Munira Mustaffa is a security practitioner with experience across corporate, government, and military sectors. She specializes in counterterrorism, irregular warfare, and statecraft, with a regional focus on Asia Pacific. Mustaffa holds an MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism from University College London (UCL).
Fears that the fall of the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria and the return of the Afghan Taliban would give rise to a new wave of terrorism in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have proven largely unfounded.
The Chechen Kadyrovtsy, a militia led by warlord and Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, has a fearsome reputation. However, their performance in Ukraine indicates that the hype about their ferocity in battle is not to be believed.
