Four days after India conducted “surgical” military strikes inside Pakistan-held Kashmir, South Asia’s rival nuclear-armed states continue to teeter on the brink of war. There have been hours-long artillery and gun-fire exchanges across the Line of Control (LoC) that separates Indian- and Pakistani-held Kashmir each night since India sent troops and helicopters into Pakistan and…
Amid rising Pakistani-Indian tensions over the disputed Kashmir region, Indian generals are reportedly calling on the government to approve a sustained six-month campaign to destroy “terrorist infrastructure” on the Pakistani side of the de-facto border. “We have to look at a sustained campaign. The terror network is on the back foot, but to really achieve…
The United States military is a global force, with bases spanning six continents and at least 74 countries, with over 150,000 US servicemen serving there. By comparison, France has bases in 10 countries, and the UK has bases in seven. America is currently engaged in five wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen. Its forces are also…
“What Russia is sponsoring and doing [in Syria] is not counter-terrorism it is barbarism” Samantha Power, US Representative to the United Nations The US representative to the United Nations, Ambassador «Ranting Sam» Samantha Power, accused the Russian and Syrian governments of «barbarism», claiming Moscow or Damascus had attacked an unarmed United Nations humanitarian convoy delivering…
After mass protests in Sonzhu province, the location of the deployment for the American missile defense system has been changed. It is not just the residents of the province who insisted on it, worrying both for their health, rightly arguing that the radar that is located close to a residential neighborhood will affect the environment,…
Recent protests held across North America and Europe staged by supporters of armed militants in Syria have staged scenes in Western streets eerily similar to those featured in the photos and videos of the US-European funded “Syrian Civil Defence” also known as the “White Helmets.” Saudi state media, Al Arabiya English would report in an…
