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The Nordic-Baltic warmongering under the current conditions is therefore (i) irresponsible, (ii) hypocritical, (iii) immoral, and (iv) flirts with a disaster of immense proportions. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation:...

By: Majid Maqbool Aug. 5 marked the seventh anniversary of the demotion of Jammu and Kashmir from a state to two federally governed Union Territories (UTs). Seven years on, India’s decision to unilaterally withdraw special state status remains politically fraught as...

Credit: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2026 (IPS) Pakistan, one of few South Asian countries to oscillate between democratic governments and authoritarian regimes, is cracking down on journalists, including foreign correspondents covering the political situation in...

By: Majid Maqbool The killing of a police constable in the Kashmir Valley city of Anantnag, allegedly by Islamists militants, has triggered one of the largest security crackdowns since India officially revoked the special status of the region in 2019, arresting...

In May, Turkey unveiled Yıldırımhan , its first intercontinental ballistic missile project, in a move that came as a surprise even to many in the Turkish defense community. Until then, public attention in Turkey had focused mostly on short- and...

Painting by Safia Latif Our Prophet ﷺ never gave up on fasting on Ashura, which is the 10th day of Muharram (Sunan al-Nasa’i, 2416). The Quraysh used to fast on this day in times of Jahiliyyah, and so did he ﷺ...

Hassan Aweys, the second-in-command of the Islamic Courts, was a longstanding target of the United States. ( Picture: African Arguments ) 2026 brings a seminal anniversary to the history of Somalia and East Africa, but also an important and overlooked one...

Painting by Safia Latif Our Prophet ﷺ never gave up on fasting on Ashura, which is the 10th day of Muharram (Sunan al-Nasa’i, 2416). The Quraysh used to fast on this day in times of Jahiliyyah, and so did he ﷺ...

Dear Struggling and Distressed Muslim, This letter was meant for you. Yes, you specifically. The one who has been struggling and not understanding why it’s not working out . The one who has seen countless members of your family...

By: Majid Maqbool - - - - On June 9, India opened a strategically vital 13.15 km tunnel linking the Kashmir region to Ladakh beneath the 3,529-meter Zojila pass, the world’s longest single-tube bi-directional road tunnel at the world’s highest...

Internet access is often used as a tool to control the media during conflicts Originally published on Global Voices Advox Image from iMEdD, used with permission. This article by Elli Kostika, Katerina Voutsina, and Kelly Kiki is an excerpt from a longer piece...

A year after their brief war in 2025, both India and Pakistan are revving up their war frenzy. The drums of victory are being beaten with nationalistic zeal on both sides. The two nations teem with jingoism, a sense of...

There is a certain kind of “moderate” Muslim scholar whom empire adores: calm in tone, allergic to resistance, fluent in scripture, and permanently available to explain to the oppressed why their rebellion is impractical, premature, emotional, immoral, or insufficiently spreadsheeted....

The Indian state’s crackdown on independent Muslim voices continued when a court slapped three life sentences on an Islamic writer and Kashmiri activist, Asiya Andrabi, and two others, for what appears to have been more an attack on ideology rather...

Last week, water became a focal point in the Iran war, as airstrikes hit desalination plants in Iran and Bahrain. Further east, a slower motion water war was playing out — one that is heightening tensions between two nuclear armed...

During joint operations with the U.S. on Saturday, Israel targeted and killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who at 86 had been Iran’s longest serving head of state, leading the Islamic Republic since 1989. It was the first open, direct assassination of...

During joint operations with the U.S. on Saturday, Israel targeted and killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who at 86-years-old had been Iran's longest serving head of state, leading the Islamic Republic since 1989. It was the first...

DELHI, India — After 25 books were banned by the Indian government last year, security forces have been raiding bookshops and authors’ homes in different parts of Kashmir for supposed secessionist content. Despite this climate of censorship, numerous...

This article is part of our special series recognizing the four-year anniversary of the Ukraine War The Russian invasion of Ukraine is entering its fifth year. We know from history that warring states are capable of enduring far longer than...

Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set “Ramadan goals,” deepen their relationship with the Qur’an, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in taraweeh prayers, retreat...

- - - - One of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s services. CC Photo Lab / Shutterstock That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly...

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Reuters photo The recent wave of coordinated attacks by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) across more than 10 cities in the troubled province of Balochistan, which takes up 44 percent of the...

A woman in a remote hamlet in Kashmir, India, migrates to a safer location with her child as floodwater inundates her hometown. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS By Umar Manzoor Shah SRINAGAR & NEW DELHI, Feb 9 2026 (IPS) When the rain...

Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . While African Union officials see Sudan’s return to the African Union as unlikely in the near term as Prime Minister Kamel Idris presses to make the case for reinstatement, his diplomacy,...

By: Nirupama Subramanian - - - - Deccan Herald graphic The dark clouds over the “ most consequential relationship of the 21 st century ” appear to have lifted with US President Donald Trump’s announcement earlier this week that...

Biodiversity is in the headlines as 2022 comes to an end, with a “historic” deal to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 agreed at a global summit in Montreal, Canada. Dubbed by some commentators a “Paris Agreement for nature”, conservationists hope...

The Middle East has always been a difficult region for the West, especially for the United States. During the Cold War era, America’s efforts to establish its hold over the region’s key oil-producing countries backfired, resulting in anger and resentment...

India’s government has pushed through a dangerous new bill that has provoked a mass uprising . The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) offers a fast-track to legalization for Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Parsi, Buddhist and Jain immigrants from bordering nations while explicitly...