“WASHINGTON – Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who recently led the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, said the U.S. military would likely refuse to follow certain orders from Donald Trump […]

The question needs to be asked as to why ISIS has now decided to attack Baghdad? Since June 2014, ISIS has tried to shape the battlefield and to control the battlefield tempo, […]

We are losing Asia either through incompetence and or a deliberate decision to turn it over to others. http://nec-se.webbar312.net/2015/10/16/the-new-model-of-power-relations-and-the-middle-east-crisis-3/ The unsettling truth is that U.S. foreign policy has been reduced to keeping […]

Breaking news: At 18:00 Istanbul time the Turkish Army HQ in Ankara was shattered by explosions from two bombs.  The bombings took place in the Kizilay District, approximately 3 KM from Ataturk’s […]

On 8 AUG 15 NEC-SE was the first educational outlet which asked the question: What happens when 60 million refugees become state less people? Greece’s defense minister on Tuesday called on Turkey […]

Iran-backed militias have seized homes, businesses and cultural sites, including churches belonging to Baghdad’s Christian communities, forcing individuals to resettle and forfeit all their belongings, according to members of the Christian members […]

According to his supporters, Yusuf was one of thousands of Almajiri children – religious students who beg on the streets for a living. But by the early 2000s he had found a […]