At a moment of escalating war of words, Iran’s president said Israel will face destruction should it strike his country, which the Jewish state has long considered as an existential threat. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi threatened Israel with annihilation in an address marking the Islamic Republic’s Army Day in Tehran …

The planned visit by a Hamas delegation to Riyadh reflects Saudi Arabia’s new diplomatic priorities, which do not include normalization with Israel. Meeting in Jerusalem with US Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel wants normalization and peace with Saudi Arabia. “We view [normalization] as …

In the elections for mayors and councilors in majority-Serb municipalities in the North of Kosovo, only two candidates for mayors and one electoral list from the Serbian community ran. Apart from the Civic Initiative “Mitrovica”, which includes one party of the Bosniak minority, there are other Albanian parties, and their …

The US expects Serbia and Kosovo to fulfill everything agreed in the previous negotiations, including the formation of the Community of Municipalities with a Serbian majority, the State Department told the Voice of America this evening in response to a question about the implementation of what was agreed in Ohrid. …

Even today, ten years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, he insists that this and other agreements must be fulfilled and the Association of Serbian Municipalities be formed, the attitude and memory of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, regarding that first agreement on the principles of normalization of …

Now it can be seen that, after ten years, the Brussels process has returned to the beginning in a political sense. Once again, the Serbs are outside the institutions and are boycotting the elections, and they were returned to that again in 2013. The government in Belgrade got ten years, …

In what was seen as an escalation by the Sudanese regular armed forces (SAF), units belonging to the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) poured into the northern Sudanese town of Merowe, site of a strategic airport, in early April. Negotiators, both foreign and domestic, were working to defuse the situation …

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, after the meeting with the President of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said that the statements of the Undersecretary of the State Department, James Rubin, about Serbia being one of the centers for Russian disinformation are far from the truth. Vučić pointed out that …

With China opening an average of two new coal-fired power plants a week and India apparently more determined than ever to continue its development curve, as is the entire non-Western world, global CO2 emissions will continue to rise for the foreseeable future. There is not yet any available, inexpensive alternative …

Summary:The EU has been stepping up its engagement with Central Asia, including on regional cooperation, energy, and connectivity. But to gain more clout, the union must present a positive alternative to powers like China and Russia. The EU’s stakes in Central Asia—a region the union has traditionally kept at a …