The late March clashes between U.S. and Iran-backed militia forces in eastern Syria upended U.S. hopes that an Iran-Saudi rapprochement would usher in a period of regional stability and raised the potential for expanded U.S.-Iran hostilities.Iran’s alignment with Russia, and the willingness of the Arab Gulf states to engage with …

On Monday, Hungary’s legislature approved Finland’s accession to NATO, 265 days after Helsinki signed the protocols to join. The vote moves the long-delayed process forward, but it still leaves unaddressed both when exactly Hungary will take up Sweden’s accession and why the Hungarian government has taken so long. After all, …

Representatives of the pro-European opposition agree that the initiative of the People’s Party to call a referendum on the acceptance of the international agreement on Kosovo, which was recently accepted by both Serbia and Kosovo in Ohrid, is pointless, unnecessary, and that it expresses the anti-European mood of the political …