Int’l Affairs

The contemporary world is going through a global power shift. There are debates all around as to what would be the nature of the next phase of the world order. There’s a wide agreement that a global power transition is underway. Unipolarity — the US dominating the world — is giving way and a new global order is fast emerging. …

After terrorist attacks on Faisal Airbase, Karachi Airport and Badhaber Camp, valiant soldiers of our security forces and Special Services Group not only brought the situation under control but also sent all the attackers to hell. The attack on India’s Pathankot Airbase has a striking similarity with the abovementioned ones and its evidence is coming to light. Attacks on these …

Russian airstrikes against ISIS — and in support of the Assad regime — in Syria do not resonate well with the United States that is desirous of defeating the outfit but sees Assad as a destabilizer of Syrian politics. Moreover, Iran has been traditionally supportive of the Assad regime; in contrast to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE who form …

The year 2015 was marked by violence and war. The most prevalent story in the US media throughout the year was ISIS. The Paris attacks, mass shootings, police brutality, terrorism, the Charleston massacre and the refugee crisis were also among the top 10 stories of the year. The US, as the world’s leading military power, played an important role in …

The nature of the war in Afghanistan has shifted dramatically in recent months. While the US and Nato continue to be actively involved in the country — their strategic objectives having changed very little since the Bush administration launched the war in 2001 — the complexion of the battlefield, and the parties actively engaged in the war, has changed significantly. …

The Israel-Palestine conflict has long been calling for a peaceful resolution but till this day neither the United Nations nor the world’s superpower have done something solid to allay Palestinian concerns and to hold the Israel accountable for the crimes atrocities it had committed against the innocent Palestinians. At present, the whole Middle East is burning in the fire of …

In early 2014, the Islamic State (IS), an organization then known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), swept across northwestern Iraq while simultaneously expanding the territory under its control in eastern Syria. It is led by members of what used to be al-Qaeda in Iraq and incorporates Iraqi Sunnis who hold grievances against the Shia-dominated government …

Why the Continent Fails Minority Groups What is it that draws thousands of young Europeans to jihadism and violence? What is it that has led 4,000 to travel to Syria to fight for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS)? And what is it that leads European citizens to engage in barbarous carnage such as those witnessed in Paris? The conventional answer …

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism. The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on US unilateral action. With the removal of this constraint on Washington, neoconservatives declared their agenda of US world hegemony. America was now the “sole superpower,” the “unipower,” that could act without restraint anywhere in …