World War II and its aftermath shaped Berlin’s approach toward NATO, the EU, and Moscow. Russia’s war on Ukraine ends that era. It is impossible to miss. It is a small black plaque at the entrance to Reichenbach im Vogtland’s elegant town hall. Engraved are three short paragraphs. The first …

Washington’s miscalculations in the Ukrainian conflict can have devastating consequences for the world. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, much has been said about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s miscalculations. Last October, I wrote about Putin’s vanity and megalomania which led him to overestimate Russian military capabilities, underestimate Ukrainian …

The conflict between Sudan’s rival military factions is triggering massive population displacements that are stressing the region’s already fragile coping systems. Highlights The conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) commanded by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) headed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has …

‘It is completely unacceptable that PKK terrorists continue to operate freely in Sweden,’ Communications Director Fahrettin Altun says ANKARA Türkiye on Tuesday called on Stockholm to take action against PKK terrorists in Sweden. “It is completely unacceptable that PKK terrorists continue to operate freely in Sweden -which has applied for …

Five members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command militant group were killed in a blast overnight near Lebanon’s border with Syria, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, with the group blaming Israel but security sources disputing the account. An Israeli source told Reuters the Israeli military was …

The Syrian Army aviation bombed today several headquarters of the radical groups that dominate areas in the northern province of Idlib, reported military quoted by the media here. The sources said the airstrikes destroyed three headquarters of the Ansar Tawhid and Houras Al-Din groups in the town of Sarjeh in …

The U.S. transferred the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) – a light multiple rocket launcher mounted on a standard Army Medium Tactical Vehicle (MTV) to the PKK’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG terrorists in Syria, sources said Tuesday. HIMARS was transferred to the U.S.base in northern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province, …

Debating Israel’s One-State Reality Dangerous DelusionsMichael Oren Anyone seeking to understand why U.S. policy in the Middle East keeps failing—especially on the Israeli-Palestinian issue—need only read “Israel’s One-State Reality” (May/June 2023) by Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami. The essay suffers from the same refusal to face …

Thousands of citizens from all over Serbia set off for Belgrade on Friday, May 26. Their destination was “the largest gathering in the history of Serbia,” as the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) announced the Serbia Hope rally . Along several Belgrade streets and boulevards, endless columns of parked vehicles …

The war in Ukraine – regarded by some as a war of values, a confrontation between democracy and authoritarianism – has put into sharp focus the need for Western democracies to find remedies to their own internal crises. The war in Ukraine, which is pitting Russian authoritarianism against the democratic …