Le 23 août dernier, le tristement célèbre Evguéni Prigojine, propriétaire de la compagnie militaire privée Wagner, trouvait la mort en Russie dans le crash de l’avion qui le transportait, en compagnie de plusieurs hauts responsables de la milice, dont le fondateur de celle-ci Dmitri Outkine. La nouvelle a immédiatement suscité …

L’élargissement de la zone des BRICS a laissé de nombreux analystes perplexes. Et a plongé les hommes politiques et les opérateurs économiques dans une sorte d’état de confusion. La démonstration – s’il en était besoin – du vieil adage selon lequel les dieux aveuglent ceux qu’ils veulent perdre. Car ce …

En 2003, pour faire sa guerre contre l’Irak, le président américain W. Bush avait fait fi du Droit international et de toutes les résolutions de l’ONU l’enjoignant à ne pas se lancer dans cette aventure aux conséquences incalculables et pour les peuples de toute la région du Moyen-Orient et pour …

China’s economy is turning into a big black blob. This transformation means that while the country’s economy will still be significant to global business, it will no longer be the lodestar for growth. It will still advance, but much more slowly. And while those on the outside will still be …

Clashes broke out Monday between two U.S.-backed groups in eastern Syria, leaving three gunmen dead and raising tensions in the region where hundreds of American troops are deployed, opposition activists said. The clashes raise concerns of more divisions between U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters in eastern Syria that borders Iraq …

The Real Toll of Beijing’s Belt and Road This year marks the tenth anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, the largest and most ambitious infrastructure development project in human history. China has lent more than $1 trillion to more than 100 countries through the scheme, dwarfing …

Raphael Luzon claims he initiated the first bilateral meeting that led to the top-level meeting in Rome last week, which Tripoli now disavows On Sunday, Israel announced that Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his Libyan counterpart, Najla Mangoush, last week in Italy, the first-ever official meeting between the countries’ …

2 Libyan officials say their PM was aware of talks, and Najla Mangoush flees to Turkey for safety, as storm grows after Israel’s Eli Cohen publicized their Italy sit-down Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush was dismissed Monday over a meeting she held last week with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen, …

As Afghanistan marks two years under Taliban rule, the world remains apprehensive about the nation’s potential resurgence as a safe haven for international terrorism. The world’s worst fears were confirmed over a year ago when the U.S. identified al-Qaeda leader Aimen al-Zawahiri in Kabul before killing him in a drone …

The Libyan government suspended Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush after Israel revealed she had met with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen last week in Italy. Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh suspended Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush Sunday evening, after the Israeli Foreign Ministry revealed that she had met last week in Rome …