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India’s Increasing Unrest

India’s Increasing Unrest

Bottom Line Up FrontProtests continue in India over the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act, which provides for expedited citizenship but [...] More

Monsoon Rains Threaten Rohingya Refugees

Bottom Line: As monsoon season bears down on Southeast Asia, U.S. officials say up to a 100,000 Rohingya refugees sheltering in the hills of [...] More

<p>A Rohingya refugee boy in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.</p>

Tentative Deal May See Myanmar’s Rohingya Go Home—But To What?

Are Bangladesh and Myanmar poised to make progress to address the refugee crisis involving hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya?Maybe.The two [...] More

Tillerson: Myanmar Guilty of “Ethnic Cleansing”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Myanmar is guilty of “ethnic cleansing” in its crackdown on minority Muslim Rohingya, driving more than half a [...] More

Rohingya Suffering Feeds Extremist Message Worldwide

A major humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Myanmar, as tens of thousands of people, the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, flee the threat of [...] More

Al Qaeda Quietly Expands in South Asia

While al Qaeda’s affiliates in North Africa, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen continue to grab headlines, the terrorist network has surreptitiously expanded [...] More

Stop the "al Qaeda-is-Degraded" Rhetoric

The Cipher Brief sat down with Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, to discuss the [...] More

AQIS Fits Into al Qaeda’s Global Strategy

While al Qaeda’s affiliate in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) may be regionally focused, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for [...] More

Extremist Groups Target Diversity in Bangladesh

The recent attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh where 20 people were brutally murdered finally brought international attention to [...] More

A Battle for the Soul of a Nation

The terrorist attack at Holey Bakery in Dhaka earlier this month deviated in important ways from the previous trend of assassination-style attacks [...] More

Troubling Trendlines

Earlier this month, after ISIS claimed responsibility for a brazen and bloody assault on a café in Dhaka, Bangladesh, analysts pointed to the attack [...] More

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