International reaction. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived on Monday in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave separated from the rest of Azerbaijan by Armenian territory. He held talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on bilateral and regional issues, about a week after Azerbaijan conducted a military operation in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh that led ethnic […]
Last week, all eyes were on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, where an escalation of forces threatens to disrupt the tenuous equilibrium among Russia, the...
Xi courts Arab leaders. China wants to help Syria reach a political settlement, rebuild, reconcile with its Arab neighbors and improve its counterterrorism capabilities,...
Over the past week, there have been conflicting reports on the status of Israeli-Saudi normalization talks. Last Sunday, London-based Elaph reported, citing an Israeli...
Big reversal. Ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh agreed to terms on a cease-fire proposed by Russian mediators a day after Azerbaijan launched an offensive...
France’s colonial empire in West and Central Africa dissolved in the 1950s and 1960s, but Paris’ dominance remained. Through the unofficial policy of “Francafrique,”...
Nagorno-Karabakh update. Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense announced that the country’s army launched “anti-terrorist measures” in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. A ministry statement accused...
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has disappeared. Some reports say he was meeting with Vietnamese officials when he was escorted away, but according to...
Drone disruption. Chinese restrictions on the export of drones and related components have led to shortages in Russia, Russian newspaper Kommersant says. On Sept....
Last week, the European Commission lowered its growth predictions in the eurozone for 2023 and 2024 – overwhelmingly because of poor economic indicators from...
