Middle East

  • Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims: A Decade of Stateless Suffering and International Indifference

    It has been over eight years since the skies over Rakhine state in Myanmar were lit with the smouldering fires of Rohingya Muslim villages, as the military razed hundreds of settlements, sexually assaulted women, and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homeland, dangerously crossing the Naf River into Bangladesh in dinghies. All this happened…

  • Review of Ahmed Rashid’s “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia”

    As the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2021 after two decades of fighting the Afghan Taliban following the 2001 invasion, it ironically enabled the same Islamist group to regain control of the country. The Taliban has since doubled down on re-implementing its ideological project in the country. The endurance of this group,…

  • Russia-Taliban Relations: A Strategic Embrace or a Risky Gamble?

    On July 3rd, Russia announced its decision to formally recognise the Afghan Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) regime as the country’s legitimate government. This marks a significant event nearly four years after the Taliban returned to power, coinciding with the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August 2021. For the Taliban’s…

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