The years that President Sharaa’s circle spent managing Idlib province now look less like improvised wartime governance and more like a deliberate long-term project to build the cadres of a future state. In recent weeks, Syria’s transitional authorities began a process of shuffling senior-level positions across the new government. This …

When the top international official overseeing the fragile peace agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina announced his resignation this week, analysts went into overdrive. Among other factors, many noted the public clashes between Christian Schmidt and Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik, who had never acknowledged his appointment and called him …

The war has shown that Iran’s one-way attack drones are highly adaptable tools of coercion and military effect, able to continue imposing costs across the Gulf region and beyond even after heavy losses. According to recent U.S. military estimates, as much as 85 percent of Iran’s drone arsenal and associated …

He once walked the halls of global financial institutions and hobnobbed with Europe’s elite, but today the Belgian prince and disgraced banker Henri de Croÿ has reinvented himself as an affable Colombian hotelier. Ditching the suit and tie of a high-flying financier, he was spotted recently in leather moccasins and …

The much-anticipated meeting in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping ended without any significant tangible breakthrough in relations between the United States and China. Behind the facade of cordial relations between the leaders, the differences between Washington and Beijing over trade, Taiwan, and Iran became apparent at the end …

Over the past decade, China has been steadily reshaping the global nuclear order. According to U.S. government assessments, Beijing has almost tripled its stockpile of nuclear warheads since 2019. It has rapidly increased its nuclear capabilities on land, in the air, and at sea. It has significantly expanded its infrastructure …

On 19 April 2026, Argentina’s self-proclaimed “most Zionist president in the world,” Javier Milei, arrived in Jerusalem. After greeting his “dearest friend” Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and affirming his support for the US-Israeli war on Iran, he signed a series of agreements to strengthen ties between Argentina and Israel …

Azerbaijan is rapidly approaching the United States and NATO as Washington shifts its geopolitical attention from the Russian-Ukrainian war to the South Caucasus. Azerbaijan’s expanding military, political and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into a new center of geopolitical confrontation with the participation of Russia, Iran …

Both countries have retained or restored significant public capacity in their strategic economic sectors, which is the opposite of what the structural adjustment programmes were prescribed for the countries of the Global South. The first part of the series looked at the structural gap between formal independence and real sovereignty, …

Iran US War Live Updates: Following a Friday afternoon call with several Middle Eastern leaders, President Trump announced that a peace deal with Iran is “largely negotiated,” with final details currently being finalized for a fast-approaching announcement. The latest proposal reportedly includes a process to reopen the strategic Strait of …