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As the U.S. sends THAAD, one of its most advanced anti-missile systems — along with 100 U.S. troops to crew it — to Israel,... Read More

In a statement carried by state television on Oct. 1, Iran’s military vowed to attack energy infrastructure in the Middle... Read More

The European project is approaching a tipping point. Read More

Russia’s southwestern Kursk region bordering Ukraine has been engulfed in battles with Kyiv’s troops for over two months.   Read More

Glory Be. Donald Tusk, the scourge of Brexit, the eurobully who turned a steady sneer into an acceptable expression of diplomatic protocol,... Read More

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) launched and completed the Joint Sword-2024B Exercise near Taiwan on Monday with a strong... Read More

There’s a fascinating tug of war taking place in China at the moment between the government and the markets. Its resolution will do... Read More

A year of conflict in the Middle East has destroyed the foreign-policy approach of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His... Read More

According to assessments, Sinwar is banking on a direct confrontation between Israel and Iran, hoping such a conflict would reduce military... Read More

Even staunch Lebanese opponents of Hezbollah, who have long hoped to see the back of Iran’s most important regional ally, are recoiling... Read More

David Friedman hopes that American diplomacy buoyed by the support of evangelicals will settle the Palestinian problem.   Read More

Oil prices were tumbling early Tuesday as weak demand in China topped traders’ list of worries ahead of conflict in the Middle... Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week confirmed reports of North Korean troops supporting Russians inside Ukraine, warning that... Read More

Readers have no doubt noticed that much of my writing over the past two-and-a-half years has focused on Russia. Some of the reasons for this... Read More

No progress on lifting restrictions on using Western weapons on Russian territory while prospect of Ukraine joining NATO still remote   Read More

Will Putin’s genocidal war against Ukraine end in 2025? If you believe the economic projections of three brilliant economists — a... Read More

Submarine operations are tightly held state secrets, so no wonder discerning fact from fiction regarding stories about them is daunting.... Read More

After 99 days of our new Labour Government, even The Guardian can’t hide its dismay at the chaos. With Rachel Reeves’ Budget... Read More

Emmanuel Macron is said to be appalled by his new right-wing government. A confidant of the French president conveyed to AFP the depth of his... Read More

Earlier this month, the China Coast Guard claimed to have entered the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol... Read More

Jan van Riebeeck, commander of the Dutch post at the Cape, ranted in a diary entry of 28 January 1654 that the indigenous people’s... Read More

The launch of Starship is an exciting milestone toward further exploration of the solar system.   Read More

A decade of military, humanitarian, and developmental European interventions in the Sahelian states of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have... Read More

There will be no lack of hard choices for the next administration’s Middle East policy.   Read More

On Oct. 7, Hamas fired rockets into Israel. This wasn’t the Oct. 7 of one year ago, but rather the one this week.   Read More

Netanyahu's strategy focuses on achieving victory in Israel's multifront war, aiming for long-term peace and security.   Read More

Despite being caught in the cross fire, the Lebanese people overwhelmingly reject both Iran’s imposition of conflict and Israel’s... Read More

Much recent media focus has rightly been on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, where Hamas... Read More

Ukraine is willing to surrender some of its territory to Russia if it means ending Moscow’s invasion, a major news website in Germany... Read More

Moving from burden-sharing to capability-based specialization ushered in a new, more effective era of transatlantic security.   Read More

Beijing is conducting espionage activities on what Western governments say is an unprecedented scale, mobilizing security agencies, private... Read More

China’s annual “Golden Week” is typically a time for travelling, spending time with family and tucking into festive treats... Read More

Canada felt serious pain when the U.S. closed its borders after 9/11. The Jean Chrétien government of the day reacted with a... Read More

A group of lawmakers within Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s governing Liberal Party is organizing to pressure him to step... Read More

President Javier Milei isn’t believed to have attended Sir Paul McCartney’s Buenos Aires concerts last weekend, but if he had, he... Read More

The European Union is about to enter what could prove to be the most ominous phase in its troubled history. In a few weeks, Ursula von der... Read More

What is President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s foreign policy plan? That’s a question that few have answers to, but... Read More

Mutual aid and civilian representative groups have proven their capability and deserve deeper European backing Read More

Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attack on Israel – its second in five months – put to rest any question that... Read More

To achieve stability and prosperity, the country needs international partners and an internal coalition that will help us get it right this... Read More

In early August, as Ukrainian forces burst across the Russian border on their way to capturing some 385 square miles of Russian territory in... Read More

An almost immediate response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine saw hundreds of Western brands declare their opposition and assert a... Read More

Viktor Orban has seized control of nearly all the levers of power in Hungary since he became prime minister in 2010, effectively turning the... Read More

If anyone wanted to witness a chemically-pure concentration of all the ailments afflicting the Western political class, they could not have... Read More

If you haven’t experienced the epic congestion of New York during United Nations week, count yourself lucky. If you have, you... Read More