Russia and China will for the first time hold joint naval drills in the Mediterranean Sea next month, according to a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense. Chinese National Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said that Moscow and Beijing will for the first time hold joint naval …

By Finian Cunningham The claims that Merkel’s government knew about German state intelligence spying on behalf of the Americans against the country’s own industrial interests raise disturbing questions about the integrity of German government leaders. The apparent betrayal of German national interests by Chancellor Angela Merkel is not only evident over the …

Daily Signal interviewed Elin Suleymanov, the Azerbaijani ambassador to the U.S. Most of the world has a stake in a potential U.S.-led nuclear deal with Iran. But some places are uniquely positioned to evaluate it. Take Azerbaijan, a small country that borders Iran and Russia and is friends with …

Azer News “Armenia is trying to maintain the status quo by carrying out various armed provocations on the contact line”. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Herbert Salber. Herbert Salber said they are closely following the …

News.Az interviews Agata Loskot-Strachota, Energy Policy research fellow at Poland’s Centre for Eastern Studies. Development of gas supply routes, designed to solve the problem of Russia’s monopoly, is one of the main things that the EU is concerned. What projects do you consider the most viable? EU has …

By Aygun Badalova  Trend After the removal of the West’s sanctions from Iran, in particular the oil embargo, the country will become a full-fledged player in the market and will join the competition in supplying oil, Vladimir Sotnikov, the senior fellow at the International Security Center of the …

By Elchin Mehdiyev Azer News The trite phrase that “history repeats itself” has been nowadays acquiring the most bizarre forms. If once the US was a colony of Europe, now everything is repeating itself exactly in the opposite direction. And it impossible to give any other name to …

By Sara Rajabova AzerNews Kazakhstan will resume oil production in its largest oil and gas field – Kashagan, located in the north of the Caspian Sea. Vladimir Shkolnik, Kazakhstan’s energy minister said oil production at Kashagan field in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea is expected to …

The Pentagon said Wednesday that the U.S. would “be able to respond” if necessary to help a Marshall Islands-flagged ship that was diverted, and boarded, a day earlier by Iran — though it remains unclear how far the U.S. Navy might be willing to go if the tense …