At least 30,000 people have left Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia in recent days following the new offensive launched by Azerbaijan to annex the territory, which has been disputed with Yerevan since 1994. This goal seems to have been achieved. On...
By our envoy in Asia, Emanuele Giordana
Vientiane, Laos - When the Russian Defence Ministry announced on 9 January that Moscow had received 30 vintage T-34/85 tanks from Laos, some may have thought it was a sign of Lao-Russian friendship...
By Emanuele Giordana
"Immediate action is needed to prevent further damage and escalation of the disaster in Afghanistan, where poverty has reached unprecedented levels since the financial reserves were frozen in US and European banks last August". This is the...
Relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States today represent the most important node on a global level. It is a relationship that has always been fluctuating, alternating between periods of effective and fruitful cooperation and...
By Lucia Frigo, director of Atlasofwars.com
Nine months after the Taliban grabbed the power in Afghanistan, humanitarian organization Emergency paints a grim picture of the country: now more than ever the Afghani population need the support of the international community...
By Emanuele Giordana
Amnesty International's latest report on Myanmar - 'Bullets raining from the sky: War Crimes and Displacement in Eastern Myanmar' - is an investigation conducted by Amnesty International in the two states of Kayin and Kayah. The two...
by Anna Violante
Near a jungle on the Thai-Myanmar border, a group of about ten people have gathered in a field and are sitting on the ground. Their voices unite in a song that echoes with a call for peace....
by Anna Violante
Three months after clashes erupted between the Kukis and the Meiteis, two of the three main ethnic groups in the north-eastern state of Manipur, more than 150 people have died, over 300 injured, some 60,000 displaced and...
A photo essay by Alessandro de Pascale and Theo Guzman
We are in Camp Victoria, the headquarters of the Chin National Army (CNA), which controls 70% of the territory of Chin State. This long-established and largest installation is located on...
by Subir Bhaumik *
As the countdown begins on Bangladesh’s parliament polls scheduled for Jan 2024, there seems to be a resurgence of Islamist radicalism with both major parties, ruling Awami League and main Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), looking to...