While geopolitical events over the years have resulted in increased scrutiny against the Xinjiang province, both years of US soft war strategies and the proliferation of separatist extremism encouraged by their allies have been largely omitted from these narratives–shaped around the usual sanctions driven..…

Apart from Shiites accounting for about two-thirds of Iraqi and the government is Shiite and pro- Iran, Iraq is also the importer of Iranian goods. ... For instance, following February 11,1979 Iranian Revolution that brought to end the reign of the pro- American Shah Mohammad Reza..…

He supported Arab Iraq in its war against non-Arab Iran and, in September 1983, he imposed Shari’a law on Sudan.  ... Although the PAIC would soon gain infamy as a meeting place for terrorists, at the 1991 congress Turabi pulled off a diplomatic coup by bringing together intelligence..…

These are from Middle East, Southeast Asia, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, you name it... ..…

Sure outliers exist, but for every Kosovo and Libya, there is also Uganda, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Guatemala, Timor, Bosnia, Cambodia, Burundi, the Congo, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, China, Algeria, Angola, North Korea, Syria, Georgia, Yemen, Kurdistan, Guinea-Bissau, Central..…

Iraq: US Move on IRGC to Destabilize Region  . . . . . . . . Iran Curbs Oil Production in Flood-Hit Areas for Environmental Concerns . ..…

At the same time, it is clear that for now the margins of expressions are quite restrained, and that the political experience of Rojava is still far from a functioning democratic polity in which media can play a proper watchdog role. . [1] This article is based on an internal report compiled by Enrico De..…