Near East Center for Strategic Engagement

NEC-SE had posted that during the 3 hour presidential debate the national debt rose $360 million USD and ISIS took over three more cities/villages two in Syria, one in Yemen, as Russia […]

Yesterday, just six days after celebrating our one-year anniversary on September 11, and eight months after operationalizing our website, NEC-SC reached another important milestone by recording the 100,000th visitor to our website. […]

On 28 AUG 15 NEC-SE posted the article: Expect an Emerging IS, Italian, Mexican, Criminal Triad. http://nec-se.webbar312.net/2015/08/28/expect-an-emerging-is-italian-mexican-%E2%80%8Bcriminal-%E2%80%8Btriad/ The below article states:  “Now, Louahabi prays alongside hundreds of other Muslims — foreigners and […]

Two of the main reasons why Afghanistan is hard to administer is because it is still tribal and tied to the various resourcing that funds illegal drugs.  This combination requires tribalism for […]

NEC-SE congratulates Mar Gewargis of Baghdad on being the Newest Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.

“Police in Berlin have shot dead an Islamist who stabbed and seriously injured a policewoman. Rafik Yousef, who was born in Iraq, had previously been jailed for involvement in a plot to […]

On 28 AUG 15 NEC-SE posted the article: “Expect an Emerging IS-Italian-Mexican ?Criminal ?Triad.” In the article we stated: “Expect ?IS ?to make secret alliances to ?help ?supply Mexic?an drug cartels via Europe […]

On our first anniversary NEC-SE posted a detailed article on how the refugee crisis has become a money boom for major illegal operations in the region and globally.  At the same time […]

“The president, prime minister and several government officials of Burkina Faso are being held hostage by rogue members of the presidential guard. The hostage situation has been condemned by the UN Security […]

“At least 12 people were killed when three bombs went off in mainly Shi’ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said.” “Two suicide bomb attacks in the central […]