Google has found itself back in the crosshairs of a geopolitical battle over President Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with officials from Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan during the 3rd Caspian ...

Geopolitics quaked after the US left its European allies in the lurch over a Ukraine peace deal. Nato’s rupture isn’t all. A worst-case scenario of the future may see China gain greater power. India ...

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.

A special envoy to the Caspian Sea region would help counter China, Russia, and Iran—and end the impression that Washington ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast ... North Korea and Iran, both sworn U.S.

Congress had budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter nations considered the world's least free.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will lead Ukraine’s delegation at the Munich Security Conference next week, which U.S. Vice ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran used Russian-made long-range air defence systems in a military exercise on Wednesday, following Israeli strikes last October which Israel said had seriously weakened Tehran's ...

He is the author of the 2018 book, Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood, an exploration of border conflicts, unrecognized countries, and changes to the world map. Hours after ...

Google’s maps division reportedly reclassified the US as a “sensitive country" – like Russia and China – on Monday. It's a designation it reserves for states/countries with strict ...

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