Iranian drones over Kyiv are an omen of new global threats
The world is scrambling to respond to manifestations of increasingly symbiotic Russian-Iranian coordination that flout the full spectrum of international norms and fundamentally undermine...
Indonesia’s Terrorists: Weak but Still Active
Although terror attacks have decreased in recent years and major groups such as ISIS have been destroyed in their home country, radical organizations in...
Making Sense of the Taliban’s Counterterrorism Assurances
Two years on from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan’s neighbors are increasingly concerned that their return to power has emboldened terrorist groups and...
Europe’s Quagmire: The Prospect of a Long and Costly War
As time passes and Russia consolidates its defense positions in the territories of Ukraine that it occupies, the prospects of a swift victory are...
New survey shows strong support for armed resistance if Nordic countries are attacked
In a recent survey carried out by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), more than two in three of 1,000 adults in Norway said...
Report: Belarus hackers target foreign diplomats with help of local ISPs
Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers....
Military coups in Africa: here’s what determines a return to civilian rule
Slightly more than two years after Niger’s first peaceful handover of power from one civilian president to another, the military seized power in July...
Swedish police reveal consequences of Quran-burning stunts
Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands now top the priority lists of several terrorist groups, Magnus Sjoberg, the head of the counterterrorism department at the...
Taliban Prepare Suicide Bombers in Water Dispute with Iran
In mid-May, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a warning to the Taliban: honor Afghanistan’s water-supply agreement or face the consequences. A well-known Taliban figure offered a...
Far Right Extremist Movements Fighting in Ukraine: Implications for Post-conflict Europe
The Russian war in Ukraine is resetting global affairs beyond Europe, as well as creating new extremist landscapes. Several far-right movements mobilized and delivered...