The Ministry of Defense’s Media and Communications Directorate announced that Syrian army forces have taken over the al-Shaddadi military base in the southern countryside of al-Hasakah (northeastern Syria), following coordination with the American side. The move comes as part of a series of rapidly unfolding military developments in eastern Syria, …

On February 9, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan suggested that Turkey would begin developing nuclear weapons should Iran obtain them. During a televised interview with CNN Turk, Fidan warned that Iranian nuclearization would upset the “balance of power” in the Middle East and likely initiate a regional nuclear arms race, …

The EU’s ‘awkward squad’ – namely, Hungary and Slovakia – were both targets for criticism this week by European institutions angry at how those two governments are subverting the rule of law and stymieing anticorruption efforts. On Thursday, a senior legal adviser to Europe’s top court, the ECJ, said that …