Politics
Brokering Peace in Yemen - Fight for Marib will Dictate Nation’s Future
Yemen’s oil rich province of Marib is once again centre stage to a raging battle for control, pitting Yemen’s internationally recognised government (backed by the Saudi war coalition and its local allies to Ansarallah (aka the Houthis, a movement born in the Highlands of the northern province of Sa’ada that operates under...
The Problems with the KF-X Project
In one of his articles on how South Korea is arming itself, the author mentioned a fighter aircraft project called KF-X (Korean Fighter eXperimental in Korea and IF-X (Indonesian Fighter eXperimental in Indonesia. Jakarta agreed to become a partner in the South Korean KF-X project, which is aimed at developing a new fighter by 2026, and has pledged to shoulder...
Afghanistan is Once Again in the Taliban’s Clutches
Deborah Lyons, head of the United National Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, expressed “serious concerns” about the military successes scored by the Taliban rebels (an organization that is banned in Russia by virtue of the withdrawal of US and coalition forces from the country. All the major trends - politics, security, the peace process, the economy...
