Asia

Thailand has a special place among a number of South-East Asian countries, threatened by the spread of the jihadist movement, where for over a half-century, separatists and radical Islamists represent a threat to its security, acting under the slogan of creating an independent...

A bitter war is raging inside Turkey that pits Fetullah Gülen, the nominal head of a multi-billion dollar movement known as Cemaat, (The Movement in Turkish, against the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his political party, AKP. Gülen’s followers claim he is a great Islamist...

The question of royal succession is one of the most pressing problems for the monarchies on the Arabian Peninsula. In the wake of Saudi Arabia, which has recently just gone through its own change of leadership, the Sultanate of Oman is facing a similar problem...