In the crosshairs again. The Israel Defense Forces resumed airstrikes on Beirut after a six-day hiatus. The IDF said it ...

Widening rift. Canada expelled six Indian diplomats, including India’s high commissioner to Ottawa, after identifying them as ...

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted in Moscow the leaders of the other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States. According to ...

The rise of Hezbollah began in the early 1980s. Following the success of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah ...

Copper is crucial to the global economy, and its importance is only going up. Historically, copper has been vital in ...

Readers have no doubt noticed that much of my writing over the past two-and-a-half years has focused on Russia. Some of the reasons for this are obvious: ...

The conflict between Iran and Israel has set the Middle East down a path toward a slow but significant strategic shift.

The Israeli Security Cabinet convened on Oct. 10 to decide how it will retaliate against Iran’s recent missile barrage. There ...

Surrounded. China’s military conducted one-day joint force exercises known as Joint Sword-2024B to the north, south and east of Taiwan. Officially, the ...

Kazakh doubts. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said construction and operation of a future nuclear power plant in the ...

North Korean mission. North Korea will likely deploy troops to Ukraine to support Russia’s war effort there, South Korea’s ...

I wrote an article on the two wars raging in Eurasia. It was “idiosyncratic” in that, unlike other columns circling the mediasphere, it focused ...