Asia
Central Asian Muslims in the Syrian War
Bashar al-Assad's convincing victory in the presidential elections in Syria inspires hope for a speedy conclusion to the armed conflict which has lasted from March 2011 and has killed more than 150000 people. Government troops confronting Islamist militias...
Chinese National Security Committee
At the III plenum of the XVIII Central Committee of the CPC, convened in November 2013, among other things, the create of a Chinese National Security Committee was announced. Not much information is available about the new Committee, as is to be expected for...
International conflict is getting more violent in Iraq
The last 2 days saw intense fighting between the militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS and the government troops of Nouri al-Maliki near the administrative center of the predominantly Sunni province of Diyala – the Baqubah city...
