"We view the current period as a turning point, just like 1918 and 1945 ..."--- Atlantic Council President Frederick Kempe With Iraq's rapid descent into chaos and Maliki's inability to retake territory lost to both ISIS and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, there is growing posturing amongst Kurdish leaders and their supporters to declare independence. During an interview with CNN's Christine Amanpour, the president of the northern Iraqi Kurdish Administrated Region, Massoud…

Earlier this month, the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced a series of measures aimed at stimulating euro zone's beleaguered economy. The measures include: lowering the bench mark interest rate from 0.25% to 0.15%, as well as capping long-term loans (till 2018) to banks at 7%. The ECB also considered quantitative easing but stopped short of its re-introduction. None of these measures are new and all have been tried before in…

It was a crime that horrified the world. On May 27th, in the Pakistani city of Lahore, 25-year-old Farzana Parveen was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight with batons and bricks by her father, brothers and other family members, allegedly for marrying a man against their wishes. She was 3 months pregnant and on her way to contest an abduction case her family had filed against her husband. The father…

The barbarity of the Kyrgyz Special Forces by capturing sister Zulfiyya Amonova has proven and shown the Kyrgyzstan's fear towards the rise of Islam there. Although she is only a woman, Zulfiyya Amonova was captured without knowing her condition because of her courage in defending justice for her father's fate. Tactics like this are often done by the governments of Muslim countries who are timid and cowardly by hindering the…