Muslims in the region are celebrating Eid al-Adha despite soaring prices. More than 2 million Muslims from around the world arrived in Saudi Arabia this week to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage in and around the holy city of Mecca, defying global inflation and rising prices across the globe. The …

The Israeli government has been warned that the Biden administration won’t stand idly by while settlers attack West Bank Palestinians. Shocking settler violence against West Bank Palestinians has polarized Israeli society and antagonized an already exasperated Biden administration. Israel’s top three security officials issued a joint communique on Saturday condemning …

In nowadays Russia, a country 60 percent of whose territory has historically belonged to ethnic groups of [East] Asian origin, it’s practically impossible to find someone with Mongolic facial features whose identity would have been widely known all across the country from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. The only exception to this …

The popular and picturesque term “soft power” has been increasingly used in recent years both in public discourse and in the academic community. The term was coined in 1990 by the American expert on politics and international relations, Joseph Nye. In short, soft power means the ability of a state/nation …

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined the leaders of seven NATO Allies in The Hague on Tuesday (27 June 2023) to help prepare the Alliance’s Summit in Vilnius. The meeting was co-hosted with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and included Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo …

Head of the National Iranian Oil Company Mohsen Khojastehmehr announced that preliminary work for bilateral cooperation between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the oil industry has already commenced, amid the revival of relations between the two countries. He stated during a press conference on Tuesday that there is currently no …

As the Ukraine war nears its 500th day, the key issue on the minds of international policymakers is what impact last weekend’s extraordinary mutiny of Wagner forces will have on the conflict. The uprising, which exposed the growing internal fissures within Russia, will do nothing to strengthen the country’s already …

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, has arrived in Belarus after staging a short-lived, aborted mutiny last weekend against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership over the fight against Ukraine, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday. It was not immediately clear where Prigozhin was in Belarus, how many …

The Defense Department announced an additional security assistance package of up to $500 million aimed at providing key capabilities to support Ukraine’s counteroffensive operations and defend against Russia’s war of aggression. The package includes additional armored vehicles, antiarmor systems and critical munitions for U.S.-provided Patriot air defense systems and High …

The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms. Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military government ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution. Yet sometime over the course of the past 240-plus years that constitutional republic …