Top Iranian officials reportedly authorized Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi to “advance any diplomatic initiative in relation to the United States,” according to an Iranian expert close to the regime.[1] It is not clear who precisely authorized Araghchi to begin “any diplomatic initiative,” but Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would …

US, Ukrainian, and Russian officials reached some agreements for temporary ceasefires on strikes against energy infrastructure and in the Black Sea. The details of these ceasefires remain unclear and evaluating the ceasefires’ specifics in the absence of officially published joint texts of the agreements signed by Russia and Ukraine remains …

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Self-determination movements of former colonies often advanced together toward independence. The ideological backing of socialist states in the Eastern Bloc and various Asian and Islamic countries fueled many anti-colonial movements. However, this left-Islamist alliance has adopted starkly different stances on the Kurdish and Palestinian struggles. This disparity has led to …

Hundreds of Democrat party political hacks who happen to have attended law school for a couple of years have been rewarded for their hackism with appointments as federal district court judges. Armed with lifetime tenure and dressed in spooky looking black robes, they behave like an army of some 700 …

It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Bashar al-Assad interim government took violence against non-Sunni Muslims into their own hands. Reports emerged early on March 9 about large-scale round-ups, home invasions and subsequent street executions of Alawite Syrians in the Alawi …

For the first time in his long political career, President Aleksandar Vučić faces a serious public challenge to his leadership. However, his staying power remains strong. The EU has an opportunity to play a significant role in mitigating the unrest while luring Serbia out of Russia’s orbit. The ongoing protests …

Avec le vote du Parlement européen en faveur du plan de réarmement (419 OUI, 204 NON, 46 abstentions), je pense que nous pouvons dire que, symboliquement, à partir d’aujourd’hui, la démocratie en Europe a disparu ; déjà flétrie depuis un bon bout de temps, nous constatons amèrement, aujourd’hui, que les …

Régis Chamagne, colonel de l’armée de l’air française, a été commandant de l’escadrille de Mirage F1C à Cambrai puis commandant de l’escadrille de reconnaissance sur Mirage F1C à Strasbourg. Commandeur de la Légion d’honneur, Commandeur de l’Ordre national du Mérite. L’officier militaire, qui fait autorité, s’est exprimé sur les grandes …

Les alliés des États-Unis en Europe et en Asie envisagent de créer leur propre arme nucléaire en raison des actions du président américain Donald Trump et de sa sympathie pour la Russie. Après le retour de Trump à la Maison-Blanche, l’Allemagne, la Pologne, la Corée du Sud et le Japon …