Forced Unity or Forced Separation Doesn’t Work, President Barzani on Kurdistan...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani discussed Kurdish independence, the fate of areas outside the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) administration and Erbil-Baghdad...
Destroying Mosul’s Great Mosque: Islamic State’s symbolic war to the end
Destroying Mosul's Great Mosque: Islamic State's symbolic war to the end
Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Deakin University
On June 29 2014...
Indonesia: 2 Buddhists, 4 Muslims Caned in Aceh for Violating Sharia...
Under a scorching sun on Friday, two ethnic Chinese men became the first Buddhists in Indonesia’s Aceh province to be whipped for violating its...
Saudi rift with Qatar exposes growing division in the anti-Iran alliance
Saudi rift with Qatar exposes growing division in the anti-Iran alliance
Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Gulf University for Science and Technology
This is the worst diplomatic crisis in...
Deconstructing Yogi’s Beef politics
The crackdown on illegal abattoirs was one of the first decisions taken by Yogi Adityanath soon after taking over as Chief Minister of the...
Russia wooing Syrian Kurds to Save Assad’s Regime
Russia has been pushing for the inclusion of Syrian Kurdish parties, particularly the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD), in negotiations aimed at ending the...
Egypt’s Revolution: Between Lost Hopes and Growing Apathy
The retelling of historical narratives requires someone with a good knack for storytelling, a silver tongue, if you will. The way you deliver a...
ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater...
ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil
Mohammadbagher Forough, Leiden University
Iran experienced its first major ISIS attack on June 7,...
Uniform Civil Code is part of Hindu nationalist agenda to ‘discipline’...
Mumbai: While equating "Uniform Civil Code" with beef ban and building Ram Temple in Ayodhya, renowned feminist scholar and writer Nivedita Menon in a...
How Saudi Arabia and Iran are using religion as a bait...
In an upmarket suburb of Senegal’s seaside capital, a branch ofIran’s Al-Mustafa University teaches Senegalese students Shi’ite Muslim theology, among other subjects. The branch...