The next leader of Islamic State is likely to be from a close circle of battle-hardened Iraqi jihadists who emerged in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S. invasion, two Iraqi security officials and three independent analysts said. The group of potential successors to Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, who blew himself up …

China on Tuesday vowed to take countermeasures after the US announced a plan to sell $100 million worth of Patriot missile upgrades to the island of Taiwan, which would be the first US arms sale to the island in 2022 and the second under the Biden administration. The arms sale, …

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday there is an opportunity for further negotiations to de-escalate the crisis on the Ukraine-Russian border, after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Kyiv. “Our desire for the following weeks and months is for the situation to stabilize and for us to …

Максим Юсин — о посредничестве Франции в украинском кризисе Президент Владимир Путин считает, что в предложениях России о гарантиях по безопасности нет ни одного неисполнимого пункта. Об этом он заявил по итогам встречи с французским коллегой Эмманюэлем Макроном. Президент Франции в свою очередь признал, что добиться результата в таком вопросе …

Переговоры Макрона – Путина, заявления Блинкена – Борреля и переговоры Шольца – Байдена. Все это можно свести к нескольким ключевым выводам, как мне это видится. Западные партнеры окончательно согласовали между собой, что они будут продвигать имплементацию Минских соглашений как единственный способ для деэскалации и компромисса с РФ, самый безболезненный для …

The Russian threat… was very clear — that Russia would then be able to shut off its gas to Europe in the middle of winter [by means of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline], if it chose to, as a form of blackmail, at which point the US might then be …

No matter what anyone says, Turkey is determined to root out terrorist organizations that threaten the security, peace and stability of the country and the region, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday. Speaking to reporters on his way back from Ukraine where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Erdoğan …

Analysts say drone strikes intended to put the UAE on notice for its involvement in Yemen and normalisation of ties with Israel. The drone attack by a little-known armed group in Iraq on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week has raised questions about Baghdad’s involvement in regional tensions between …

US President Joe Biden surprised the world last week by announcing the death of the leader of Daesh, Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashimi Al-Qurashi, who had led the terrorist group since the killing of his predecessor, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, in a US raid in 2019. According to the president, Iraqi national Al-Qurashi …

In an article published February 5, 2022, titled “Russia And China As The Vanguard Of Multipolarity,” anti-liberal Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin stressed that the West-led unipolarity is “collapsing.” According to Dugin, Russia and China are the only two powers that that are “capable” of “effectively challenging” the Western “hegemony,” as …