Opinion

You don’t hear national security leaders speak of ISIS like an enemy to be beaten. They talk about the terror group like a chronic illness in the global body politic. ASPEN, Colorado — Officially, the Obama administration is still committed to defeating ISIS. But at […]

The latest issue of Dabiq, the ISIS propaganda magazine, mocks Westerners for being too P.C. to fully embrace religious violence. The Bible is filled with “clear references to violently applying the Law of the Lord,” the author argues, but “Christians have cast aside such commandments […]

El presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdogan ha reaccionado con ira a las declaraciones del Director de la Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia de EEUU, James Clapper, que criticó la purga de generales llevada a cabo por Erdogan tras el intento de golpe de estado en Turquía. […]

Libya still remains in a state of civil war. The economy of the country is in ruins, the Libyan society is disintegrated. Pravda.Ru talked about the current state of affairs in the war-torn country, as well as about the need for Russia’s presence there, in […]

There is ample circumstantial evidence that Russia is interfering in the U.S. presidential election in order to boost Donald Trump, who not only displays reverence for Russian President Vladimir Putin but also has advocated policies that would pay big dividends for Moscow (e.g. backing away […]

The Turkish government’s crackdown after a military coup attempt widened into a sweeping purge on Monday, cutting a swath through the security services and reaching deeply into the government bureaucracy and the political and business classes. The sheer numbers being detained or dismissed were stunning: […]

Whenever they appear, black swans are always unsettling. As defined by the Lebanese-American author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans are unexpected, hard-to-predict events that don’t fit the understood flow of history. In just the last week, there have been three. In Turkey, the first attempted […]

The US has bolstered monitoring to avoid abuse of humanitarian aid in Syria in light of previous fraud in Turkey, according to US State Department. The United States has bolstered monitoring capabilities to avoid abuse of humanitarian aid in Syria in light of previous fraud […]