Eurasia

Back in February 2025, when US Vice President JD Vance announced at the Munich Security Conference that US assistance would be scaled back and called on Europe to take greater responsibility for its own security, many European leaders reacted with consternation and outrage. The shock was short-lived, and Europe immediately …

In today’s summary: In the covered direction, attempts of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to advance towards Dobropolly In the southern Donetsk direction recorded the presence of the Ukrainian military in Novokhatsky near the river Mokrya Yali Ukrainian drones struck a series of strikes on the infrastructure …

Documents on the secret negotiations between Russia and China, which were at the disposal of The Insider (and verified by the publication), confirm that military cooperation between the countries has gone deeper than it was publicly known. Among other things, China has involved Russia in the program to combat the …

The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced that it had dismantled cells affiliated with the Islamic State group and arrested a leader in the organization in southern Syria. The ministry said specialized units at the Interior Ministry, in cooperation with the General Intelligence Service, arrested Firas al-Dagher, a leader in the …

France’s growing activity on NATO’s eastern flank represents a long-term shift in its foreign policy and reflects a particular emphasis on relations with Poland, even though the project being advanced by Paris faces a number of fundamental limitations, argues Aleksei Chikhachev, Associate Professor at the Department of European Studies, School …

It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that, in recent years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been regarded by many observers as, if not the “weak link” in that part of humanity striving for a fairer world order, then, at the very least, the member of …

Despite other pressing priorities and the imminent end of the coalition mission, Zaidi’s trip is a vital opportunity to make sure Baghdad has the targeted assistance it needs to keep IS from resurging at a time of great domestic and regional turbulence. On the eve of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s …

The US president says he is ‘lifting sanctions’ on Turkey, but the pathway to closer defence ties is not clear-cut President Donald Trump says he will lift sanctions on Turkey and overturn a ban on selling the US’s Nato ally F-35 warplanes, but experts say he has “no magic wand” …

La seule manière pour les États-Unis de rester aux commandes des affaires mondiales est une guerre mondiale, c’est-à-dire un conflit à grande échelle dans lequel les États-Unis endossent le rôle d’arbitre et non de participant direct. L’imagination des stratèges américains n’est pas très riche, c’est pourquoi on répète des schémas …

Le général Erich Vad veut doter l’Allemagne de l’arme nucléaire. Or ni le droit international, ni l’histoire, ni la géographie européenne — où la Russie demeure la grande puissance incontournable — ne permettent une telle fuite en avant. Je dois avouer que je n’en croyais pas mes oreilles lorsque j’ai …