spkt.io/a/2576212 Recently, Pakistan's liberal daily Dawn published two articles in which the authors discuss the likely scenarios unfolding in Afghanistan and the countries surrounding it after the Islamic Emirate (the Afghan Taliban organization) took control of Kabul on August 15, 2021. Taliban leaders held talks with former President Hamid Karzai in Kabul In the first article, titled "A Reformed Taliban?" Pakistani physicist and liberal writer Pervez Hoodbhoy noted that the Islamic Emirate ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
spkt.io/a/2541377 On August 16, the CCP media outlet Global Times published an editorial titled "Afghan Abandonment A Lesson For Taiwan's DPP the ruling Democratic Progressive Party ." The editorial, published the day after the Taliban entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul, stated that the DPP should give up its "secessionist" dreams because the U.S. will abandon Taiwan as it did Afghanistan. It stated: "From what happened in Afghanistan, the DPP authorities should perceive that once a war ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
spkt.io/a/2514068 The following is a MEMRI Daily Brief published April 22, 2021. 1 Introduction On April 14, 2021, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, or the Afghan Taliban organization) announced that it would not participate in the Istanbul conference on the future of Afghanistan. The Istanbul conference, which was set to begin on April 24, is led primarily by the United States, with other partners being Turkey, Qatar, and the United Nations. 2 Muhammad Naeem, the spokesman of the ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. MEMRI REPORTS Inquiry and Analysis No. 1595 – Exploiting U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Islamic State-Taliban Fight To Establish Islamic Caliphate To Intensify , August 13, 2021 spkt.io/a/2493327 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1596 – Anti-Democracy Measures In Advance Of Qatar's First Parliamentary Elections: ...
spkt.io/a/2469586 In an article in the Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily, Gilbert Achcar, a Lebanese journalist and a professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, wrote that, while the Olympics are happening in Tokyo, Lebanon is scoring up negative records in terms of its economic situation. Lebanon, he said, is just another theatre of the struggle between the U.S. and Iran, and as long as these two countries do not reach an understanding, the crisis there will only grow deeper. He ...
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. MEMRI REPORTS Special Dispatch No. 9483 – Brooklyn Rally In Honor Of Palestinian 'Martyrs': 'If We Don't Get No Justice, They Don't Get No Peace'; 'NYC Is Full Of Palestine-Related Targets, The Options To Strike Back Are Endless'; 'New York To Gaza, Globalize The Intifada' , August 6, 2021 spkt.io/a/2457552 ...
spkt.io/a/2455639 How long do you keep investing in failure? How much effort does one put into reviving a corpse? When can you, or are allowed to, try something different? The late Sudanese rebel leader John Garang used to say that the regime in Sudan was "too deformed to be reformed" (he made a deal with that regime though, for the sake of peace, and tragically died before seeing the consequences). In a region full of rotten dysfunctional regimes, tiny Lebanon has become a cautionary tale of ...
