Political killings and coups d'état are not a new phenomenon in Africa. Way before the infamous term Scramble for Africa was coined between the 19th and 20th century, the continent was already going...
Energy-rich Kazakhstan is one of Russia's most important allies. The Central Asian nation, however, has closer ties with the West than any other country in the region. Is Russia’s influence in...
Russia is currently not considering recognizing the Taliban regime, but is actively working with the new Afghan rulers. The Kremlin is de facto negotiating with terrorists, given that in 2003 Moscow...
Iran's recent military exercises on its northern border with Azerbaijan (replete with tanks, artillery guns, and helicopters firing at targets) raised eyebrows in Baku. Shortly after the Iranian...
On the night of September 11, 2021, explosions were heard at Erbil International Airport in the eponymous capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan. It was the latest in a series of rocket and drone attacks...
Russian elites do not seem to be ready for a transformation of the country’s political system. Parliamentary elections, held from 17 to 19 September, clearly demonstrate that the Kremlin aims to...
One year after parliamentary elections resulted in the defeat of the Democratic Party of Socialist (DPS) that has been ruling Montenegro for three decades, the Southeastern European nation remains...
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of the powerful Islamist Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that controls large parts of Syria's northwestern Idlib province, has called for the establishment of...
Ukraine is struggling to internationalize the Crimean problem. For the West, that issue has been put on hold and energy ties with Russia seem to have priority, at least for the next 25 years....
Following the Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan this August, Iraqi Kurdistan has insisted that it will not allow a similar fate to befall its landlocked region. "There is a big difference...
