Spain is part of the international coalition to defeat ISIS, through which it had provided training to Peshmerga forces. Spain is preparing to open a consulate general in the Kurdistan Region’s capital Erbil, the country’s newly inaugurated ambassador, Pedro Martinez-Avial, told Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Thursday.

Près de deux ans après la sortie de l’UE, le Royaume-Uni paie aujourd’hui son impréparation face aux retombées du largage des amarres. L’économie bien comprise conduit tout naturellement à s’interroger sur le sens de notre société. Cette discipline, qui n’est pas que politique, invite à une pointe de philosophie, sans …

Frankreichs Präsidenten stehen schon lange nicht mehr über dem Gesetz. Das zeigt auch das jüngste Urteil gegen Ex-Staatschef Sarkozy. In Deutschland kursieren viele Klischees über Frankreich. Dazu gehört, dass sich Frankreichs Präsidenten, die sich als Ersatz-Monarchen sehen, anders als ihre deutschen Pendants saftige Skandale leisten und dabei klammheimlich auch noch …

Auf den ersten Blick wirkt das Urteil gegen Frankreichs Ex-Präsidenten Nicolas Sarkozy streng, aber gerecht: schuldig wegen illegaler Finanzierung des Wahlkampfes von 2012. Ein Jahr Haft ohne Bewährung, mit Fußfessel im Hausarrest. Das Urteil suggeriert dem Wähler, dass die Republik mustergültig und die Justiz blind ist. Es vermittelt den oft …

While Iraq is no longer the central power in the region, its history and geography make it an important player in the new Middle East. The Constitution of The Republic of Iraq, formulated in 2005 and approved in a referendum by more than three-quarters of the people, stated that “Iraq …

The Iranian regime should be brought to the “bomb or regime survival” dilemma. In his article, “Looking Straight in the Eyes of the Iranian Reality,” former prime minister Ehud Barak correctly analyzes the status of the Iranian nuclear project. His conclusion, however, according to which we have reached the point …

Israel does not currently have an effective military plan in place against Iran’s nuclear installations, but everything should change in the near future. Here’s the good news: unless something extreme and dramatic happens, we will not be seeing Israeli F-35s or F-15s taking off in the next couple of years …

The figure was responsible for planning, funding, and approving trans-regional al Qaeda attacks A senior al Qaeda leader has been killed in a drone strike in Syria, U.S. defense officials confirmed to Fox News Thursday. Salim Abu-Ahmad was killed in a U.S. airstrike near Idlib, Syria on Sept. 20. He …

It’s a bitter irony that the last embers of the Arab Spring may be snuffed out in the same place, Tunisia, where a spark first ignited massive pro-democracy fires across a region filled with dictatorships. Tunisians, at least some of them, seem to be stirring from their jaded acceptance of …

For the past decade and more, the U.S. and other international actors have prioritized a narrowly defined form of stability over democratic accountability in their diplomatic, development and security engagement in West Africa. The only problem is that this approach is not working. West African countries enjoy neither the stability …