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On October 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Lebanese people to rise up against Hezbollah, giving them a stark choice:... Read More

Thousands of North Korean troops have begun to engage Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, and may soon enter Ukraine. This... Read More

While the nomination of Pete Hegseth stunned me at first, upon further reflection its genius became clear. Donald Trump isn’t bringing... Read More

According to Tondelier, the social network website, which she has regularly used herself, should be “regulated or shut down”. Read More

The Pentagon is putting $13 billion behind its talk of embracing commercial space, committing serious money to low-Earth orbit satellite... Read More

The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, warned on Thursday of the need for the UK to “rebuild” relations... Read More

It’s a reasonable bet that if Jeremy Clarkson stood for prime minister tomorrow, he’d win by a country mile. Some might even... Read More

President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive election victory gives him a once-in-a-generation mandate to finally implement an America First... Read More

A series of events show how countries like India and Japan may be seeking more independence from the American-led... Read More

For more than three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States and its allies faced no serious nuclear threats. Unfortunately,... Read More

This in the wake of long range missile attacks from Ukraine with "western-made" weapons Read More

The Biden administration has loosened some restrictions on how Ukraine can use U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles in its ongoing war with Russia.... Read More

The Iranian plot to assassinate Trump is an act of war. It is a direct attack on our democratic process. It cannot be ignored. And simply... Read More

“Iran is a de facto threshold nuclear power,” said former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It could be just days or weeks away... Read More

Iran and Russia will likely sign a strategic partnership treaty in Moscow later this year, upgrading a partnership the... Read More

It may well be the biggest and most significant choice the Starmer administration will have to take. If Donald Trump decides to impose huge... Read More

On November 6, shortly after the results of the 2024 US elections became clear, Germany was plunged into political uncertainty when... Read More

Germany's "traffic-light" coalition is dead, thanks to its finance minister's refusal to let Chancellor Olaf Scholz open the spending... Read More

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, looks likely to achieve his longstanding dream and become the... Read More

Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to a... Read More

They are reminding an aloof Labour government who really keeps society moving. Read More

If you believe the messaging of the Trump transition, big cuts in U.S. government spending are coming. Announced cabinet appointments include... Read More

The IRGC is one of the most powerful organizations in Iran, conceived as the principal defender of the 1979 revolution, and now a critical... Read More

After more than two years of grinding conflict, Ukrainians are increasingly weary of the war with Russia. In Gallup’s latest surveys of... Read More

The bad news keeps coming. Wherever Kyiv looks, Moscow seems to have the advantage. Read More

The missile system is unlikely to be a game changer or silver bullet, but it’s important for several reasons.   Read More

Sweden and Finland have all begun warning their residents to prepare for the possibility of war as Russia’s full-scale invasion of... Read More

Nearly every day, the U.S. and its allies face cyber-attacks originating from some combination of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, along... Read More

It is now a truism that political leaders don’t initiate wars with the expectation that they will be protracted contests of attrition.... Read More

Latin America merits attention in its own right, but it also represents a southerly vector in the U.S. strategic competition against... Read More

Last April, it appeared as though escalation between Israel and Iran could plunge the entire Middle East into conflict.  Read More

The best that Israel can hope for in the short term is to push Hezbollah’s armed forces far enough from the border to allow the... Read More

For years, Tim Cook insisted Apple could change China from the inside. Instead, China changed Apple.   Read More

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory bodes well for US-Morocco relations. As King Mohamed VI recalled in... Read More

Donald Trump returns to the White House amid a new Gulf region he helped create. Trump’s aloof response to the September 2019 attack on... Read More

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and her allies are now part of a governing majority in the EU’s center of power.   Read More

The shocking police doorstepping of Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson last week has rightly sparked grave concern about... Read More

The controversy surrounding Rachel Reeves’ decision to impose inheritance tax on farms just won’t go away. Former adviser to Tony... Read More

Whatever one thinks of current U.S. strategy for the Ukraine war — and I tend to think it has been fairly good — President-elect... Read More

As the limits of U.S. power became more obvious, the Biden administration sought to perpetuate a fading primacy.   Read More

Western countries have been imposing sanctions on Russia since the war in Georgia in 2008. They have always been too little, too late, and... Read More

Peru gave Xi Jinping a warm welcome last week when he arrived for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima. The Chinese... Read More

Although the United States has long sought to reduce its involvement in the Middle East, the looming threat of regional war, opportunities... Read More

Anti-Zionist calls for Israel's eradication have not only paved the way for antisemitism in Europe and the US but also provide a rationale... Read More

My first thought upon seeing today’s revolt of the farmers was just how gloriously normal it looked. For more than a year London has... Read More