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’ sense of historical and cultural pride. One of the more recent examples of foreign meddling is Operation Ajax, a U.S. plot to take down Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 after […]
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...
Belarus after the inauguration. Protests began on Wednesday in Minsk after the inauguration ceremony of President Alexander Lukashenko, which had not been publicly announced...
