The United Kingdom on Thursday hit out at China’s disqualification of four pro-democracy members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo), saying that the country is in breach of a 1984 treaty promising to protect the city’s freedoms. “Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong constitutes …

Russia occupies an unusual position on the world stage. Under President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has repeatedly demonstrated that it has the capacity to destabilize the international order, but not the capacity to fill the vacuum it is creating. While Russia lacks the military strength to challenge U.S. supremacy, no one—particularly …

The United States on Friday urged Japan and South Korea to speak out against China’s treatment of minority Muslims and its actions toward Hong Kong and Taiwan, despite their trading relationships with Beijing.

On November 7, 2020, Azerbaijani troops occupied the city of Shusha, which has been under the control of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since 1992. Three days later, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia signed a ceasefire agreement, according to which almost half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s territory was transferred to Azerbaijan. …

An Israeli strike against Iran is extremely complicated and has always been viewed by the IDF as a last resort. In 2008, after the election that brought former US president Barack Obama to power, there were some officials in Israel who were confident that the previous president, George W. Bush, …

Iraqi forces deliver heavy blows to remnants of the ISIS terrorist group in the country, with counter-terrorism efforts by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi facilitating the process. The forces faced the Daesh terrorists in the eastern Iraqi Diyala Province, Nineveh and al-Anbar Provinces in the country’s west, …

Aleppo Province- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored an armed attack by unknown assailants, believed to be Kurdish forces, on a military headquarters belonging to the “Suleiman Shah” faction in Sheikh Hadid in Afrin countryside, northwest of Aleppo, where clashes took place between the two sides, amid …

SOHR sources have monitored a spike in the death toll, following yesterday’s attack by the Islamic State on the area of Abu Fayyad dam east of Salamiyah in eastern Hama countryside. The death toll of regime soldiers and loyal militiamen rose to 21, who were killed in the ISIS’ surprise …

Analysts say the Council of Senior Scholars’ message means Saudi Arabia will not change policy on the Brotherhood following Biden’s victory in the US. The International Organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood has clashed with the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, describing it as a sycophant body, after the Council declared …

After surrounding the town and cutting off roads to and from the area, the Syrian army has enter al-Karak in search of militant sleeper cells reports Al-Masdar. The Syrian army entered the town of al-Karak on Thursday, following a string of recent attacks by militant sleeper cells against the military …