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Will Ukraine benefit from the Minsk deal?
The deal, even with all its positives, apparently isn’t doing much to change the situation on ground.
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Of drone strikes: “Did we just kill a kid?”
His peers believed that they had killed a 'dog' and not a kid that day, and thus it was nothing to worry about.
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Drones, Pakistan’s worst kept secret
Of 2,379 people killed during drone strikes only 704 have been identified of which 322 are reportedly civilians.
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Is the New Silk Road really an economic corridor for China and Pakistan?
However creative the Silk Road Project may be, it can’t be concluded without bursting cooperation from partner states.
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ISIS and the cycle of open-ended US strikes
If the US strikes in Iraq have been unable to budge the Islamic State in six weeks, what can it actually do in Syria?
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Is the ISIS really in our backyard?
The ISIS, with its brutal methods, has already topped the list of being one of the most feared terror outfits.
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The curious case of drone strikes in FATA
With no strikes in more than five months, the TTP has lost one of the major rationales for its war against the state.
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Previously 'The Arab Spring', now 'The Faulty Revolution Bandwagon'
Whenever there is a protest against a ‘less than popular’ leader, the media is quick to tag it as a...
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Will Crimea's 'strategic importance' cost Putin his political future?
Russia uses Kosovo as a precedent to justify Crimea's annexation. But how correct is Putin in this comparison?
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Can Vladimir Putin pull off the Winter Olympics safely?
According to Dokka Umarov, "Russia's Bin Laden", the Olympics are being 'held over the bones of innocent...