IS has launched a “considerable recruitment push” focused on women and girls in recent months, according to a comprehensive new report issued Monday by the London-based Human Security Centre (HSC).

Israelis appear to be the most incompetent genocidaires to ever walk this earth and are responsible for the only large-scale annihilation campaign in history where the victim population actually increased.

Western governments in particular must wake up to the reality that radicalised Western women and girls are neither less likely to join ISIS, and nor do they pose a lesser threat because of their gender.

You need to give opportunities to the children of today so they can make a difference tomorrow. And right now they don’t have this chance.

Could Nigeria's recent presidential election cause a shift in power resulting in a return to power of oppressive military leadership?

Neither side really wants a full-scale war, but unintended escalation is very much possible.

Over the past year, Turkey has taken several stances against what have otherwise been broadly held Western policy positions.

With the situation in the Middle East already volatile, the must Prosecutor take this into account when deciding whether to go ahead with an investigation.

Last month saw the Pentagon announce that it was moving away from its controversial Air-Sea Battle (ASB) programme, declaring instead that it would be absorbed into a new – and somewhat amorphous sounding – model, to be known as the “Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons” (JAM-GC).