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Myanmar is reconnecting with the outside world after decades of military rule. Photo: AFP/Khin Maung Win

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Understanding the Myanmar military’s genocidal mind

by Anthony Davis December 17, 2019February 18, 2020

In her defense of Myanmar against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague last week, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was at pains to stress the complexity of the ethnic conflict in Rakhine state and her country’s stumbling efforts to implement its own process of accountability and military […]

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Iraq, Middle East, Syria

Baghdadi’s death will change jihadi landscape

by Faisal Al Yafai October 31, 2019February 18, 2020

Afghan National Army (ANA) Soldiers, belonging to the 1st MSF (Mobile Strike Force) prepare to participate in a class taught by US Soldiers and contractors.

Afghanistan, European Union, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

Impediments to the US mission in Afghanistan

by Manoj Kumar Mishra December 28, 2018December 28, 2018

A US C-17 troop transport aircraft is parked at the 2017 Los Angeles Air Show. Photo: iStock

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, European Union, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, World

Planet of war: US military prepares for global combat

by Danny Sjursen November 22, 2018

Closeup view of finger pressing a reset buttonRelated lightboxes: Photo: iStock

Afghanistan, South Asia, World

Time to hit the political reset button in Afghanistan

by Haroun Mir July 18, 2018

Sri Lanka flag with Chinese flag isolated on black background. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, India, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, World

Sri Lanka’s Chinese connection: beyond bribes and debts

by Ana Pararajasingham July 16, 2018July 16, 2018

Blurry silhouettes and shadows of people walking on the city sidewalk.Photo: iStock

Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, South Asia

On ‘The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace’

by Imad Zafar June 1, 2018June 1, 2018

United States Major General Edward Lansdale in 1963. Photo: US Air Force / Wikimedia Commons

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Iraq, Japan, Laos, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Syria, Vietnam, World

Heart and mind of a US super spy

by Doug Tsuruoka January 13, 2018February 18, 2020

This file photo shows US General David Petraeus when he was commander of the international security assistance force and commander of US Forces in Afghanistan, testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the situation in Afghanistan in 2011. Photo: Reuters

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‘Tell me how this ends?’ Petraeus finally answers his own question

by Tom Engelhardt October 19, 2017October 19, 2017

A file photo of a blimp flying over a burning flame. Photo: AFP/Fabric Coffrini

AT Finance, China, Malaysia, Thailand

Limp blimp ignites Thai military corruption debate

by Richard S Ehrlich September 28, 2017February 18, 2020

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Officer ‘shot dead by soldier’ in dispute over mobile phone

by Asia Times staff July 18, 2017February 18, 2020

Myanmar is reconnecting with the outside world after decades of military rule. Photo: AFP/Khin Maung Win

AT Finance, European Union, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Thailand, World

‘Four cuts’ strategy deepens Myanmar’s war wounds

by Stella Naw July 15, 2017February 18, 2020

Philippine soldiers guarding members of the extremist Maute Group aboard a military vehicle in Marawi City in the southern island of Mindanao, a day after they were arrested at a military checkpoint and who were later on August 27, 2016 freed by their comrades in a daring jailbreak. Photo: AFP/Richele Umel

AT Finance, Iraq, Middle East, Philippines, Russia, Syria, World

A terror group emerges in the Philippines

by Noel Tarrazona May 26, 2017February 18, 2020

Police and paramilitary forces in parts of India have been accused of rights abuses up to and including extrajudicial killings, often in non-Hindu areas. Here students hurl stones toward police during a protest in Chandigarh on April 11, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Ajay Verma

India, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia

Colonial-era legislation infects army mindset in Manipur

by Kadayam Subramanian April 16, 2017April 17, 2017

Myanmar and China share a long and often troubled border. Photo: iStock/Getty images

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, United Kingdom, World

A Chinese war in Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner April 5, 2017February 18, 2020

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (C) raises a clenched fist with military top brass as he visits troops in Nanagun, Lombayanague in Lanao del Sur in Mindanao island on November 30, 2016.
Photo: AFP / Richel Umel

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Duterte: America’s closet ally

by Richard Javad Heydarian February 10, 2017February 18, 2020

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Mistah Kurtz, he clueless

by Spengler May 11, 2004September 1, 2020

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