Last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei effectively greenlit mass killings to save his regime. His message was blunt: ...

The SDF and the armed factions that assumed control in Damascus also have more than a decade of tensions and hostilities ...

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The European Union has announced plans to sanction Israel over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. If adopted, the move would ...

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Afghanistan Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that the Taliban were committed to the 1973 water treaty between Afghanistan and Iran. But he added that “the drought in Afghanistan and the ...

“a significant infrastructure and connectivity project to enhance broader transcontinental integration between Asia, the Arabian Gulf, and Europe, or what I call the Eurasian rimland. It seeks to ...

“The Chinese are adept at using economic power to build influence…[and] the Americans don’t have that same capacity anymore,” said Robert S. Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and senior fellow at ...

“Any supply disruption to Spain will be felt as higher prices for consumers on European supermarket shelves approximately four months from now,” said Michaël Tanchum, an expert on food security and a ...