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Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah continue to escalate in what Israel has called Operation Northern Arrows. Read More

Many in the Middle East and America hailed the September 27 Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Television stations... Read More

October 7th 2023 was a dark day for the Jewish people and all who believe in humanity. Not only did Hamas stage a bloody pogrom in Israel,... Read More

A successful, peaceful, and vibrant Gaza, in the image of the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel itself, would be the model not only for a better... Read More

Russians fear the country may be vulnerable to the sort of attacks employed by Israel against Hezbollah. Their proposed responses are... Read More

Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians Use Their Grief to Advocate for Reconciliation and Peace Together   Read More

Once again the world finds itself on the brink of a renewed energy crisis, and once again Europe appears ill-prepared. If Israel should... Read More

Michel Barnier was interviewed on prime time television on Thursday night and not once in his 45 minutes of conversation did he mention the... Read More

The United States and the European Union have faced similar challenges over the past couple of decades, with the financial crash and the... Read More

Trump wants higher tariffs and Harris tax credits for new factories but risk of a China Shock 2 calls for a national strategy not mere... Read More

With escalating US-China competition and mutual distrust, the trend of supply chain “friend shoring” in the wake of the COVID-19... Read More

One lesson would be to never underestimate your opponent as the Israeli government took lightly the threat posed by Hamas, which resulted in... Read More

Despite the operational and intelligence successes of Israel in Lebanon in September 2024, a troubling question hangs over the... Read More

Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel this week, only the second time Iran has attacked Israel directly, stood out for its large... Read More

In lieu of strategic military partnerships with the West, Sahelian regimes from Burkina Faso to Niger have pivoted to Moscow.   Read More

The Biden-Harris administration has boasted about recent steps that have resulted in more arrests for illegal border crossings. The... Read More

At home, the left sees him as cynical, conniving and corrupt; while the right sees him as tired, weak and unambitious. Abroad, he is almost... Read More

Last October 7, Hamas surprised Israel’s famed military and intelligence agencies. Both had known, for years, about the Palestinian... Read More

In the winter of 1940, with war raging across Europe, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave what would become his most famous public... Read More

The fixation on grand strategy neglects the fact that foreign policy is the product of politics.   Read More

Kamala Harris wants to be president, and she will say whatever it takes to get there. Her go-to solution for the swing states is to adopt... Read More

A war of attrition against Russia has never proved to be a good idea. From Napoleon’s France to Hitler’s Germany, many have... Read More

Taiwan has taken a big step towards bolstering civil defence, marshalling a range of resources and know-how across society.   Read More

China’s overcapacity has hit Europe’s economies hard, but it is also damaging Africa’s. With both continents suffering,... Read More

Central to President Reagan's foreign policy was a steadfast commitment to confronting America's greatest ideological rival, the Soviet... Read More

Ten-year-old Shen Hangping was walking to school when he was stabbed. Read More

Keir Starmer came away from his first visit to Brussels as prime minister with an agreement to keep talking.   Read More

Following her ruthless consolidation of power, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen had her first formal meeting... Read More

A revitalized Washington-London bond can continue to be a force for good in the world.   Read More

Like Big Tobacco in the 1950s, Meta funding and facilitating research to cast doubt on emerging consensus on social media’s many... Read More

New ‘misinformation’ laws could give the state unprecedented power over our speech on social media. Read More

Iran’s top advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that ties between Russia and Iran are expanding. Advisor Ali Akbar... Read More

Oil is the dog that has not barked since the Middle East blew up. If Iran had launched a full-blown missile strike at Israel at any... Read More

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, once a simple defensive alliance, now faces a crisis.   Read More

Known during the Soviet era as Lenin Square, Freedom Square, which appears to the eye more like ‘Freedom Roundabout’, is at the... Read More

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and his Republican challenger Dave McCormick agree on very few things.  Read More

On August 5, Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was forced to resign and flee to India after student-led protests turned into... Read More