For two decades, the entire world was under threat from an insidious group, which at its peak claimed the lives of thousands through a series of bombings and attacks, including the events of Sept. 11, 2001, which to this day remains the deadliest terror attack in history. Al-Qaeda, once among …
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How Hope Can Rise From The Rubble – OpEd
As part of the diplomatic and emergency relief efforts since the devastating earthquake struck Turkiye and Syria, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken traveled to Adana province to oversee US assistance and pledge a further $100 million in aid. This brought the total US earthquake relief contribution to $185 million, …
Read More »New Geopolitical Reality: Strategic Partnership Between Serbia And The UAE – Analysis
At the beginning of February in Belgrade, representatives of the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering of the Republic of Serbia and representatives of the Financial Intelligence Service of the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement on the prevention of money laundering. The signing ceremony was also attended by …
Read More »Kremlin Planned To Absorb Belarus After Achieving Regime Change In Ukraine, New Document Shows – OpEd
The Dossier Center has obtained a Kremlin document which shows that Moscow intended to gradually absorb Belarus into the Russian Federation over the next decade after it achieved regime change in Ukraine by military means. Russia’s inability to do the latter so far has in no way changed Moscow’s plans …
Read More »The Ukraine War, Sanctions, And The Resilient Russian Economy – Analysis
A year into the war in Ukraine and, despite the consequent worldwide economic sanctions, the Russian economy remains resilient, shrinking by a modest 2.2 percent in 2022 in stark contrast to the estimated 15 percent or greater as forecasted by the Biden administration and other western economists. According to the …
Read More »Now for the hard part: A guide to implementing NATO’s new Strategic Concept
Last month’s NATO Summit, which featured the release of the Alliance’s new Strategic Concept, was a remarkable success. Thanks to strong leadership by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US President Joe Biden, the Alliance remains united despite an array of new strategic challenges. The concept’s three core tasks—collective defense, crisis …
Read More »Russia policy after the war: A new strategy of containment
As Vladimir Putin’s world-altering war against Ukraine enters its second year, any hope of reviving the post-Cold War European security order depends on defeating Russia in Ukraine. But that will only be the first step in what will be a long struggle—one that calls for an updated strategy of containment. …
Read More »INTERVIEW Šaip Kamberi, PDD MP: The Brussels dialogue is the last possibility to affirm the political position of the Albanians of the Preševo Valley.
I expect that both sides in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina next Monday will accept the “European proposal” as a good basis for reaching an agreement. I don’t know if anything will be signed that day, but I expect that these talks will give new impetus and progress towards …
Read More »Increased number of Serbian soldiers in the Helbruk combat group, which includes members from Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Ukraine and Serbia
The Parliamentary Committee for Defense and Internal Affairs adopted today the Government’s proposal on amendments to the Decision on the use of the Serbian Armed Forces and other defense forces, which foresees that the number of personnel in international missions will increase from the current 700 to 800. The increase …
Read More »BINKA: Ugljanin cannot represent all Bosniaks in Serbia
The leader of SDA Sandžak, Sulejman Ugljanin, at the last press conference, came up with a figure of about 70 percent of Bosniaks, represented by his and the Justice and Reconciliation Party (SPP). The gathering came after the signing of an agreement between the two parties on the formation of …
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