After the jihadist uprising of 2024, Mohammed Yunus was flown in from France and installed as Chief Adviser, effectively placing Bangladesh in the hands of a group of foreign nationals who had common agenda of turning the country into a neo-colony of the foreign interests and following the end of Yunus’s illegal rule through a [...]

A fresh wave of controversy has erupted in British political and royal circles after Kirill Dmitriev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, publicly criticized UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prince Andrew over scandals linked to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The remarks, delivered via social media platform X on February [...]

The United States has hailed Mexico’s security forces following the death of one of the country’s most powerful and feared drug traffickers, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, widely known as “El Mencho.” The operation, which unfolded in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, marks a significant moment in the decades-long struggle against organized crime networks that have [...]

For years, Washington viewed the Houthis as a contained problem – a militant force entrenched in Yemen’s rugged mountains and along its Red Sea coastline, dangerous but geographically limited. That assumption is now dangerously outdated. What we are witnessing is not merely an embattled insurgency fighting for survival at home. The Houthis have evolved into [...]

Hungary has moved to block the European Union’s proposed 20th sanctions package against Russia, tying its approval to the restoration of oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia. The standoff, which unfolded during a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on February 23, underscores deepening divisions within the bloc over how to balance [...]

The killing of notorious cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, widely known as El Mencho, marks a watershed moment in the long-running war against organized crime in Mexico. For observers in Bangladesh and beyond who track transnational security dynamics, the episode underscores how intelligence cooperation, rather than unilateral force, is increasingly shaping high-value counter-narcotics operations.
Mexican authorities confirmed [...]

A coordinated law enforcement operation supported by Eurojust has dismantled a fraudulent cryptocurrency call center in Ukraine, underscoring both the scale of cross-border financial crime in Europe and the growing convergence between cyber-enabled scams and human rights concerns. The arrests of 11 suspects in the city of Dnipro mark a significant development in Europe’s intensifying [...]

An investigation by the independent outlet Buro Media has shed new light on the industrial supply chains underpinning Russia’s ongoing aerial campaign in Ukraine. Drawing on customs records and trade data, the report details how Belarusian companies have exported critical components to Russian defense manufacturers involved in producing glide bombs-munitions that have played a devastating role in [...]

There is an old joke in political circles — one that is darkly funny precisely because it is so reliably true — that power is never really lost. It merely changes addresses. In Bangladesh, that joke has taken on a particularly brazen new form. Within twenty-four hours of the interim government’s dissolution, its two most [...]

When a nation seals its border, it is rarely just a security decision. It is a declaration of vulnerability, a signal of exhaustion, and sometimes a warning to the world. Chad’s decision to close its eastern frontier with Sudan is all three.
The announcement from N’Djamena follows deadly clashes near the border town of Tiné, where [...]