Despite defeats, the Islamic State remains unbroken and defiant around the world
Jan 29, 2020 06:50 am UTC| Insights & Views
In a series of bloody campaigns from 2014 to 2019, a multinational military coalition drove the Islamic State group, often known as ISIS, out of much of the Iraqi and Syrian territory that the strict militant theocracy had...
America has a unique 300 year old view of free trade – UK must recognise this to strike a deal
Jan 28, 2020 08:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
With Boris Johnson hailing parliaments vote towards Britain leaving the EU on January 31, there is a general consensus among the countrys leaders that there will be an intimate trading relationship with the US after...
China's approach to peace in Africa is different. How and why
Jan 28, 2020 08:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
China has steadily increased its participation in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations in Africa since its first mission in 1989, when the UN monitored the independence of Namibia from South Africa. Its funding and...
Libya: why enforcing an arms embargo is so hard
Jan 27, 2020 03:18 am UTC| Insights & Views
A group of countries involved in the ongoing civil war in Libya agreed at a meeting in Berlin on January 19 to uphold a UN arms embargo and stop international meddling in the countrys conflict. Germany wants to find a...
The US-Iran conflict and what it means for Indonesia
Jan 22, 2020 08:00 am UTC| Insights & Views
The bitter US-Iran relationship has been going on for decades, but the tension between the two countries has started to escalate to a critical point after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the...
What Iranians think of the US and their own government
Jan 18, 2020 11:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
After the Trump administration killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike on Jan. 3, anti-American protests in Iran subsequently spiked, with thousands mourning Soleimanis passing. As someone who...
In Iraq, Soleimani assassination complicates soft power battle between US and Iran
Jan 18, 2020 11:40 am UTC| Insights & Views
When thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Iraqs streets on January 10, they were expressing anger at the explosion of foreign interference in their countrys affairs in early 2020. Keep your war away, one...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects