Ukraine’s relationship with the US has improved over the last month with President Donald Trump expressing growing impatience with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s tactical dissimulation over ending the war. Conversely, the already poor dynamic between Ukraine and one of its immediate neighbours, Hungary, appears to have worsened significantly. On May …

The joint Lebanese-Palestinian committee, which convened on Friday in the presence of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam of Lebanon, agreed to begin implementing the directives outlined in the joint statement issued by the Lebanese-Palestinian summit held on Wednesday in Beirut, in terms of restricting weapons to the hands of the Lebanese …

The Trump administration’s pursuit of a negotiated agreement over Iran’s nuclear program is the only sound policy that can prevent a regional conflagration. Beyond that, it offers a unique opportunity that can change the regional security trajectory and potentially usher in long-term peace and stability The negotiations between the United …

Tehran has announced that it will resume drilling for oil and gas in the Caspian. It stopped such drilling in 1997 and ended its deep-water petroleum operations on that sea in 2014, but it now hopes to actively exploit the more than 600 million barrels of oil and 56.6 billion …

Truck drivers across Iran have launched a nationwide strike over rising insurance and maintenance costs and worsening economic conditions.[1] The truck drivers are protesting the government’s plan to cut the amount of subsidized diesel allocated to truckers.[2] Strikers also cited unaffordable insurance premiums, stagnant freight rates, and deteriorating road infrastructure.[3] …

Few other countries in the past five years have experienced as great a shift in fortune as Azerbaijan. As recently as 2020, the small, oil- and natural-gas-rich country was mired in a decades-long conflict with neighboring Armenia and lacked full control of its territory. For years, the breakaway region of …

What Washington Needs From Nuclear Negotiations With Tehran Of all the consensus-bucking foreign policy moves that U.S. President Donald Trump has undertaken, few have been more surprising than the resurrection of nuclear talks with Iran. Trump, after all, pulled the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the …

Les États-Unis et l’Europe donnent le feu vert à Netanyahou pour le nettoyage ethnique. Ce fut une nouvelle semaine passionnante dans un monde en guerre où le mot «diplomatie» n’a plus aucun sens et serait probablement défini par la responsable américaine de la sécurité intérieure, Kristi Noem, comme une doctrine …

Le président américain Donald Trump a annoncé que son administration avait choisi l’architecture du système de défense antimissile «Dôme d’or» proposé, affirmant qu’il coûterait 175 milliards de dollars et serait opérationnel en «moins de trois ans» avec un «taux de réussite proche de 100%». Lors de l’annonce faite par le …

Although no effort is spared to have the sanctions on Iran lifted, the Foreign Ministry will not sacrifice the rights of Iranians, including the right to enrichment, for an immediate agreement on the nuclear program, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said. Speaking to ICANA on Sunday, Araqchi described the negotiations on …