In January 2018, eight conservation scientists from the Tehran-based Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF) were arrested, accused of setting camera traps to spy. This baseless claim has been propounded by Iran’s hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Sepah. The conservationists, who have worked to preserve the critically endangered
The ongoing operation by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIS in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz is drawing to a close, both in terms of the battle itself and the power of the so-called caliphate. The Battle for Baghouz, on the Euphrates River near the Iraq border, has
An Australian born national went into two mosques in Christchurch on Friday the 15th of March and shot dead 50 people and injured numerous more individuals. New Zealand’s international reputation will be impacted by the first major terrorist attack in our nation’s history. New Zealand prides itself on being an
U.S. and Kurdish forces have attacked the last stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) . Aerial bombings of the town of Hajin, where the last remnants of ISIL are located, have increased and SDF commanders are making progress. This being the last territory, ISIL analysts
