China’s step into the maelstrom of the Middle East
The Middle East has a knack for sucking external powers into its conflicts. China’s ventures into the region have shown how difficult it is to...
India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party promises free Jerusalem trip to Christians...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (12:25 PM) - The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the ruling party of India, is trying to woo Indian Christians into...
Chinese extradition request puts crackdown on Uyghurs in the spotlight
A Chinese demand for the extradition of 11 Uyghurs from Malaysia puts the spotlight on China’s roll-out of one of the world's most intrusive...
Asia’s dark underbelly: Conflicts threaten long-term stability and development
A host of conflicts, stretching across the Asian landmass from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and northwest China, are likely to spark violence,...
Tackling Pakistani madrassas An uphill struggle
This is an edited version of remarks by James M. Dorsey at the launch in Islamabad on 30 January 2018 of ‘The Role of...
Kidnapping and ant-Shiite rhetoric stirs Malaysian debate about Saudi-inspired ultra-conservatism
Allegedly kidnapped, forty-three-year old Malaysian activist Amri Che Mat, a foreign exchange trader and mountain climber, has not been heard of since he went missing...
Chinese engineer’s disappearance takes on geopolitical significance
Thirty-six-year-old Chinese engineer Pingzhi Liu went missing almost a month ago. It took Pakistani authorities three weeks to classify Mr. Liu's disappearance as a...
Rebuffing US warmongering, North and South Korea to hold official talks
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:20 AM) - Despite the ongoing aggressive tone between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), it seems...
Russia: ISIS has over 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, more coming every...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:30 AM) - According to Zamir Kabulov, special envoy and head of the Middle East department in the Russian Foreign Ministry, there...
Time to mop up: Afghan army gears up for large offensive...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (01:00 PM) - The armed forces of Afghanistan are gearing up for a large-scale offensive against the ISIS presence in the north...
