On July 27, 2021, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin – amid a diplomatic standoff with China – said: “We will not flinch when our interests are threatened. Yet we do not seek confrontation.” The message is clear: the US is turning its gaze to Asia and wants China to …

Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in as Iran’s next president on August 5, marking a defining moment in the situation around the nuclear issue. Having weathered the brunt of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’, Tehran is in a better situation today. The international situation works in its favour too. Iran has gained …

The Saudi state-owned oil company said reports it will engage in the process of creating cryptocurrency are “false.” Saudi Arabia’s state oil company has denied reports it will make more of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Aramco called claims they would engage in Bitcoin mining “false and inaccurate” in a Monday press …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States is confident that Iran carried out the attack on the Israeli-linked oil tanker. The United States is “confident” that Iran is responsible for an attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two crew members off the coast of Oman last …

There are indications the Kremlin is about to revise its approach to Israel in order to force the Israel Defense Forces into accepting new rules of the regional game. The end of Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power in Israel fueled media speculation of what it means for Russian-Israeli coordination in …

The new Iranian president said he will push to get harsh sanctions lifted without hinging Iran’s battered economy on the West. As he was officially endorsed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran Aug. 3, Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi pledged to get the country’s sanctions-stricken economy back on …

В миграционном кризисе, который возник из-за конфликта Литвы и Белоруссии, примечательнее всего индифферентное отношение Евросоюза к проблемам государства-члена. Литовские руководители подчёркивают, что проблема носит общеевропейский характер, не является продуктом исключительно белорусско-литовских отношений, и даже утверждают, что получают серьёзную поддержку от ЕС. Однако это больше похоже на сохранение лица и своего …

Гуманітарна допомога у вигляді колючого дроту виглядає досить дивно, проте саме так Україна планує підтримати Литву. І ця допомога справді потрібна Вільнюсу, який потерпає від небаченої навали мігрантів. Стабільним постачальником мігрантів до Євросоюзу через кордон з Литвою стала Білорусь. Більш того, Литва напряму звинувачує самопроголошеного білоруського президента Александра Лукашенка в …

The U.S. official who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide landed Saturday in Sudan, aiming to support the country’s fragile transition to democracy before travelling to Ethiopia to press the government there to allow humanitarian aid to the war-torn Tigray region. Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for …

Egypt’s military said Sunday it has killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an affiliate of ISIS has been active for nearly a decade. “Amid ongoing efforts in pursuing and defeating terrorist elements… during the previous period, the armed forces… carried out operations that killed …