Russia is ready to sell China its state-of-the-art S-400 missile system. Japan is worried by the prospect, fearing it could undermine its security amid an ongoing territorial dispute surrounding the Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China. Russia’s business daily Vedomosti reported last November that Moscow …

The US is losing its status of world power, as the country has lately not been able to enforce its geopolitical interests in several regions and has had to retreat, according to German Media.  The descent of the United States as a world power started in Syria, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten reported. …

The rapid rise of the AIIB was foreseeable: the world’s emerging economies got really frustrated when the US-dominated Bretton Woods institutions disregarded them as a “group of banana republics,” F. William Engdahl noted. Washington’s policy makers have been ignoring the needs of the world’s emerging economies for too long, treating …

The initiative to set up the AIIB was announced in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. In October 2014, 22 Asian states signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish the AIIB with the headquarters in the Chinese capital of Beijing. According to the AIIB …

In a cabinet reshuffle Wednesday, Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud replaced the country’s Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal who has held the post since 1975, local media reported. The veteran foreign minister has been replaced with diplomat Adel al-Jubeir, who has served as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United …

The US Air Force base in Ramstein is a central and indispensible element in Barack Obama’s controversial use of drones in the war against terror. New documents are creating pressure for both Washington and the German government. Knowledge is power. Ignorance often means impotence. But sometimes ignorance can …

By Susanne Koelbl in Baghdad In a SPIEGEL interview, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi discusses his disappointment over delayed American support in Baghdad’s battle against the Islamic State and why it remains so difficult to prevail over the terrorist organization. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, 62, sits on …

BY MICHELLE WITTE President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was announced the winner of the country’s presidential election early morning on April 27, expressed his “grand satisfaction” at the country’s record-breaking voter turnout and said it was important to him to get a fresh mandate from the people …

When the P5+1 and Iran announced their framework agreement earlier this month, some analysts reiterated that a final deal would result in a proliferation cascade in the Middle East. This widely held and long-standing assumption remains largely unchallenged. But a careful look at the actual technical capability, political …