It was all a fitting reminder of Bertolt Brecht’s remark that bank robbery lies in the province of amateurs. The real professionals of plunder establish banks. Last month, the labours of Buzzfeed and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed just that. Centre stage: international banking misbehaviour. And my, was …

Wherever we lift one soul from a life of poverty, we are defending human rights. And whenever we fail in this mission, we are failing human rights. — Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General Among other items “proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,” the preamble to the …

The United States has accused six officers from the Main Directorate of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces (the GU, formerly known as the Main Intelligence Directorate or GRU) of involvement in a series of large-scale cyberattacks. According to the indictment, these Russian nationals are all officers in Unit …

Multiple incidents appear to point to a rising tempo of tensions. Foreign media reports indicate that the Hezbollah and pro-Iranian presence has grown.

Russian warplanes have carried out a devastating attack that targeted a convoy of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham vehicles, as they travelled to the Idleb frontlines reports Al-Masdar.

We continue to keep you informed about what is happening in some of the hotspots in Asia and the Middle East. According to local Syrian sources, Russian bombers struck a powerful air strike on a convoy and assembly point with Syrian mercenaries, who, according to unconfirmed information, had gone to …

After Iran warned the two warring parties in Nagorno-Karabakh that it would retaliate if the Islamic Republic’s airspace was violated, Russia did the same for Russia’s military base near the Turkish-Armenian border.

La guerre entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan Le 27 septembre 2020 les hostilités ont repris entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan. C’est un conflit international entre deux États souverains qui dure depuis 1992, date à laquelle les troupes régulières de l’Arménie ont engagé des offensives sur toutes les lignes des frontières entre l’Arménie …

Féru de nouvelles technologies, le prince héritier d’Arabie saoudite a rompu avec l’équilibre traditionnel entre les différents clans du royaume. Comme le montre l’assassinat de Jamal Khashoggi en Turquie ou la séquestration du Premier ministre libanais dans un hôtel, son despotisme 2.0 ne connaît pas de frontières.

The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics in South Korea and American businesses. The case implicates the same Kremlin unit that interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections, but is not related to the November vote.