On a three-day visit in Washington, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met yesterday with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Kamala Harris. An unnamed State Department official said this morning that the United States is working to expand the Abraham Accords normalizing relations between …

The new election law was beneficial for large political blocs and independents, but it also harmed a number of large blocs whose presence in the new parliament has become almost marginal. The results of Iraq’s recent parliamentary elections came as a surprise to all, winners and losers included, indicating a …

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the nation “would do what is necessary” to clear Syrian border areas of Kurdish militants after missile attacks killed two Turkish police officers Sunday. Two years since its last Syria incursion, Ankara is hinting at a new cross-border military operation in response to a …

Hszi Csin-ping kínai elnök hétvégi beszéde újabb bizonyítéka volt annak, Kína az Egyesült Államok riválisa akar lenni a világpolitika színpadán, véget ért a békés „nézelődés” korszaka. A kínai pártvezér azt is tudatta, igényt tartanak Tajvanra. Bár a köztársaságban élők mindössze egy százaléka szeretne azonnal csatlakozni Kínához és öt százalékra tehető …

Nedělní ráno bylo jak probuzení ze zlého snu. Andrej Babiš de facto přestal být premiérem České republiky a změnil se v dosluhujícího předsedu vlády. Tedy člověka, který jen čeká na nástup nového kabinetu, balí si pomalu své věci. Dodělává, co musí dodělat, a ví, že půjde. Jinou variantu Babišovi výsledek …

A court in Kosovo on Tuesday ordered 30 days of pretrial detention for five suspects arrested last weekend as part of a months-long investigation in which police uncovered a cache of weapons and explosives. Prosecutors said in a statement the five suspects were planning to commit attacks against Kosovo’s “constitutional …

Turkish intelligence helped Iraq capture a senior Islamic State leader who had been hiding out in northwestern Syria, three security sources said on Tuesday, in an operation that points to closer cooperation against remnants of the jihadist group. Iraq announced on Monday that its security forces had captured Sami Jasim, …

Since 2007, the regional peacekeeping mission has assisted Somalia in its battle to stabilise its territory against Al-Shabaab militants. On Tuesday, the Somali government rejected an African Union (AU) proposal for a joint stabilization mission with the United Nations (UN) to spearhead peacekeeping operations in the country. It said that …

European Union officials have warned that the bloc “is at risk of collapse” unless it challenges a ruling by Poland’s top court over the supremacy of EU law, which is seen as a central pillar of European integration. Vera Jourova, the EU commissioner from the Czech Republic, said Monday: “If …

Gulf states are in a pickle. They fear that the emerging parameters of a reconfigured US commitment to security in the Middle East threaten to upend a more-than-a-century-old pillar of regional security and leave them with no good alternatives. The shaky pillar is the Gulf monarchies’ reliance on a powerful …