by Onur Sultan | May 18, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Updated on 21 May 2018 Parliamentary elections were held in peace on 12 May 2018 in Iraq. The turnover was mere 44.52 percent of registered voters,15 percent lower than that of previous election in 2014. In fact, the participation was the lowest among those held after...
by Transatlantic Task Force | May 14, 2018 | Commentary, Defence & Security
Following the conclusion of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operation, Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) assumed full security responsibility of their country. Despite enormous efforts including spending more than $ 70 bn...
by Juan Barter | May 14, 2018 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism
The aim of this paper is to give a general look into the “2016 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) Report” by The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). The report is available online[1]. IEP, founded in 2007, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank...
by Transatlantic Task Force | May 7, 2018 | Commentary, Maritime & Naval Security
As part of the adaptation measures taken by NATO Allies after Russian aggression,NATO Defence Ministers agreed upon an outline for future work to adapt the Command Structure[1]including a new Joint Force Command for the Atlantic to ensure that sea lines of...
by Anne Speckhard | May 5, 2018 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism
A recent PBS series highlighted the case of an American mother, Samantha Elhassani, who took her two American children into the so-called Islamic State and had two more babies there with her Moroccan husband, who became a member of ISIS. Her two eldest children, now...
by Transatlantic Task Force | May 1, 2018 | Commentary, Defence & Security
NATO’s foreign ministers met on 27 April 2018 for the last time at the old NATO Headquaters as part of the preparations for the biennial NATO Summit to be held in July this year in Brussels. Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Western Balkans were...
