India and China, the world’s two most populous nations with over 1.4 billion people each, are expected to be outranked by sub-Saharan Africa in the 2030s. A new analysis by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau (PRB) released last week indicates that while India’s population will soon eclipse China’s, its growth …

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric …

Instead of each subsequent meeting of the highest officials of Serbia and Kosovo being more and more simple and distracted from the danger that ordinary people, citizens of Kosovo, currently of Serbian nationality, are safer and removed from the danger to life and bare existence, despite the mutual consent to …

On Oct. 31, local units previously affiliated with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) launched a large-scale military operation against the al-Hafo-Harfoush group in the southern Syrian city of Daraa al-Balad. The units responsible for carrying out the operation in the Tariq al-Sad and al-Mukhayyam neighborhoods had chosen to remain in …

It has been an accepted fact that ISIS ceased being a territory-controlling entity in Syria after its March 2019 defeat in the town of Baghouz. Yet it is perhaps time to reevaluate this perspective on the group and its insurgent trajectory in the country. While recent massacres of civilians in …

Regarding the initiative to open the main bridge on the Ibar connecting the municipalities of North and South Mitrovica, KFOR says that this issue must be resolved through political dialogue. “The reopening of the bridge is an issue that must be resolved through political dialogue. The NATO mission, KFOR, continues …

The new head of the EULEX mission in Kosovo and Metohija is Carabinieri Major General Giovanni Pietro Barbano, who in his rich career already had experience with the Balkan countries. Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, was the first to announce that Italy would take over the EU mission. …

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said ahead of the new round of dialogue on the normalization of relations with Serbia that he will not allow the creation of some form of Republika Srpska in the north of Kosovo, Croatian news agency Hina reported today. At the meeting between Kurti and …

Most of the chiefs of general staff of the region’s armies, including the first man of the Serbian Army, Milan Mojsilović, at some point in their careers served in NATO structures, the official biographies of those people showed. According to the Balkan Security Network portal, out of a total of …

Réponses à la presse de Sergueï Lavrov, ministre des Affaires étrangères de la Fédération de Russie, lors d’une conférence de presse à l’issue de sa visite aux États-Unis dans le cadre de la présidence russe au Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU. Question : Vous avez dit que la Russie ne …