Europe’s greatest strategic failure was not that it misread Russia. It was that it forgot geography. Russia is not some sort of theoretical adversary conjured up by this paper. Russia is Europe’s permanent neighbour. It is a continental, cultural, energy, military and civilizational fact. Russia cannot be sanctioned out of …

China-linked ships were permitted through the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces as Trump and Xi held what the US president described as “extremely positive”. Iranian media reported that Tehran allowed Chinese vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz as US President Donald Trump praised “extremely positive” talks with …

The UAE and Israel are making conflicting claims about an alleged visit by Israeli PM Netanyahu to the Gulf state – what do we know so far? Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly greeted in the UAE ‘with the honour of kings’ [Getty] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday …