Escalation in Ukraine. In a video address on Russian TV, President Vladimir Putin said his country on Thursday fired a new, intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. He ...

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Attack-‘ems. After months of deliberation, the U.S. reportedly has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied ballistic missiles with a range of 300 kilometers (186 miles) ...

Expanding cooperation. Russia and North Korea signed an agreement on boosting economic cooperation following a meeting between trade officials in Pyongyang on Wednesday. No further details about the ...

As I wrote in my most recent book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” we tend to use presidencies as benchmarks to help us locate where we are in time, but it would be a mistake to think that presidents and ...

Much of the public discussion about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s forthcoming strategy for the Middle East, especially in light of the nominees to his national security team, is binary. In this ...

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Baghdad’s concerns. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said a letter sent to the U.N. Security Council by Israel could be a “pretext for aggression against Iraq.” The statement was referring ...

– In George Friedman’s book “The Storm Before the Calm”, he outlines America’s socioeconomic and institutional cycles and explains how presidents fit into these cycles. The U.S. has elected Donald ...

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The modern history of Qatar began in the 18th century with the settlement of Arab tribes along the Persian Gulf coast. It soon became a battleground, as the Saudis ...

Protests erupted on Nov. 11 in the capital of Abkhazia, a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia. The demonstrations began in response to the detention of five members of the opposition who had ...