Scholz in Washington; Macron in Moskau, Kiew und Berlin, wo er den Kanzler und den polnischen Präsidenten Duda trifft; Scholz nächste Woche in Moskau – der deutschen und der französischen Führung ist kein Weg zu weit beim Versuch, den Kreml von einem Überfall auf die Ukraine abzuhalten. Putin soll ganz …

Komentář Petra Fischera: Kam se ztratilo Německo? ptá se v poslední době celá Evropa, když sleduje rostoucí napětí na ukrajinsko-ruských hranicích, jehož klidnění se Němci spíše vyhýbají. Německo je pořád tady, odmítá kritiku německá vláda, vždyť ministryně zahraničí Annalena Baerbocková byla v Moskvě i v Kyjevě a spolkový kancléř Olaf …

Belgian police arrested 13 suspected members of an Islamist terror group in an operation in Antwerp on Tuesday. The suspects were detained for spreading jihadist propaganda on social media, though police said it was unclear whether they had made concrete plans to launch an attack. Around 100 police officers were …

US Central Command chief says F-22 Raptor squadron will arrive in Emirates next week The US military commander in the Middle East is planning to target Houthi missiles and drones on the ground before they are fired towards the UAE. Lt Gen Kenneth McKenzie said the plan is part of …

In a January 28 interview with the Russian media about the Ukraine crisis, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said, “if it depends on the Russian Federation, there will not be a war.” He also suggested that there were “kernels of rationality” in the formal responses to Russia’s demands that …

The influence of religious schools is growing in Idlib, with their fundamentalist curricula under the supervision of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Amid the deteriorating conditions in public schools in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib and lack of funding, with teachers who have worked without getting paid for years going on regular …

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has arrested a number of figures belonging to jihadi groups, such as Hurras al-Din and Sham al-Islam, in an ongoing arrest campaign against rivals and former allies. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, has recently stepped up its arrest campaign against al-Qaeda-affiliated …

Unless the US and Iran reach an agreement that imposes meaningful, long-term restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear activities, any deal reached in Vienna is unlikely to prove politically durable. Last week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) took to the Senate floor to rip the Biden’s administration’s Iran policy …

While U.S. President Joe Biden seems determined to reduce the U.S. footprint in the Middle East, finally embracing Washington’s long-discussed pivot to Asia, French President Emmanuel Macron is headed in the opposite direction. In recent years, Macron has made repeated trips to Lebanon, Iraq and the Gulf states, and launched …

In late November, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited Morocco to formalize military cooperation between both countries with the signing of a memorandum of understanding. Gantz’s trip came a year after Morocco normalized its diplomatic relations with Israel and follows a previous visit by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to Rabat …