Cuban dissent. Large-scale protests broke out across Cuba Sunday against the country’s shortages of basic goods, medicine and food items. The government responded by cutting electricity and internet access and deploying its elite army group called the black berets. Fallout from Afghan instability. The Collective Security Treaty Organization, a military alliance between select post-Soviet states, […]
The security situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating since the United States and NATO began to withdraw their forces earlier this year. In early...
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This week, Russia’s foreign minister met with the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to discuss relations between Moscow and...
Secret meeting? Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett traveled to Jordan last week to meet with Jordanian King Abdullah II, according to a report from...
On Sept. 11, 2001, a special operations team created by al-Qaida attacked the United States, hijacking commercial airplanes to target psychologically significant structures. I...
Background: Belarus, an important buffer between Russia and NATO, has recently come under sanctions pressure from the West due to Minsk’s human rights violations as...
Iranian diplomacy. On Wednesday, Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi met with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who is now in Moscow for talks with his...
Iran presents itself to the outside world as the mighty Islamic Republic, built on strength, perseverance and independence. But in reality, Iran is a...
Ready to help. Russia is prepared to use its Tajik military base to defend Tajikistan from spillover violence originating in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister...
When Armenia and Azerbaijan started fighting late last year, it looked like another episode in their interminable conflict. But beneath the surface, three important...
Escalating violence. Tajikistan is deploying an additional 20,000 troops from its reserves to the Afghan border amid concerns over escalating violence in Afghanistan following...
