South africa’s navy, like much of the country, is dilapidated. Its fleet spends less than half the time on the seas than it did a decade ago. It has few working ships, a result of budget cuts by the ruling African National Congress (anc). So it makes sense that the …

A YEAR AGO, Vladimir Putin launched the first full-scale invasion of a sovereign European country since the second world war. Badly planned with badly led, badly equipped and badly motivated soldiers, Russia’s offensive stalled against Ukraine’s courageous resistance. The defenders were inspired by Volodymyr Zelensky, led with military flair, and …

The outcome of the conflict will determine the West’s authority THE OFFICES of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), NATO’s command centre near Mons in Belgium, are the opposite of imposing. Instead of granite and marble, the low-ceilinged corridors are decked out with plasterboard and tiled carpeting. Four-star generals prefer …

Over the past year, two understated but dramatic shifts in US strategy have taken place: the United States no longer seeks to prioritize cooperation with Russia and no longer expects to forestall greater Russia-China cooperation. Support for Ukraine becomes critical as part of an overall strategy designed to degrade Russian …

U džamijama, koje su u sistemu Islamske zajednice (IZ) Srbije, danas se održavaju izbori. Biraju se džamijski odbori. To je prvi krug izbora na svim nivoima u IZ Srbije. Prema utvrđenoj dinamici, izbori će po nivoima, biti održavani svakih nedelju dana i biće završeni do 23.marta, kada počinje muslimanski mesec …

Privođenje pripadnika ultradesničarske grupe „Narodne patrole“ iz Bačke Palanke, Dejana Bobočeka, kod koga je, prema saopštenju MUP, pronađena puška sa optičkim nišanom i municijom i za kojeg se pretpostavlja da je krenuo na miting ispred Predsedništva Srbije protiv izdaje Kosova, Dejan Mirović, profesor Univerziteta u Kosovskoj Mitrovici i jedan od …

Recently a new wave of deadly acts of terrorism in Afghanistan, and from Afghanistan into Pakistan, has erupted again. To understand its raison d’être in general and the focus of its violence on Pakistan and Afghanistan a critical review of the major political upheaval in Pakistan continuing since about a …

The outbreak of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 attracted a great deal of attention from the international community, as well as from the public in the Muslim world. This was not surprising since it was the bloodiest war in Europe after World War II. After the victory of …

Pakistan witnessed a gruesome suicide bombing in a mosque on 30 January 2023 in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Over 100 people were killed and more than 220 wounded. Omar Mukaram Khorasani, the head of the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a splinter group of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.1 The …

More than six months after the United States killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan, leadership of the terror group appears to have quietly passed to his heir apparent in Iran. A new report from the United Nations, based on member state intelligence, concludes Saif al-Adel …