EU sanctions. Well over a month after agreeing to impose sanctions on Belarusians “responsible for violence, repression and the falsification of election results,” EU leaders finally got everyone on board. Measures targeting 40 individuals – but not President Alexander Lukashenko – could come as soon as Friday. This comes after Canada and the United Kingdom […]
Nationalism is a powerful force in Iran's political consciousness. But in recent centuries, military defeats, external occupations and foreign interference have tempered its citizens’...
Stop fighting. That was the message to Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday from the presidents of France, Russia and the United States. Specifically, the...
“Negotiating” on the battlefield. The latest update from the fighting over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh is that the fighting is ongoing and little...
Turkey’s economy is in dire straits. In September, the Turkish lira fell to a 20-year low as investors withdrew billions from Turkey’s currency bond...
Scorekeeping in Nagorno-Karabakh. On Monday, day two of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, losses continued to mount. Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave at the center...
Fighting has broken out again over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave inside Azerbaijan nominally controlled by Azerbaijan but governed by ethnic Armenians. Since the fall of...
Renewed fighting. Clashes erupted in the restive Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday, as both countries declared martial law and accused each...
On Sept. 23, Alexander Lukashenko officially took office as president of Belarus again. It wasn’t your typical inauguration ceremony, the date of which was...
The Geopolitics of the American President