Author: M Barbu

India restores full diplomatic presence in Afghanistan

India has officially restored its full diplomatic presence in Afghanistan, upgrading its Technical Mission in Kabul to the level of an embassy, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Tuesday.

The decision follows recent discussions during the visit of Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister to New Delhi, marking a renewed phase in India-Afghanistan relations. The MEA said the move reflects India’s “resolve to deepen its bilateral engagement with the Afghan side in all spheres of mutual interest.”

Turkish foreign minister, intelligence chief meet with Hamas delegation in Qatar

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (4th L) and National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Chief Ibrahim Kalin (3rd L) meet with Hamas Leadership Council Chairman Mohammed Ismail Darwish (4th R) and members of Hamas’ Political Bureau in Doha, Qatar on October 21, 2025. [Turkish Foreign Ministry – Anadolu Agency]

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin on Tuesday met with Mohammed Ismail Darwish, the head of Hamas’ Shura Council, and Hamas political bureau members in Qatar, Anadolu reports.

The meeting took place in the Qatari capital Doha, Turkish diplomatic sources said.

Further details of the talks have yet to be disclosed.

German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners

“We are charting something like the fever curve of society,” journalism professor Thomas Hestermann said of his new study, “Crime and Migration: Perception in German Media,”

which examined how the nationality and ethnicity of crime suspects has been reported since 2007.

Hestermann’s team at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg compiled their 2025 findings for the Berlin-based Mediendienst Integration, a research service for journalists that focuses on migration, integration and asylum. The results, published on Friday, are alarming: “Foreign suspects are mentioned about three times more often than their share in police statistics.”

Immigration has not raised German crime rate

Immigrants or refugees do not have a higher tendency to commit crime and there is no correlation between the proportion of immigrants in a given district and the local crime rate, according to a new analysis of the latest German crime statistics carried out by the renowned ifo institute.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood, once Egypt’s largest opposition movement and a standard-bearer for Islamist groups around the world, has been once again driven underground as Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has consolidated power.

Introduction

The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt’s oldest and largest Islamist organization, with offshoots throughout the Arab world. The Brotherhood renounced violence in the 1970s and earned popular support by providing social services such as pharmacies, hospitals, and schools.

Trump’s Next Big Deal Awaits in Africa

President Donald Trump’s reshaping of U.S. diplomacy has touched only the tip of the iceberg in Africa but the vast continent, home to more than 1.5 billion people and large shares of critical resources, has increasingly demonstrated its significance on the international stage.

We Are Not Fooled by You, Hamas

On October 13, 2025, at Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the company of US President Donald J. Trump, declared the war in Gaza over.

Oh, really? Sadly, the probability of an enduring peace with Hamas or allied Islamists appears close to zero. After all, in Netanyahu’s words, Israel is dealing with “monsters.”

«L’islamisme instaure une contre-culture patiente et méthodique en Europe!»

Selon l’essayiste et ancien agent du Service action de la DGSE, Français et Britanniques cèdent le terrain aux islamistes. Seule une riposte ferme, structurée et spirituelle, résolue à combattre l’islamisme visible et à maitriser strictement l’immigration, peut éviter un basculement sociétal tragique. Réaffirmer un projet national enraciné dans les valeurs judéo-chrétiennes et républicaines est une nécessité, selon lui.

The Future of the Illicit Captagon Drug Trade

Abstract: The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December 2024 may have disrupted large-scale production of the illicit drug captagon, but the trade has, by no means, disappeared from the black market. Instead, a new, post-Assad Syria marks a shift in this illicit trade, from state monopoly over production and trafficking to non-state entrepreneurialism in the captagon trade. The remnants of the captagon trade now lie in the hands of warlords, tribes, prominent families, armed militias, and terrorist organizations seeking to engage in captagon production and trafficking as a lucrative alternative revenue stream. With the Assad regime no longer holding a monopoly over the supply of captagon, new non-state actors are seeking to fill a vacuum both inside and outside of Syria, moving production and trafficking sites to new contested areas. The result is not an eradicated captagon trade, but a more complicated, challenging landscape for regional governments.