Η γαλλογερμανική πρόταση για τη διεξαγωγή συνόδου κορυφής Ε.Ε.-Ρωσίας, θα μπορούσε να είναι ένα θετικό βήμα για την εκτόνωση της κρίσης στις ευρω-ρωσικές σχέσεις και τη βελτίωση αυτών. Η πρόταση των Μακρόν-Μέρκελ, την οποία υποστήριξε και ο Ιταλός πρωθυπουργός Μάριο Ντράγκι, ναυάγησε ωστόσο λόγω των αντιδράσεων των χωρών της Βαλτικής …

Les circonstances du décès de son président de père, Idriss Déby Itno, son ambition pour le pays, ses intentions personnelles, ses liens avec le reste de sa fratrie… Pour la première fois, le nouveau chef de l’État tchadien s’exprime. Quand on lui demande, histoire de tester ses éventuelles arrière-pensées, s’il …

The world facing desperate situations of climate change, planetary degradation and nuclear war preparation desperately needs protection from inhumane deceiving war promoting Western media, and from where shall it come if not from the bountiful and powerful two great designated adversaries of the Western powers, China, the world’s most populous …

A thoughtful, far-sighted proposal by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron calling for resumption of the European Union-Russia summit met sudden death at the EU’s summit in Brussels on June 25 Friday. A consensus was impossible to reach and the exchanges revealed a strong undercurrent of opposition …

“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel about the World War II bombing of the German city of Dresden appeared the year I graduated from West Point. While dimly …

As the crisis over Ethiopia’s controversial dam on the Nile River worsens, Egypt considers expediting the construction of the Stiegler’s Gorge dam on the Rufiji River in Tanzania. Egypt is working to build the Stiegler’s Gorge dam on the Rufiji River in Tanzania, at a time when the Grand Ethiopian …

The Turkish-backed opposition is trying to benefit from the experience of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in establishing a new security apparatus to pursue terrorist cells in the areas under its control in north Syria. A new security apparatus is coming together in the areas controlled by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army …

Incoming Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi is widely discussed as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s successor, but there may be rumblings of a power struggle in the conservative camp. Two days after the Iranian presidential election June 20, Vahid Haqqanian, a senior official in the supreme leader’s office, provided his analysis of …

CENTCOM is trying to deter militia attacks without starting a war. The United States launched airstrikes against targets in Iraq and Syria before dawn on Monday, in response to a series of drone attacks on facilities used by American personnel in Iraq, the Pentagon said. The three targeted sites — …

If the US rate of response is only two retaliatory rounds of strikes to dozens of attacks since January, the US is not deterring the pro-Iran groups. For the second time this year, the Biden administration has responded to threats to US forces in Iraq by carrying out airstrikes. The …