Exclusive: If forced, Taliban will fight for a century – Zabihullah Mujahid
BABA UMAR 10 APR 2018 SOURCE: TRT WORLD The spokesman for the Afghan Taliban speaks to TRT World about the recent Kunduz air strike, Kabul’s talks offer and the emergence of Daesh in the region. The deadly air strike in the Afghan province of Kunduz that reportedly killed dozens of seminary students has once again underlined […]
What’s going on in Armenia?
The Armenian opposition has launched a general strike after the ruling Republican Party blocked opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan’s bid to become prime minister after two weeks of anti-government protests ousted veteran leader Serzh Sargsyan. BABA UMAR 2 MAY 2018 Source: TRT World What’s going on in Armeni Weeks of protests in Armenia are coming to a […]
Palestinians react with fury at the Arab League’s resolution on Jerusalem
A two-page resolution of 22 Arab states “condemns” US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but many Palestinians see it out of sync with the outrage in the streets. BABA UMAR 11 DEC 2017 SOURCE: TRT WORLD Long on rhetoric and short on punitive actions: Palestinians have slammed an Arab League resolution […]
The human and financial cost of India’s demonetisation
It has been over 80 days since India changed from hard cash to a virtual economy. Yet the dramatic move has been deadly for some and many are still struggling with the digital future. BABA UMAR 9 NOV 2017 SOURCE: TRT WORLD NEW DELHI – The first thing rickshaw driver Satish asks when a new passenger boards […]
Timeline: The Russian Revolution
The revolution in 1917 saw Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II, relinquish his throne, and power go to the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin. The revolution created the communist state of Soviet Russia. BABA UMAR 7 NOV 2017 SOURCE: TRT WORLD In 1917, a band of revolutionaries ousted the Tsarist Empire in what became known as the […]
The Russian Revolution, 100 years on
The Bolsheviks had a battery of powerful leaders but the most notable were Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – Lenin as he is better known – Joseph Stalin, and for a time Leon Trotsky. BABA UMAR 6 NOV 2017 Source: TRT WORLD One hundred years ago, the Bolsheviks and their supporters came to power in Russia in what […]
Militia bosses used sexual violence as ‘war tactic’ in CAR
Commanders of Muslim Seleka and the largely Christian anti-balaka militias used rape and sexual slavery as a war tactic, rights group Human Rights Watch says in a new report. BABA UMAR 5 OCT 2017 Source: TRT WORLD Commanders of armed groups fighting the five-year-old civil war in the Central African Republic (or CAR) have used sexual violence and […]
The debris of war will test Syria’s reconstruction efforts
The bombing of housing units and infrastructure has left millions of tonnes of debris, complicating post-war rebuilding plans. BABA UMAR 5 OCT 2017 Source: TRT World Istanbul – When 27-year-old Muhammad Alkhalaf remembers his home city of Aleppo, he sees the historic market, with sunlight gaping through its old roof, the jubilant crowd occupying its festooned […]
How did North Korea get a hydrogen bomb, if that’s what it was
Pyongyang’s quest for nuclear weapons has its roots in the post-WWII history of the Korean Peninsula, and especially a war that has never ended. BABA UMAR 8 SEP 2017 Source: TRT World On Sunday, September 3, 2017, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK – North Korea) staked its claim to join a very exclusive and […]
‘Independence for Catalonia is just a threat to blackmail Spain’
Spain has warned Catalans against holding a referendum vote in September this year. Alfons López Tena – a former Catalan MP – has grown disillusioned with the independence movement as he believes it’s been stuck in a “quagmire of wishful thinking.” BABA UMAR 29 MAR 2017 Source: TRT World In early March, Artur Mas was found […]