In August last year, Trump announced his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, which consisted of applying greater pressure on the Pakistanis to support US counter-terrorism operations. At the beginning of January 2018 Trump launched into a public tirade about Pakistan’s complicity in aiding and abetting terrorist groups on its soil. Pakistan bitterly opposes Trump’s version of events and points to the huge sacrifices made in prosecuting America’s global war…

Russian state-run news agency TASS on November 15 quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Putin spoke by phone with separatist leaders Aleksandr Zakharchenko of the Donetsk region and Igor Plotnitsky of Luhansk.

21st November, the UK’s Channel 4 aired a documentary entitled, “The Truth About Muslim Marriage” in which it sought to undermine the Islamic Nikah contract by arguing that it does not protect the rights of Muslim women in marriage and that Muslims should be obliged to have a civil marriage recognized under British law in order to ensure that the marital rights of women were safeguarded by the British legal…

On the 21st of October, President Trump declared that the US had reached "a critical breakthrough in our worldwide campaign to defeat ISIS and its wicked ideology", and yet, despite major defeats for ISIS forces and the loss of Raqqah in Syria to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US is still very far from a political solution in Syria