INDONESIAN SECURITY MINISTER STABBED BY SUSPECTED TERRORIST

Photo: Indonesia’s Security Minister Wiranto, source: Wikipedia Stramed,  Indonesia’s Security Minister Wiranto was attacked by a knife-wielding man with suspected links to the Islamic State terrorist group, the police said. Wiranto,…

THE EXECUTIONS IN BAHRAIN

Photo: Ali al-Arab and Ahmed al-Malali, source: ECDHR.org Stramed,  Last-minute pressure exerted by rights groups failed to prevent the Bahraini government from executing three men on July 27. Two of…

LOOKING AT KABUL AND SEEING SAIGON

Photo: US Troops, source: REUTERS     Stramed,  Following several months of negotiations in Doha between U.S. officials and Taliban leaders, an agreement on bringing the war in Afghanistan to…

18 YEARS AFTER THE 9/11 ATTACKS, WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF AL-QAEDA?

Photo: 9/11 tragedy, source: Carmen Taylor/AP Stramed,  Eighteen years after the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the group has evolved and looks much different today than it did…

APPROACHING A DANGEROUS PRECIPICE IN SOUTH ASIA

Photo: Jaysh-e-Muhamma, source: Financialexpress.com Stramed,   When two nuclear-armed rivals with a history of armed conflict decide to recall their respective ambassadors, as India and Pakistan did following a suicide bombing…