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December 31, 2015December 31, 2015 leejayuk

A Sisyphean Task? Resuming Turkey-PKK Peace Talks

December 30, 2015 leejayuk

Islamic State Barbarians Holding over 3,000 Yazidis: Syria is on the Frontline against ISIS

December 29, 2015 leejayuk

Regional Nations Opposed to Obama’s National Security Slant Aimed at Venezuela

December 27, 2015 leejayuk

UK Investigation Prompts Visa Ban for Muslim Brotherhood Members

December 26, 2015 leejayuk

Cameroon and Darkness of Gulf Islamism and Sudan: Christianity, Sufi Strains and Takfiris

December 24, 2015 leejayuk

China’s Draft Cybersecurity Law

December 22, 2015 leejayuk

Burundi Rejects Proposed African Union “Invasion Force”

December 21, 2015 leejayuk

South Sudan: On the Brink of Renewed War

December 19, 2015 leejayuk

Europe and Takfiri Islamist Killers: Iraq, Somalia and Syria

December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 leejayuk

Syria and Terrorist Intrigues of NATO Turkey: NATO is Shaming Itself

December 17, 2015 leejayuk

Kazakhstan Looks to India, Iran for Access to the World’s Oceans

December 14, 2015 leejayuk

Mali: Peace from Below?

December 12, 2015 leejayuk

Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah Condemns Takfiri Jihadists: Afghanistan, Lebanon and Syria

December 11, 2015 leejayuk

Burundi needs Support against Internal and External Intrigues

December 9, 2015 leejayuk

Militant Islamists, Organized Crime and the Balkan Diaspora in Europe

December 9, 2015 leejayuk

NATO and Obama Continue to Allow Turkey to Plot ISIS and Sectarian Intrigues against Syria

December 6, 2015 leejayuk

Libya: NYT, Sputnik Agree with Hoekstra’s ‘Architects of Disaster’

December 5, 2015 leejayuk

Chad Rocked by Triple Sunni Islamist Suicide Attack by Boko Haram

December 2, 2015 leejayuk

Mali: Radisson Blu Hotel Attack Meant to Thwart Peace Accord

November 28, 2015 leejayuk

Sino-Nepalese Relations: Handshake Across the Himalayas

November 27, 2015 leejayuk

BND and Merkel enabled NSA to Spy on German and French Companies

November 23, 2015June 7, 2016 leejayuk

China, US, South China Sea and Russia’s Irk towards Japan: Naval Patrols should be based on Regional States

November 22, 2015 leejayuk

China and the Quiet Kingdom: An Assessment of China-Oman Relations

November 20, 2015November 20, 2015 leejayuk

Kuwait Arrests Members of ISIS Cell: Action Taken after Massacre of Shia Muslims

November 19, 2015November 20, 2015 leejayuk

Yemen and the Anti Shia Alliance Aided by Western Powers: Saudi Arabia, AQAP and ISIS

November 17, 2015 leejayuk

Kenya’s Somali North East: Devolution and Security

November 15, 2015 leejayuk

ISIS Kill Older Yazidi Women while Enslaving Younger Yazidis: Alawite and Christian Persecution

November 14, 2015 leejayuk

Islamists Slaughter at least 120 people in Paris: France on the Wrong Side of History in Libya and Syria

November 13, 2015 leejayuk

Winning the War on Polio in Pakistan

November 11, 2015 leejayuk

China, South China Sea and Statecraft: China and Self Induced US Straightjacket

November 10, 2015 leejayuk

Burundi Rejects France over Urging the UN Security Council to Meddle into its Internal Affair

November 8, 2015 leejayuk

Assassinations of Rebel-Connected Chechens Continue in Turkey

November 7, 2015 leejayuk

China and Legacy of Deng Xiaoping: Debt, Social Reforms and Next Stage needed for CCP

November 5, 2015 leejayuk

The Politics behind the Ebola Crisis

November 2, 2015 leejayuk

Russian Federation should be a Pivotal Nation for Japan: Energy, Geopolitics and US Failure

October 30, 2015 leejayuk

Disappeared: Justice Denied in Mexico’s Guerrero State

October 29, 2015 leejayuk

Yuzo Saeki and Alyse Radenovic: Emotions, Influence and Sorrow of France and Kosovo

October 28, 2015 leejayuk

Russian Federation, Syria and Centralization: Gulf and NATO States must Refrain from Interference

October 27, 2015 leejayuk

China’s Ethnic Policy Under Xi Jinping

October 24, 2015 leejayuk

ISIS Rapes Women Toward Allah

October 22, 2015 leejayuk

South Sudan and UK: Animist and Christian Area is Neglected for Male Economic Migrants

October 21, 2015 leejayuk

The Central Sahel: A Perfect Sandstorm

October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 leejayuk

NSA, Power Concentration and Industrial Espionage: Rand Paul and Edward Snowden

October 18, 2015October 18, 2015 leejayuk

Sudan Sends Troops to Yemen to Assist Saudi Arabia Coalition: Iran and Abandoned Shia

October 16, 2015 leejayuk

Parliamentary Elections Confirm Kyrgyzstan’s Pro-Russian Orientation

October 14, 2015October 15, 2015 leejayuk

US to send 300 Troops to Boost Cameroon in Fight against Boko Haram: Chad and Nigeria

