The US might abandon its new interest in backing radical “security guarantees” for Ukraine due to worsening ties with Western Europe; increasingly Polish-led Central & Eastern Europe could replace Western Europe’s strategic importance for the US; and intra-EU rifts might accordingly widen. Trump announced that the US will impose 10% …

Death of International Law and Celebration “Power Policies” Question: Alexander Gelevich, let us turn to the turbulence of the turn of 2025-2026. We are witnessing a synchronous escalation: Venezuela, Greenland, Trump’s new rhetoric, instability around Iran. Why did this geopolitical “prodile” fall so hard? A.D.: We are present at the …

The Syrian army took control of the west of the Euphrates River, after controlling the city of Tabqa and the Euphrates Dam southwest of Raqqa, after several hours of clashes, at dawn on Sunday, January 18. Enab Baladi’s correspondent, who is accompanying the operations in the vicinity of the city …