Tunisian President Kais Saied has decided to strengthen diplomatic ties with Syria, the presidency said on Thursday, the clearest sign yet of Tunisia’s intention to fully restore relations days after a deadly earthquake that has devastated large parts of Syria. Tunisia cut off diplomatic relations with Syria nearly a decade …

Kurdish militants from the outlawed PKK group announced a temporary halt in fighting to facilitate rescue work after the huge earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and its main Western allies for waging …

Lessons From the West’s Botched Response to Moscow’s 2008 Assault on Georgia When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he was confident that this new assault on the rules-based international order would not be met with serious pushback—and with good reason. For more than a decade, Putin had gotten away …