Paris attack is Europe’s security nightmare
The series of coordinated attacks on multiple civilian locations in Paris on Friday night has long been the stuff of nightmares for European security officials. Ever since the Mumbai attacks of 2008 —...
View ArticleThe lessons from Paris we will not learn
There is something very horrific about the image of several armed men in an enclosed space shooting at people who are not even their enemy by conventional descriptions. What happened at Paris has...
View ArticleStrange pattern in Bangladesh killings
It is a mystery why foreigners have been shot at while Bangladeshis have been attacked with sharp weapons.
View ArticleTurkey’s inexorable descent to extremism
Turkey is viewed by the developing countries and Muslim world as an advanced industrialised country in line with Western democracy ...
View ArticleBlack and white aren’t just the colors of Islamic State’s flag
One thing President Barack Obama got right in his recent address from the Oval Office: his analysis of “what ISIL is hoping for.” As he said, Islamic State wants to define “this fight as a war between...
View ArticleThe world, as it was in 2015
There is always a dash of the emotional, a pinch of the nostalgic, which takes over your sensibilities with the end of a year. And a year is but time that loses itself in space in ways decreed by...
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