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A third of US Presidents between 1776 to 1974 demonstrated symptoms of clinically significant depression, bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse while...
There’s a reason to be sceptical about Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace. Efforts to end the fighting in 1993, 1995-1996, and 2013-2015 all led...
A suicide bombing ripped through Pakistan’s Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary last week. It would soon celebrate 200 years of Sayyid Ahmad’s triumph...
The far-right AfD becoming the second-largest formation in Germany's Reichstag raises serious questions about the growing challenges to the democratic...
From swathed privilege in apartheid South Africa to today’s US power corridors, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel laid the roots of Donald Trump’s radical...
It's unclear when Mohammad Usman, a former resident of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was incarcerated. But being an anti-India jihadist no longer...
The Lalit Maken assassination case set the template for charges of police mishandling of evidence and poor investigation, which have stained many...
For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs secure and fair access to...
The figure of the Pakistani immigrant sexual groomer is real—but also serves as a pretext for failing to address toxic youth masculinity and deep...
Like other lone-wolf killers, the narrative around Shamsud-Din Jabbar is that he was seduced by online Islamist propaganda. While this is entirely...
As geopolitical competition intensifies, Trump is determined to exercise more direct, physical control over America’s near neighbourhood.
Sanctions had first been imposed on the NDC in 1998 by Bill Clinton. And they were waived after 9/11 to enable counter-terrorism cooperation with...
Elected on a program of Right-wing populism, Yoon stoked militarism to consolidate power. His opponent was repeatedly prosecuted. South Korea’s...
Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani—brother to Jalaluddin, uncle to his heir Sirajuddin, and a key figure in the network responsible for over 1,000 suicide...
Even though Tahrir al-Sham has promised to protect minorities, and to crush transnational jihadist groups in Syria, exactly what comes next is...
Following 9/11, former first lady of the US, Laura Bush, said, ‘The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.’...
Members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham—or Commission for the Liberation of the Levant—brushed aside the Army’s 46 Regiment and captured Aleppo for the...
The Arakan Army is now estimated to control eight-tenths of the province of Rakhine, raising speculation the region could be the first to be...
Even if the cost of securing democracies against espionage is high, the price to be paid for not doing so could be catastrophic.
There was little Shia-Sunni conflict in the pre-colonial era. In early 20th century, the struggle for political power sharpened the boundaries,...
Each wave of people arriving in America has been decried as unassimilable—only for them to establish themselves as agents of economic growth.
The new jihadists in J&K have harried Indian forces, staged a series of ambushes, and now begun to target Indian civilian infrastructure projects.
Trump’s rise has meant a hollowing out of the unstated social agreement on which all democracy rests. Even if he loses this election, repairing...
The story of an aircraft that came down in 1981 helps us understand the forces that are acting to restrain both countries, even as their leaders...
The real issue is where India’s frontier with China lies, not a few kilometres of ancient trading routes. A solution to this needs deep reflection...
The alleged plot to kill Khalistan propagandist and lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun had all the comic elements of an old-fashioned Bollywood cop movie.
India is learning that lesser nations must pay a price for invoking the principles that govern the great.
Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanawi's rebuttal of missionary critiques of Islam profoundly influenced Ahmad Deedat, a South African cleric. The...
Election after election has seen Kashmir’s people demonstrate that, like other Indians, they seek a future shaped by democratic rights and norms
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of being drawn into another attritional war with Hezbollah. His commanders they are...
The party had painted over its Marxist red with the colours of Sinhala ethnic nationalism. Tamils and Muslims were consigned to the margins of the...
Does the debate change the opinions of voters as it famously did in 1960? The answer is about the changing role of image in American politics, not...
Mass immigration built the multi-ethnic societies that powered an unprecedented period of global prosperity. That era could be one of the things...
Twenty-five years on, India is debating whether the producers of a Netflix movie should have mentioned the Hindu pseudonyms used by IC814...
For criminal cartels of all kinds, the casino cities on China’s peripheries offer security and immunity. In Kings Romans Casino, prison-like...
Across the world, though, organised crime cartels are continuing to use free, easily available tech tools, and the patience of some governments is...
Earlier this week, gangs of dacoits operating in the badlands between the Koh-i Sulaiman mountains, the Indus and the Cholistan desert, ambushed...
There’s no telling if the suspect held for the Kolkata case is guilty, but the Lodha case reveals the criminal justice system just doesn’t care...
Too much pressure against Imran Khan could end up opening deep fault lines of class and ideology inside Pakistan's armed forces.
Fascism’s progress in Europe and the US means the UK’s handling of the violence it now faces will be watched carefully across the world.
Bangladesh’s political life isn’t an irreducible confrontation between secularism and Islamism. Like in Pakistan, Islam has been the language of...
English jihadists such as Andrew Rowe, Saajid Badat, and Muhammad Bilal spread out across the world. UK intelligence paid attention only after...
Through the 1990s, the Jamaat-e-Islami had gleefully replaced its political sword with the jihadist gun.
The question America needs to be urgently asking itself isn’t why Thomas Crook wanted to kill Trump. It’s what needs to be done to keep guns out of...