There was one word missing from Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani’s speech at the “Heart of Asia” conference at Amritsar concerning Afghan security and Pakistan. So let me say it: ChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChina The last few months have seen Ghani and the US government working assiduously to construct a “light at the end of the tunnel” narrative foretelling…
If the sultan of Mysore had had a bit more luck, George Washington might be known as the Haider Ali of North America. As the ruler of Mysore, a kingdom in what is now southwestern India, Haider fought a series of wars with Great Britain in the latter half of the 18th century, at the…
A 10-year-old schoolgirl who suffered burns to 60 percent of her body told police two unidentified men in a Jharkhand village, eastern India, poured kerosene on her, set her on fire and threw in a dried well for resisting rape. Police have registered attempted rape and murder charges against two men who are missing, and…
“Supporting national armies” is the slogan Egypt is using to promote its policy on issues across the region, first and foremost in Syria. This became evident when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced his country’s support for the Syrian army during a Nov. 22 TV interview with Portuguese news channel RTP. Two days later, on Nov. 24, Lebanese newspaper…
US President Barack Obama has ordered a waiver for restrictions on military aid for foreign forces and others in Syria, deeming it “essential to the national security interests” of the US to allow exceptions from provisions in the Arms Export Control Act. https://cdn.rt.com/files/2016.12/584a3726c3618881628b469a.mp4 A White House press release Thursday announced that foreign fighters in Syria supporting…
History speaks of the emergence of many great empires. Some of them lasted for centuries and some of them for less than that. The durations of these empires related to many factors, but one of the most important factors was the relation between the people and rulers of these empires. In the Arab region, especially …
