The war Russia is waging against Ukraine is unlike any the world is used to seeing. It stands out in terms of its scale and who is participating. Every war that ever happened since the Second World War ended has taken place in some economically marginal part of the world …

In 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, in the name of its special treatment in relation to China, Brussels was silent. Western diplomacy is currently supporting anti-democratic forces in the Balkans, falling into the dangerous trap that Belgrade and Moscow have set in response to Western involvement in Ukraine. Does this …

Iran will keep backing the Palestinian resistance, in words and in practice, in a course that leads to the complete downfall of the Israeli regime, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force commander said. Addressing a cultural ceremony in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad, Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani said the …

The U.S. Army this month is drilling to rapidly grow an American-led battlegroup in Poland that operates near the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, where soldiers are tasked with defending some of NATO’s most vulnerable terrain. The exercise, called Griffin Shock, calls for expanding the U.S.-led force from a battalion to …

There is no alternative to Ukraine joining NATO, Alar Karis, the president of Estonia, told Arab News in an exclusive interview at the presidential palace in the capital Tallinn on the margins of the annual Lennart Meri Conference on Friday. In recent days, 95 Estonian legislators have signed a statement …

One of the many jarring aspects of the pobedobesie (victory-mania) as Russia marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany every year is the commercialization — in particular, street vendors hawking tat to make a profit off the sacrifice of Soviet soldiers and civilians. Jarring, but also fitting. For this is …

When an oil depot in Russian-annexed Crimea was attacked in late April, the resulting fire sent a plume of thick black smoke into the sky. The incident at the facility in Sevastopol was one of at least five attacks on oil infrastructure in southern Russia in less than two weeks. …

The head of Russia’s private Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin on Friday said Moscow’s conventional army was leaving its positions near the eastern Ukraine hotspot town of Bakhmut. His comments came just after Russia’s Defense Ministry announced it had redeployed forces around to take up stronger defensive positions north of …

When an oil depot in Russian-annexed Crimea was attacked in late April, the resulting fire sent a plume of thick black smoke into the sky. The incident at the facility in Sevastopol was one of at least five attacks on oil infrastructure in southern Russia in less than two weeks. …

In March, the European Union announced an update to its 2014 Maritime Security Strategy (EUMSS), identifying both new and persisting threats to European security at sea. Undoubtedly, Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine helped influence the updated EUMSS approach to the Black and Mediterranean seas, with implicit and explicit …