the writer is Washington based journalist’ The raging ISIS storm in Libya — torn along tribal lines and beset with political chaos — has heightened the fear that it would further extend the arc of instability that has been rattling the Middle East and North Africa since 2011 Arab Spring revolutions and ineffective international response to the upheaval. Intelligence estimates say the ISIS, also known as ISIL and Daesh or IS, has around 6,500 fighters…
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In claiming that the Islamic State poses an ‘unprecedented threat’ to the world, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is merely echoing rhetoric we have been hearing from the West, not just in the last few months, but ever since Al-Qaeda emerged as a transnational terror group. Ban claims IS is different in the scope of its threat because it has already managed to gain the allegiance of 34 militant groups around the world. This, too,…
JALALABAD—Islamic State has started cutting down trees in some parts of eastern Afghanistan in a timber-smuggling operation to neighboring Pakistan, according to Afghan officials and tribal leaders. Locals in the Afghan province say the terror group has imported tree-cutting machines and has been cutting trees in the Achin, Naziyan and Dehbala districts of Nangahar province. According to local residents, timber-loaded trucks are sent to Pakistan daily. Some of the timber is sold in local markets…