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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

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

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

Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and... Read More

Over the past three weeks Israel has delivered an exceptional masterclass in intelligence-led military operations. Read More

For almost a year, many hoped that Israel's war with Hamas would not spread beyond Gaza. But attacks on northern Israel by Hezbollah in... Read More

Despite the gap in its command-and-control structure, the group has been galvanized by Israeli operations.   Read More

Iran’s ballistic missile strikes on Israel on October 1 have raised fears of an all-out war in the Middle East. Read More

So goes the final stanza of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s most famous poem: “Do not go gentle into that good night.”   Read More

With Russian forces continuing to grind forward in Ukraine, the West needs a new approach to shore up its embattled ally.   Read More

U.S. has a long history of missing adversary cues that if understood and processed could have prevented or shortened many a conflict   Read More

While Beijing and Moscow have been working to establish a strategic foothold in the region for more than a decade, Washington and Brussels... Read More

A new scientific report on the origins of COVID-19 has renewed debate on exactly what caused the deadliest event of the... Read More

Mario Draghi's economic plan is a barely disguised power grab on behalf of the Brussels elite. Read More

Keir Starmer travels to Brussels with the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme high on the agenda.   Read More

NATO’s changing of the guard takes place while war rages in Ukraine and as the future of transatlantic relations remains uncertain. It... Read More

Anyone looking for a parody of fiscal policy needs to look no further than France. The French government has been in breach of the EU’s... Read More

After Iran’s second direct missile attack on Israel in less than six months, all eyes are on Israel’s next move. Reports suggest... Read More

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, learned the limits of his foreign policy strategy this week: Even well-armed and... Read More

For the second time in less than half a year, Iran has hurled hundreds of missiles at Israel. Although Iran technically launched more weapons... Read More

The myth of Hezbollah has been shattered in Lebanon. The militant group’s facade of strength has been fractured by multiple... Read More

 In a dusty sky, the last storks of Donbas fly off to other horizons for the winter. Their supple wings, in the evening light, glide... Read More

Chinese property shares had dropped 70-90% since 2021 but rebounded by 100-300% over the past week   Read More