New initiative. NATO will launch a new mission to protect critical infrastructure around the Baltic Sea following the recent suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the area, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced at a meeting of Baltic allies in Helsinki on Tuesday. The alliance will increase its presence in the Baltic Sea, including through […]
Ankara's warning. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that his country could launch a joint military operation with the new administration in Syria if...
For all the attention paid to the world’s many terrestrial conflicts – in Ukraine, the Palestinian Territories, Syria, Myanmar and elsewhere – tensions on...
Blame game. Russia’s Gazprom ceased deliveries of natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Jan. 1, citing Kyiv’s refusal to extend transit agreements. Ukraine’s...
Breakthrough. A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party was permitted to meet with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned...
Fico in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in Moscow to discuss energy, bilateral relations and Ukraine. Fico...
Jubilant crowds in some of Syria’s biggest and most politically significant cities toppled statues of former President Hafez Assad over the past week, in...
Moving in. Following the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s regime, Israeli forces seized control of the demilitarized Golan Heights buffer zone separating southwestern Syria and...
The Geopolitics of the American President