Afghan expansion. China says it’s eyeing a major expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative into Afghanistan as the U.S. ducks out of the country. According to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, expanding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – a sprawling jumble of BRI infrastructure projects – into Afghanistan is a natural way to help stabilize […]
Unseating Bibi. Israeli opposition parties reached a deal on Wednesday to form a government and unseat current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The coalition consists...
Last week, Syrian President Bashar Assad won a seven-year presidential term for the fourth time since 2000. According to official figures, Assad won 95...
Background: China's biggest strategic challenge is preventing foreign powers from using the first island chain to box in Chinese forces or blockade vital Chinese...
Background: Several years removed from the migrant crisis, Europe is still working to integrate new immigrants. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, the migration episode raised...
Russia and the European Union held a conference last week, during which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a speech: “The situation remains...
Turkey's cautious approach. Turkey pushed its NATO allies to soften a joint statement released on Wednesday in response to Belarus’ forced landing of a...
Background: Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt remain locked in fruitless negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Sudan and Egypt are downstream countries that fear...
Update on Ethiopia's dam. Ethiopia began the second filling phase for a reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, according to a Sudanese official....
