The United States and Iran seem to be hardening their positions in advance of a resumption of negotiations to revive a 2015 international nuclear agreement once Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi takes office in early August. Concern among supporters of the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program which former US President …

Despite more than forty years of living under a rigid and repressive theocratic regime, Iranians are not people to take government failure or flagrant abuse of power lying down. Time and again they have demonstrated a willingness to stand up and be counted, defying the determined efforts of the state’s …

General Qamar Javed Bajwa the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, according to some media reports, has recently said to a group of some Pakistani parliamentarians that the [Pakistan] army would be “the first” to recognise the Taliban should they come to power. His stand was later on supported by …

As the deadline for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan looms, the Taliban has gone on the offensive, capturing over fifty additional districts in the country since May 2021. Several hundred Afghan soldiers have fled the country crossing to its neighbours to the north, with several thousand civilians reportedly applying for …

A report by a Bosnian Serb-funded commission has claimed the Srebrenica massacres were not genocide and most victims were not civilians – but some of its controversial assertions are contradicted by evidence heard at trials at international courts. A report published last week by a commission to scrutinise events in …

Вперше в історії Україна організовує Київський саміт дружин та чоловіків лідерів держав, запланований на 23 серпня. На цю ж дату заплановане проведення саміту «Кримської платформи». Проте поєднувати такі події – недоречно. Таку думку висловила в етері Громадського радіо політтехнологиня Катерина Одарченко. «Адже «Кримська платформа» має чітку мету – це деокупація …

Nejprve si řekněme jednu věc takto přímo do očí: Strašení přílivem migrantů v české politice funguje, i když drtivá většina lidí tady žádného uprchlíka neviděla ani z dálky. Na naši nervovou soustavu funguje strach z neznámého, cizího a nejistého poměrně spolehlivě, takže zneužití tématu migrace patří do arzenálu hlavně těch …

How a brief crisis at Europe’s borders created an opportunity to challenge a 70-year-old international law safeguarding the rights of refugees. Her real name cannot be revealed and even the particulars of her story were nearly lost to the Greek justice system. Her lawyers asked that we identify her by …

Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of greenery and biodiversity – who is of Macedonian descent – tells BIRN that Skopje must make the same tough choices as Paris has done, if it wants to remain liveable. If a Skopje mayoral candidate ahead of the autumn local elections promised to scrap …

Kosovo says it is the rightful owner of more than 160 properties belonging to Yugoslav-era socially-owned enterprises, and it wants them back. More than two decades since it broke away from Serbia in war, Kosovo is trying to claim ownership over more than 160 properties dotted around the former Yugoslavia. …