Most people know Qatar only because this small Gulf state hosted the 2022 World Cup, a tournament intended primarily to ...

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result that was analysed carefully in neighbouring Azerbaijan. The ruling ...

Lindsey Graham is dead. 71 years old. A brief, sudden illness, his office reports. Shortly before that, he had been in Kyiv.

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I am asked how I can stand up for Jews in general and Israel in particular, now that a United Nations commission of inquiry ...

The November Men' (1993) purports to be about a director making a docudrama about a plot to kill the president. The ...

As Donald Trump arrived in Ankara this week to reset relations with Turkey, the visit immediately raised questions extending far beyond NATO diplomacy. At a ...

The visit of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Baku on 1 July 2026 marks more than another milestone in Azerbaijan–European Union relations. It signals a broader geopolitical ...

Dr Ken van Ierlant is a Dutch data entrepreneur and the CEO of FutureXL, based in The Hague. He writes about data innovation and a wide variety of geopolitical issues, specialising in the ...

What is unfolding in Syria today can be most accurately understood not as a conventional political transition, but as the gradual emergence of a military-centred state apparatus—one in which the army, ...

To embrace the arts is to open one’s mind to the possibility that the impossible is within reach. At Beirut's historic Le Monnot theatre, you quickly feel less in a physical space and more in an ...