Established In: 2000
Established By: Unknown
Also Known As: JeM
Country Of Origin: Pakistan
Leaders: Maulana Masood Azhar, Abdul Rauf Asghar
Key Members: Maulana Masood Azhar, Abdul Rauf Asghar
Operational Area: Pakistan, India
Number Of Members: 10,000+
Involved In: Armed attacks, Suicide bomb attacks
Established In: 1985
Established By: Fazlur Rehman Khalil
Also Known As: HUM
Country Of Origin: Pakistan
Leaders: Fazlur Rehman Khalil
Key Members: Fazlur Rehman Khalil, Farooq Kashmiri
Operational Area: Pakistan, India
Number Of Members: Unknown
Involved In: Kidnappings, Hijacking,
Analysis: The Kurdistan Democratic Party’s unprecedented boycott of long-overdue parliamentary elections leaves the semi-autonomous region in uncertain waters.
Voters in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region will cast ballots on 10 June for the regional parliament for the first time since 2018, but a major force will be missing from the ballot.
The international police action “Black guy 2” is ongoing throughout BiH, in which several people have been arrested so far, including some of the high-ranking police officials, who are linked to the “Tito and Dino” drug cartel.
The Serbian community in Kosovo suffered the biggest blow from the armed conflict in Banjska, from which it is still recovering. While he is recovering, the citizens are leaving, Ana Marija Ivković, journalist of Radio Kontakt plus from Kosovska Mitrovica, tells Danas.
Latest Developments
Hezbollah claimed to target numerous areas in northern Israel on April 21. The Iranian-backed terrorist group told pro-Iranian media outlet Al-Mayadeen that it struck the northern Israeli communities of Shomera, Shlomi, Metulla, and Hanita. In many of these communities, sirens warned of incoming fire on April 20 and 21, but no injuries have been reported. The terrorist group also said it used an anti-tank guided missile to target an Israeli military Humvee in Israel.
La guerre en mer Rouge
\ttaque sur une artère du commerce mondial
Avec le canal de Suez, la mer Rouge est l’une des plaques tournantes économiques du commerce mondial. Plus de 15% du commerce mondial passe par ce goulet d’étranglement géographique. Le choc a été d’autant plus grand en Occident lorsque, à partir du 19 novembre 2023, les combattants du mouvement Ansar Allah (partisans de Dieu), également connus en Occident sous le nom de Houthis, ont commencé à tirer sur les navires d’Israël et des pays occidentaux alliés.
World events serve as a stage of constant search for how best to construct and maintain society, which is an underlying theme of some decades ago found in the works of Herbert Marcuse, 1898–1979, German-American philosopher of prominent fame during the 1960s considered an intellectual giant of his time.
Charles Reitz, widely recognized as a scholar of Herbert Marcuse, has brought to life his ideology for a prosperous healthy society, proposing that “nature is an ally” in his book The Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse, 284 pgs. Daraja Press, 2023.
Book Club: Kurdistan+100 reimagines Kurdish state struggles through a prism of futurism, offering a space for freer Kurdish expressions and possibilities.
Being Kurdish outside of Kurdish society is hard. From complete ignorance in the West to being viewed as a proxy militia in SWANA, from hearing the linguicide of the Kurdish language in Iran to seeing cultural and political repression in Turkey — to be Kurdish is to be steeped in pain and ostracisation.
Executive Summary
Rather than a new phenomenon, competition, and hence the possibility of conflict, between states – as well as cooperation – has existed as long as states have interacted. While the particularities of great power competition have ebbed and flowed over the past decades, the twenty-first century has seen a return to “normal” as competition between states has translated into open conflict, such as the war in Ukraine, while interdependence due to globalization, renders inter-state conflicts, as well as strategic rivalries, increasingly complex. Even as the US is redefining its engagement with the world and the US and China are geopolitical facts no country can ignore, other countries will not necessarily be constrained to a binary, fully aligned with one over the other. Rather, states, including throughout the Global South, will likely pursue policies that still maximize their strategic national autonomy within the constraints of their respective realities.