Once both countries are admitted into the 30-member security bloc, NATO forces may be right next to the Finnish-Russian border. Russian President Vladimir Putin is waking up to a security disaster. In February, he said that his country’s “special operation” against Ukraine was a preemptive move to terminate NATO’s “endless” …

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is trying to turn what appears to be the most strategic move in NATO’s history into carpet-trading at Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. “The Russian-Kurdish nexus has been a recurring feature of Middle Eastern geopolitics for more than two hundred years, since Catherine the Great commissioned the publication …

Advocates say US should include more far-right Israeli groups on ‘terrorism’ blacklist, not delist Kahane Chai. Palestinian rights advocates have raised the alarm over US plans to remove a violent, far-right Israeli group from Washington’s list of “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTO), warning that such a move may embolden Kahane Chai’s …