From Red Sea security to BRICS solidarity, a wider Middle East war would stress-test the continent’s fragile supply chains and geopolitical alliances, and put South Africa’s Iran links under a microscope. Here are five risks to watch. As US warships mass off the Iranian coast and Western allies scramble to …

This will one day link with the existing “military Schengen” between the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, which Belgium and France plan to join, for creating a contiguous zone of free military movement between the Pyrenees and the approach to St. Petersburg. The Baltic States’ Defense Ministers signed a statement of …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched an ambitious diplomatic offensive aimed at unifying the Sunni world under Ankara’s leadership. The objective is not merely reconciliation with former rivals. It is the construction of a Sunni diplomatic and strategic “wall,” or “noose,” around Israel, replacing the Iranian “Shi’ite crescent” with …