Category: World

Much of Libya’s civil war has focused on control of the nations’ airports. Why have rival factions concentrated on securing Libya’s airports? What is the Haftar offensive’s endgame in securing Libya’s last functioning airport? Khalifa Belqasim Haftar is a Libyan military officer and the head of the Libyan National Army, currently engaged….

Civilian casualties from the Afghan conflict dropped by almost a quarter in the first three months of the year, amid freezing winter weather and a sharp fall in the number of suicide attacks. Is the ongoing negotiation directly impacting a change in Afghanistan’s complex domestic security issues? The War in Afghanistan followed the United…

Russia plans to invest over US$11 billion in the North Sea Route in a move that could have significant economic and strategic ramifications.

Frustrated European leaders abandoned hope that Britain would sort its departure from the European Union anytime soon, slapping aside a proposal by Prime Minister Theresa May for a short delay and offering to extend Brexit until October 31, 2019. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave…

China fights a swine flu epidemic as economic indicators continue to demonstrate a downturn.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has been in talks with opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, to see if they can come up with a common approach to Brexit. She is also asking European leaders for another Brexit delay, until the end of June, but will they agree? On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted…

Hong Kong’s Occupy movement leaders are convicted for causing a public nuisance, in the latest move by the Chinese sponsored government to stifle freedoms of speech and expression.

US intends to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist, organization, a move condemned by Tehran. Iran’s most powerful security organisation, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was set up to protect the country’s clerical ruling system after its 1979…

Maldives gives an overwhelming majority to incumbent President Solih’s MDP, in a rebuke of authoritarianism, China’s policies in the archipelago and nationalist politics. The Maldives, an island-nation in the Indian Ocean, after a period of political instability and strife, has recently…