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By Michael Cruickshank At just after 8:20 in the morning on the 9th of August, a bomb dropped from a Saudi-led Coalition plane struck a busy market area in the center of Dahyan, in...
By David A. Graham, The Atlantic The president’s decision to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance has drawn fire even from figures like Robert Gates and David Petraeus, who have avoided criticizing him. …read more...
By Natasha Bertrand, The Atlantic The FBI’s disciplinary office had recommended Peter Strzok be suspended for two months but was overruled by the bureau’s deputy director. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)
By Colin Clark Flying out past the first island chain, China’s air force is undergoing “the most comprehensive restructure in its history to become a force capable of conducting complex joint operations,” according to...
By Robert Evans On 4 August 2018, hundreds of far-right activists with Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys convened in Portland, Oregon. The rally was in support of Senate candidate Joey Gibson, the founder...
By Nick Waters Although the Syrian government and its allies has clearly gained the upper hand in the Syrian Civil War, the conflict is still a very long way from being over. Large areas...
By Nick Waters Although the Syrian government and its allies has clearly gained the upper hand in the Syrian Civil War, the conflict is still a very long way from being over. Large areas...
By Noor Nahas Following an escalation in attacks opposition controlled southern Idlib, cluster munitions have seen increasing use by Syrian government forces on areas across the frontline. In the fourth day of strikes and...
By Jacqueline Westermann, Malcolm Davis and James Brorson The world Is the Caspian Sea a lake or a sea? For decades this question caused dispute and deadlock between the countries on its shores. On...
By Ian Bloomfield There’s been a lot of focus on the security arrangements for the My Health Record system. Most of the commentary has been about protecting the data, how secure the platform is...
By Colin Clark WASHINGTON: If China and Russia’s spies have been doing their jobs well they might well have been able to compromise some of America’s most important satellites, including the missile launch detection...
By Paul McLeary The State Department and Pentagon are expressing concern over new Russian and Chinese activities in space, while the White House is pushing for the creation of a Space Force. …read more...
By Andrew Davies For a long time, I thought that nuclear weapons were a tolerable evil. I bought into the argument that they played a positive role in some circumstances by deterring nations from...
By Terence Wood The Western Melanesian countries of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG) are both poor and poorly governed. Anyone who has spent any time in either country will have seen how...
By Sachini Muller and Terence Wood The results from Mongolia’s first gender-based violence survey are in. ACAPS is a non-profit dedicated to providing humanitarian actors with emergency assessments. This Devex article reports on how...
Defence planning is the theme of the most recent issue of Defence Studies. It is edited by Henrik Breitenbauch… …read more From:: Center for Military Studies (Policy)
By Annalisa Merelli “There is no question that family separation was the most traumatic experience [migrants] went through, but it wouldn’t be a deterrent.” …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)
By ASPI staff In this podcast, we discuss Australia’s reset with China, the true cost of our new submarine fleet, big tech companies and online censorship, and Madeleine Nyst interviews Indonesia expert Natalie Sambhi....
By Richard N. Haass Now that Turkey is at loggerheads with its erstwhile ally, the United States, the country’s currency crisis has morphed into a political problem of the first order. The immediate issue...
By Rebecca Moore, Aru Kok, Georgia Grice and Aakriti Bachhawat The beat Former president pleads guilty in El Salvador Former El Salvadorian president Antonio Saca has pleaded guilty to money-laundering and embezzlement charges. He...
By Jacqueline Zwambila On 10 August, Movement for Democratic Change Alliance President Nelson Chamisa made it to the courts 30 minutes before the deadline to lodge his application challenging the results of Zimbabwe’s presidential...
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