Modi’s Russia visit has drawn criticism from the US and Ukraine, but analysts say the bad optics might soon be forgotten. When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets any male world leader, a bear hug is almost inevitable. Yet his embrace last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow …

ISIS carried out at least 29 confirmed attacks in June in the Homs, Hama, Raqqa, Deir Ez Zor, and Aleppo governorates. These attacks killed at least 49 pro-Assad regime soldiers and two civilians and wounded at least 23 more soldiers and civilians. There were also 12 high quality* attacks carried …

America Must Rediscover the Ideological Flexibility That Helped It Win the Cold War “It is clear, absolutely clear,” said Joe Biden, speaking about today’s key geopolitical contest at his first press conference as president, “that this is a battle between the utility of democracies in the twenty-first century and autocracies.” …

Helping It Recover Is the Only Way to Save the Two-State Solution Since April, nine countries—Armenia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Ireland, Jamaica, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago—have formally recognized the state of Palestine. Belgium, Luxembourg, and Malta have hinted that they may soon follow suit. So has the United …

Israel kept up its air strikes on Gaza Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ramp up the pressure on Hamas as hopes faded for a US-announced ceasefire plan. Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh accused Israel of deliberately undermining negotiations for a truce and hostage release deal because it …

A London reporter writes in WSJ that the assassination attempt on Trump, coming after Biden’s “stumbles” during the recent presidential debate, has pushed the superpower to enter “an unusually turbulent and unpredictable period, prompting allies to question its reliability and foes to gloat.” As a foe of US imperialist foreign …

Demonstrating its cruel and evil nature sadistic form of torturing Palestinians has been underway in Israeli prisons ever since the artificial state of Israel was established in Palestinian lands for Jewish migrants in 1948. However this cruelty intensified ever since Hamas attacked Southern Israel on 7 October 2023. Innocent Palestinians …

My previous article was about the potential impacts of the outcomes of the European Parliament elections, held in early June, on energy and climate policies on this continent. The results were seen as a new victory for the far-right, which has long been on the rise in Europe. Although centre-right …

The death toll from a shooting near a Shiite mosque in Oman’s capital has climbed to nine, police said Tuesday, adding that the three attackers were also killed. Earlier, Omani police issued a statement that said Monday’s shooting had resulted in the death of at least six individuals. It had …

About a year ago, Germany’s first-ever National Security Strategy (NSS) was published after 18 months in the making. The lengthy paper is not really a strategy. Rather, it is a collection of all the things Berlin would like to do in an ideal world, describing Germany’s self-image as well as …