For years US terror warnings have focused on groups like Al Qaeda or Daesh, but the latest warnings from US law enforcement agencies point to homegrown terrorists as the most immediate danger. The United States has been in a permanent state of war since the attacks of September 11, 2001, finding itself voluntarily involved in...
More than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region of China, their native land, are believed to have been interned in so-called reeducation camps by the Chinese authorities. The number may be as high as 2 or 3 million—out of a population of 11 million. Trapped along with them are Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Uzbeks,...
The fact not a single leader of a Muslim majority country has spoken out either forcibly or frequently against China’s cultural genocide in Xinjiang, one that constitutes the largest industrial scale persecution of a religious minority since the Holocaust, leaves ordinary Muslims asking what it is they can do to save 12 million of their...
Turkey has three possible courses of action in response to the civil war in Syria: diplomatic engagement, isolation or military intervention. The idea at the outset was to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table with the opposition, and to persuade them to find common ground, focusing on rights and freedoms and swift...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is traveling to Moscow on Monday for his third meeting this year with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the opening ceremony of the Turkey-Russia cross-cultural year. Erdoğan’s visit is expected to focus on regional cooperation between the two countries, as well as Turkey’s planned counterterror operation in Syria. “Our cooperation with...
Turkey’s main opposition party and its electoral partner pulled off a stunning upset of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in local elections on March 31. Voters in Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul, Turkey’s industrial and economic center, opted for candidates from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) rather than...
Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Russia next week will see the two Great Powers take their strategic partnership to the next level in an increasingly multipolar and complex world. The Turkish leader will arrive in the Russian capital next Monday on 8 April for the upcoming session of the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council, which is an...
India’s claim that one of its fighter pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle between the two nuclear powers in February appears to be wrong. Two senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told Foreign Policy that U.S. personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing. The findings...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said Israel has no rights over the occupied Golan Heights. “Under UN resolutions, Israel cannot lay claim on even a small bit of the Golan Heights,” Erdogan said at an election rally in Turkey’s central province of Konya, according to Anadolu. He added: Trump’s remarks about the Golan Heights could...
Renowned Islamic scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani survived an assassination attempt on Friday when he was attacked by gunmen near Neepa Chowrangi on Friday. According to reports, two Darul Uloom Korangi cars came under attack in Karachi which killed two people and injured as many. The attack took place in the remits of Aziz Bhatti Police...