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Sajad Abedi Considering the weapons and skills of the Central Asian armies that have weapons and skills of the former Soviet Union, the forces of these countries are likely to face more severe insurgent resistance. It should be kept in mind that they cannot provoke all people. At …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs Past relations between the two nations: Qatar is a country located in the southwest of Asia, in the east of the Arabian Peninsula and southern part of the Persian Gulf. Qatar is in fact a small peninsula surrounded …

Giancarlo Elia Valori The economic data linked to the mass infection by Covid-19 is already very alarming. The Italian public health system, along with many other primary sectors of public spending, has already bore the brunt of budgetary restrictions. Currently, the deficit we record in relation to the …

Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler* We are living in times where people throughout the world are divided. And yet, regardless of political persuasion, there are certain points of agreement: corruption in many governments has reached unprecedented levels; ethics and integrity have given way to deal-making and …

Eric Zuesse    On February 26th, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s President, told his Islamist political party that Idlib, which is the most heavily jihadist of all of Syria’s provinces and the province where Syria had been sending jihadists who had been defeated but not killed by the Syrian army …

Dr. Arshad Khan The photo of the U.S. President and the First Lady standing in front of the iconic Taj Mahal is as expected of a visit to India.  It is also emblematic of Muslim rule from the late 12th century until the 18th when the Mughal Empire …

Giancarlo Elia Valori The Turkish Secret Service, namely Milli Istihbarat Teşkilati (MIT), was founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1925. However, only in 1985 – in a phase of great transformation of Turkish domestic policy – the Service was given its current name, the National Intelligence Office, and …

Giancarlo Elia Valori “Artificial Intelligence” is a terminology specifically invented in 1956 by John McCarthy and concerns the ability to make appropriate generalizations quickly, but based on an inevitably limited set of data. The wider the scope and the faster conclusions are drawn, and with minimal information, the …

 Giancarlo Elia Valori As is well known, Kim Jong-Un imposed precise time and political limits on negotiations with the USA by the end of 2019. Moreover, at that stage, the US intelligence community was discussing North Korea’s adoption of a new short-range missile, which would make its appearance …