On the heels of the recent NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, it has again become clear that this small but ardent Baltic country is emblematic of a restructuring and rebalancing of European relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its Communist Party leadership. In 2021, Lithuania dared to …

Islamic State sleeper cells have regularly attacked government forces in central and eastern Syria despite losing the last of their territory in 2019. Suspected Islamic State militants attacked a Syrian military convoy in the Syrian desert overnight on Monday, resulting in the death of five government soldiers and the injury …

Belarus may start playing a bigger role in Russia’s use of Iranian drones in the war on Ukraine. Iran and Belarus signed a defense agreement on Monday, furthering cooperation between the two countries that now involves Shahed drones production that Russia has deployed in its war in Ukraine. Iranian Defense …

In the first visit of its kind in a decade, Egypt’s trade and industry minister traveled to Turkey on Tuesday. During a visit to Ankara, the first in a decade, Egypt’s Trade and Industry Minister Ahmed Samir Saleh and his Turkish counterpart Omer Bolat, announced Tuesday that they would seek …

The United Kingdom is the latest country to recognize the 2014 mass slaughter of Yazidis by the Islamic State as genocide. The United Kingdom joined the United Nations and 17 other governments and international bodies today in formally acknowledging that acts of genocide were committed against the Yazidi people by …

Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945. One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states. Yet since 1945, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Soviet Union/Russia, France, UK, …

On July 26, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its decision to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 5.25% to 5.50%, reaching the highest level in twenty-two years. This rate hike comes after the Federal Reserve paused its rate increases in June and represents a …

The recent signing of the Digital Ruble Bill into law by President Vladimir Putin has reinforced Russia’s commitment to the widespread implementation of its central bank digital currency (CBDC). The bill proposing the legalisation of Russia’s CBDC received approval from both houses of the country’s Parliament, the State Duma and …

Russian officials said Tuesday that a Ukrainian drone hit the 21st floor of a high-rise building in Moscow but that the country’s air defenses shot down two other drones on the outskirts of the Russian capital. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that the building hit was the same …

Fight against roots of crime in Kosovo Crime in Kosovo has its roots in the period of Kosovo’s government-in-exile. The epicenter of crime includes the former commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK-OVK) and (para)intelligence services (ShIK), who acted in cooperation with political structures. Although the ShIK was officially dissolved …