Iraq’s leaders have a lot on their minds, stuck between Israel and Iran as the two countries veer closer to open conflict. Iraq is still recovering from the reign of Saddam Hussein, the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, decades of sanctions that followed the 1991 invasion of Kuwait, liberation by the …

A narrow victory for the “yes” camp in Moldova’s referendum on the EU is not exactly the result that pro-EU President Maia Sandu was hoping for. By calling for the referendum, the Soviet-born and Moldovan- and U.S.-educated Sandu was hoping to capitalize on EU support and largesse, as well as …

Bulgarians will head to the polls on 27 October for the seventh parliamentary election in three and a half years, but there is little hope that the country’s deep political crisis will end with the formation of a stable government. Polls by two leading agencies, Gallup International Balkan and Trend, …