After Baghdadi
On October 27, the US Special Operations forces killed the dreaded leader of the Islamic State (IS), Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, in Syria’s Idlib province. This is the second major setback…
Licence to fire
It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the…
Structural crash
A FIVE-storey building recently collapsed in Baghdadi, a dense neighbourhood of Lyari, killing at least 27 people and leaving many more maimed and traumatised. Several buildings have crumbled in recent…
The real battlefield is intellectual
In the ancient city of Rabat, where the intellectual heritage of the Islamic world resonates in historic libraries and madrasas, the Vice Chancellors’ Forum of Universities in the Islamic World,…
Qataris search for bodies of Americans killed by Islamic State in Syria
A Qatari mission has begun searching for the remains of US hostages killed by Islamic State in Syria a decade ago, two sources briefed on the mission said, reviving a…
Defence first
The government’s preparations to present the federal budget for the new fiscal year in the National Assembly have entered the final stages. However, like every year, some analysts are raising…
Taxilas no more
IF you have travelled on the Grand Trunk Road, which we insist was built by Sher Shah Suri, towards Peshawar, some 90 kilometres from Islamabad, you come across a town…
US piles pressure on Iraq to resume Kurdish oil exports
US President Donald Trump’s administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter…
The Kurd struggle
The Kurds are a people divided between four countries: Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. This reflects the fact that state boundaries were drawn in many parts of the world depending…
A palace in shock: Bashar al-Assad’s final moments in Syria
Hours before rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was already out of the country, telling hardly anyone, five former officials told AFP.…
