The Palestine-Israel conflict has been one of the most interminable diplomatic crises of modern times. Every US President has vowed to put an end to the everlasting dissension and reach an overarching solution. Joe Biden, the President-Elect of the United States, is no different. With the legal battles over alleged voter fraud over, the inauguration […]
There are several global developments jostling for the world’s attention right now—the upcoming inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, Britain’s exit from the European Union, a worrying hack of U.S. government systems, and the race to administer coronavirus vaccines across the planet. Amid these major news stories, the 8-month-old military standoff in the Himalayas between […]
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to attend the 50th Independence Day of Bangladesh scheduled to be held in March of 2021. Patriotic Bangladeshis at home and abroad strongly demand to the government of Bangladesh not to invite any Indian military and civilians to attend an auspicious event of Bangladesh which is written […]
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which puts a cap on the number of strategic nuclear weapons the US and Russia still control, is needed to be renewed on 5 February 2021 to remain in force. The election of Joe Biden as the US President has brought hope that the New START will […]
“How would you feel if your home was bombed by missiles?” a female survivor of a United States drone strike in Somalia told me and my Somali colleagues at an internally displaced person (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu earlier this year, for a mini-documentary produced for Byline Times. “Both night and day, they [the drone […]
For over six months now, China has occupied more than 1,000 square kilometers of Indian claimed territory in Ladakh. The People’s Liberation Army soldiers had not only killed 20 Indian soldiers and injured nearly a hundred in a skirmish in June, they have also been sitting on strategically significant locations at the Line of Actual […]
The Nagorno-Karabakh region is witnessing the largest military operations since the 1990s. Back then, Armenian separatists waged a full-fledged war against Azerbaijan to occupy this region and its surrounding seven districts. Recent clashes in the Nagorno-Karabakh started on 27 September as the Azerbaijani army decided to respond to several Armenian provocations. The tensions were already […]