Affront to Moscow. Armenia’s parliament voted to ratify the International Criminal Court’s founding statute, a move that will be seen as an affront to Armenia’s traditional ally Russia. As the newest member of the ICC, Armenia will be bound to comply with an international arrest warrant issued by the court for Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
Strange things are happening in China. Defense Minister Li Shangfu has disappeared from public view, only to be brought under investigation by Chinese authorities....
Closer ties. Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a deal on a roadmap to build energy trading infrastructure between the two countries. Earlier this week, during...
Beginning of the end. The president of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Samvel Shahramanyan, signed a decree dissolving all state institutions beginning Jan. 1, 2024....
Though his military forces are still in the process of absorbing Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met on Sept. 25 with his Turkish counterpart,...
African defense tour. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Angolan President Joao Lourenco in Luanda to discuss ways to reinforce bilateral military...
International exercises in Russia. Russia, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and certain ASEAN dialogue partners conducted military exercises in Russia’s Eastern Military District....
Russia's focus currently is on its western front, in Ukraine and neighboring countries. There is, however, another front that concerns Russia: its southern border,...
