Turkey Vows to Fight ISIL, Guns for Assad’s exit

Published on Oct 5, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Turkey will fight against ISIL and other terrorist groups in the region but will stick to its aim of seeing Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad removed from power, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan.Read more from Dan Boylan at The National. .

Terror Australis – Fear and Theater?

Published on Sep 28, 2014 by Luke Hunt

“All terrorism is theater. All counter-terrorism is theater.” So spoke Dr. Anne-Azza Aly, a counter terrorism expert at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, Monday night on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Q&A (known as “qanda”), where panelists answer audience questions about issues of the day.Read more from Helen Clark in The Diplomat..

‘Comfort Women’ Joining Islamic State

Published on Sep 21, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Reports that Malaysian women, among others, were abandoning their homes and heading to the Middle East to serve in jihad al-nikah (sexual jihad) as “comfort women” have drawn a combination of disbelief and protests from the Islamic community. The reports have come from Malaysian news sources. Police say they are investigating the reports, which “did not come from official channels.”Read more from Luke Hunt in  The Diplomat..

Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Must Fight Islamic State

Published on Sep 7, 2014 by Luke Hunt

With the Western world predominantly reinventing the “Coalition of the Willing” and dispatching arms and air support to Kurdistan, where the Peshmerga have stood alone in battling the Islamic State, pressure is rightly being applied to Southeast Asia to pitch-in, particularly ASEAN’s three predominantly Muslim members: Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat.  .

Khmer Rouge Leaders Guilty of War Crimes, Jailed for Life

Published on Aug 11, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Surviving henchmen of Pol Pot guilty of crimes against humanityWritten by Luke Hunt for The DiplomatA full bench of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has found Pol Pot’s surviving henchmen guilty of crimes against humanity, and sentenced them to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.udge Nil Nonn said a bench of international and Cambodian judges had found Nuon Chea, 88, and Khieu Samphan, 83 guilty of murder, extermination, and an array of other criminal charges partially in regards to the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975.Similar criminal charges involving a second phase of forced population movement between September 1975 and late 1977 and the slaughter of soldiers, bureaucrats and their families from....