Russia is preparing a bill to ban the “childfree ideology,” Deputy Minister of Justice Vsevolod Vukolov said , calling the conscious refusal to have children “extremistically oriented.” In his latest May decree defining Russia’s “national development goals,” Vladimir Putin ordered an increase in birth rates. The average number of children …

The Insider has obtained hacked correspondence of SVR employees responsible for the “information war” with the West. The leaked documents, which were prepared for various government agencies, reveal the Kremlin’s strategy in the field of information warfare: spreading disinformation on topics that are painful for Western society, leaking information on …

By removing Hezbollah from its terror list, the Arab League has sent a message to Iran and its terror proxies that they have a green light to pursue their terrorist attackers not only against Israel, but also against some of the Arab countries, especially the Gulf states. Many Lebanese citizens …

Elections in Iran are neither free nor fair, but they can still surprise. The election of reformist veteran lawmaker Masud Pezeshkian as Iran’s new president is one of those surprises. Pezeshkian beat his ultraconservative rival Saeed Jalili in a runoff vote on July 5, winning more than 16.3 million votes …

In a significant turn of events, reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has emerged victorious in Iran’s presidential election, defeating his hard-line rival, Saeed Jalili. The results were announced after Pezeshkian secured 53.3 percent of the more than 30 million votes counted, compared with Jalili’s 44.3 percent. This pivotal vote comes at …

The speculations about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Moscow, published in late June, were immediately picked up by the world media. Everyone understood that the interaction with Russia’s leadership would carry important political and symbolic significance as it would be the first foreign bilateral visit after India’s general elections …

The history of Jews in the majority-Kurdish city of Qamishli in northeast Syria is less ancient than in other Kurdish regions across the Middle East. It is not even comparable to that of the Jewish communities in Aleppo and Damascus. However, not only did this small community play a central …

Dans une déclaration commune adoptée à l’issue du sommet de l’Organisation de coopération de Shanghai (OCS) qui s’est tenu du 3 au 4 juillet à Astana, au Kazakhstan, il y a un point qu’il convient de bien mettre en exergue : «Les pays de l’OCS appellent à une réforme complète …

L’OTAN est sur le point de connaître un tournant. Il convient de rappeler que l’alliance militaire la plus réussie de l’histoire du monde a débuté comme un projet de paix et que son succès futur dépend de sa capacité à maintenir la paix. Mais aujourd’hui, au lieu de la paix, …

Ongoing operations have forced nearly 602 villages in Duhok province to evacuate, with villagers fleeing in fear of Turkish army shelling. The Turkish military has advanced 15 kilometers deep into Iraqi Kurdistan, targeting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of villages, according to a conflict …