Eurasia

Despite Iranian intransigence, the U.S. blockade of the Islamic Republic’s ports, which began on April 13, is already generating real pain — and real results — for the Islamic Republic. Iran exported a total of 29.45 million barrels of oil in April, down from a reported 35.7 million the previous …

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced hope of progress on ending the war with Iran, as he looked to Pakistani mediators to help advance efforts to strike an agreement. Previous comments by President Donald Trump had suggested weeks of stop-start negotiations to strike a permanent end to the war …

Sazan Island served as a naval base under Albania’s communist regime and remains under the control of the Ministry of Defence. To pave the way to granting it strategic investor status, Albania’s President Bajram Begaj earlier signed an urgent decree removing a military training zone from the Armed Forces deployment …

As Christian Schmidt readies to quit as High Representative, Europe and its allies must resolutely push for a powerful successor – and forget ‘compromising’ with a United States that has radically shifted position in the region. The succession of High Representative Christian Schmidt, who on May 10 announced his aim …

In North Macedonia, an enduring ethnic divide extends to conflicting interpretations of what actually happened during World War II. In villages above Tetovo and Gostivar, in the hills near North Macedonia’s northwestern border with Kosovo and Albania, scattered monuments reflect starkly differing interpretations of what went on in World War …

China’s “Century of Humiliation” began in 1839 with the First Opium War. The Qing Dynasty was in decline, and foreign powers began stealing territories and extorting trade concessions through wars and military expeditions. It was a long century that only really ended in 1949 with the establishment of the People’s …

As negotiations with the United States hang in the balance, a hard-line Iranian general linked to notorious attacks at home and abroad over the past decades is believed to have seized a place near the center of power. Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, who heads Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), …

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The break in the contract between the Pentagon and Anthropic has become one of the biggest scandals around the ethics of the use of AI technology. The more rapidly the artificial intelligence market is developing, the more acute the question of ethical limitations of digital algorithms is. Most states have …

Europe’s security environment has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have reshaped threat perceptions across the continent, while growing doubts about the reliability of US security guarantees have deepened this shift. Together, these developments …