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 ...

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

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

The end of the Cold War and the dismantling of what had been a bipolar world order raised the question of what exactly constitutes a superpower. The question has been bandied about even more over the ...

Iran and Hamas. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with senior Hamas officials in Istanbul over the weekend. The meeting was attended by the head of Hamas’ consultative council, its deputy ...

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

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

It’ll be difficult to reindustrialize and enhance military capabilities, given the rising costs of tackling the economic downturn through state subsidies and incentives. We are a global leader in ...

Floods rocked Central and Eastern Europe last week, inundating Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and Romania with the worst water levels they’ve seen in two decades. Though ...

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

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: ...

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