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In recent days, the Taliban have captured large swaths of territory in Afghanistan, seizing multiple provincial capitals. It now reportedly controls about two thirds of the Afghan provinces. The group took large spoils from the government troops, capturing tons of munitions and weaponry, as well as hundreds of armored and …

In the neverending gender debate that obsesses a particular section of the Western middle-class liberal population, it’s funny that no one is ever asked to sign a petition demanding that women be allowed to use men’s public urinals. Strangely, however, there seems to be a growing queue of trans women …

The Taliban has set up observation posts and checkpoints after having largely overrun the areas adjacent to the Afghan-Tajik border, the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s (CSTO) Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colonel Anatoly Sidorov explained. “We’ve seen the Taliban’s outposts. At least for now, we see no …

Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) seized the public market of Datu Paglas, located on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, on Saturday morning, prompting the deployment of military and police units to the area.  The group opposes a peace agreement between Muslim rebels, the Moro Islamic Liberation …

After confirming intelligence about a camouflaged terrorist camp in the Syrian desert, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out the airstrike, and destroyed two terrorist structures, “up to to 200 militants, 24 pickups with heavy machine guns, as well as about 500 kg of ammunition and components for creating improvised explosive …

The coastal town of Palma in northern Mozambique located not far from the Tanzanian border was overrun by Islamist insurgents earlier this week. A local extremist group, known as al-Shabab (and not linked to its Somali namesake), launched a coordinated three-pronged assault on the town on Wednesday, reportedly involving some …

The documents released by the hacktivist collective Anonymous appear to expose a variety of covert actions undertaken by the UK government against the Syrian state over many years. The overriding objective behind them all, the papers suggest, was to destabilise the government of Bashar Assad, convince Syrians, Western citizens, foreign …

“We don’t have any such agenda [to bring foreign fighters to support Azerbaijan],” Erdogan told a gathering of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party on Wednesday. In saying this, he was apparently taking a swipe at “those who call us to say ‘you sent the mujahideen from Syria’ [into …

First, Yerevan alleged Baku was being supported by foreign allies in the largely ethnic Armenian enclave that has seen heavy fighting along its borders since early on Sunday. “Based on our information, about 4,000 militants have been transported by Turkey from Syria to Azerbaijan recently,” Armenia’s ambassador to Russia, Vardan Toganyan, …

The contradictions between the militants of various factions which tear now Iglinsky area of de-escalation, not only in the province but also spread the rebels-controlled part of Aleppo province. So, South-West of Aleppo, there was another clash between the Pro-Turkish group “Falak al-sham” and “nurowski” “Hayat Tahrir al-sham”. The fighting …