On Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and US President Donald Trump inaugurated the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (GCCEI), a facility that will monitor “extremist messaging” in real time... The center — named “Etidal,” or “moderation” —is established under international cooperation to confront and prevent extreme ideologies by monitoring and analyzing them, and to promote a culture of moderation.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to a document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia.”

15 years after the US invaded Afghanistan and two years since the official end and withdrawal of US and coalition forces, Afghanistan remains marred in chaos and the US constructed architecture is struggling to survive. The Taliban continue to mount steady gains against the government in Kabul which, this week, saw them taking control of capital of the Helmond province Lashkar Gah.

Classical conditioning is a term often used by psychologists. In short and simple terms, it describes the process of learning through association. This phenomena is most associated with Ivan Pavlov, who while studying the role of saliva in dogs’ digestive processes by accident, stumbled upon this process. Dogs salivate in the presence of food but over time Pavlov noticed that the dogs started producing the saliva even before coming in…