October 12, 2015 leejayuk

Algeria and Its Neighbours

October 10, 2015October 15, 2015 leejayuk

Turkey Suffering because of Internal and External Policies of Erdogan and Davutoglu: Kurds and Socialists

October 9, 2015 leejayuk

China and Russia Multiply Efforts in Global Agenda-Setting

October 8, 2015October 15, 2015 leejayuk

Saudi Arabia Threatens to Supply Surface-To-Air-Missiles to Terrorists in Syria: Russia Should Play Checkmate

October 6, 2015 leejayuk

Somaliland: The Strains of Success

October 5, 2015October 15, 2015 leejayuk

Snowden says GCHQ in the UK can Obtain Total Control Over Smartphones: UK and Terrorist Ratlines

October 4, 2015 leejayuk

The New Baku International Seaport: A Nexus for the New Silk Road

October 3, 2015October 15, 2015 leejayuk

Anonymous takes on Saudi Arabia in Order to Help Ali Mohammed al-Nimr

October 2, 2015 leejayuk

UN Human Rights Chair given to Saudi Arabia: Non-Muslim Faiths Banned and Child Marriage

September 30, 2015 leejayuk

Impact of US Autistic Foreign Policies on the Balkans: Part III Kosovo and Plight of the Serbs

September 28, 2015 leejayuk

Russia, Syria, US, Gulf States and Migrant Crisis: Former Yugoslavia to Syria

September 27, 2015 leejayuk

Central African Republic: Christian Neighborhood Attacked by Muslims in Bangui

September 26, 2015 leejayuk

Islamist Killers of Secular Writers in Bangladesh now Threaten Global Murder: ISIS and Islamist Inquisition

September 23, 2015 leejayuk

Central African Republic: The roots of violence

September 21, 2015 leejayuk

Hezbollah and the Shia and Sunni Sectarian Issue: Nasrallah and the Bigger Picture

September 20, 2015 leejayuk

The Islamic State’s Uneven Trajectory in Libya

September 18, 2015 leejayuk

Myanmar’s Peace Process: A Nationwide Ceasefire Remains Elusive

September 17, 2015 leejayuk

Japan and Vietnam Strengthen Relations: China and South China Sea (East Sea)

September 13, 2015 leejayuk

Geopolitical Concerns of Turkmenistan: EU, NATO, Iran and the Russian Federation

September 10, 2015 leejayuk

Cameroon in the Shadow of Boko Haram, Gulf Powers and Sudan: Christian, Islamist and Sufi Strains

September 9, 2015 leejayuk

North Caucasus: The Challenges of Integration (IV): Economic and Social Imperatives

September 8, 2015September 8, 2015 leejayuk

Shia Houthis in Yemen Abandoned by Iran and the International Community: Feudal Sunni Monarchies

September 5, 2015 leejayuk

Indonesia’s New Counter-Terrorism Challenges

September 3, 2015 leejayuk

Islamist Boko Haram Kill 30 in Cameroon Twin Attack: Nigeria and Chad

September 2, 2015 leejayuk

Nepal: Conflict Alert

September 1, 2015 leejayuk

ISIS and the Sham of Gulf and NATO Powers: Hezbollah, Iraq and Syria

August 28, 2015 leejayuk

Mongolia’s Place in China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’

August 27, 2015 leejayuk

Deaths of Lee Rigby and Anas al-Liby: Murky Roles of MI5 and MI6 in Relation to Al-Qaeda and Islamists

August 25, 2015 leejayuk

Japanese Nikkei 225 Nosedives on Economic Uncertainty from China

August 24, 2015 leejayuk

Iraq: Conflict Alert

August 21, 2015 leejayuk

India Faces Up to Growing Islamic State Threat

August 20, 2015 leejayuk

Caucasus and Chechen Islamists Continue to Butcher in Syria: NATO Turkey and Intrigues

August 18, 2015 leejayuk

Sri Lanka Between Elections

August 16, 2015 leejayuk

Libya is Fueling Wars Based on the Intrigues of NATO and Gulf Powers: UN and War Crimes

August 10, 2015 leejayuk

Kurdish PKK States NATO Turkey is Protecting ISIS in Syria: Timidity of ISIS Towards Turkey

August 9, 2015 leejayuk

Venezuela: Unnatural Disaster

August 8, 2015 leejayuk

Saudi Arabia and UAE are Killing and Destabilizing Openly in Yemen: Western Fingerprints

August 6, 2015 leejayuk

Obama Administration Undercutting Ukraine’s Position in the Minsk Armistice Negotiations

August 4, 2015 leejayuk

ISIS Leaning Turkey at Loggerheads with America: Syria, NATO, the Kurds and Real Rogue State

August 3, 2015 leejayuk

Triumph of Diplomacy over War: Final Nuclear Deal with Iran Defeats the War Party

August 2, 2015 leejayuk

Russian Federation Kills 8 ISIS Terrorists in Ingushetia: Syria, FSB and Ticking Time Bomb

July 31, 2015 leejayuk

A Call to Formally Label ISIS Attacks on Christians, Yezidis as Genocide

July 28, 2015 leejayuk

Islamists are Butchering in Kenya and Nigeria: Indigenous Islam and Christianity must Counter Attack

July 27, 2015 leejayuk

The Libyan Political Dialogue: An Incomplete Consensus

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