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JAMES F. COLLINS The hostilities in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists present the most serious challenge to Euro-Atlantic security and stability since the end of the Cold War. This worst military conflict since the Yugoslav Wars of the mid-1990s has undermined core elements of the …

Germany’s state intelligence agency says competition for influence inside the Saudi Arabian royal family is destabilising the wider Middle East, according to domestic media reports. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), one of Germany’s premier daily newspapers, carries the warning from the BND intelligence agency. According to FAZ, the BND …

In what might come as a surprise, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a prominent geopolitical strategist and a former National security advisor, downplayed tensions between the United States and Russia, as well as between Moscow and Ankara after the Su-24 bomber was shot out of the Syrian skies by the Turkish …

Kogalymavia confirmed on Monday that a Russian airliner’s tail part had been damaged prior to the air crash in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. © REUTERS/ MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY Decompression, Structural Faults May Explain A321 Plane Crash On Saturday, Airbus A-321 operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia crashed in the Sinai Peninsula …

No other state has catapulted itself into the future quite as rapidly, nor relapsed back into its dark past as suddenly, as Turkey. First there was modernization, and now the beginnings of a civil war. The country is divided by mistrust and hate. This is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s …

The Russian and US leaders will focus on the Syrian conflict during their meeting on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.   Earlier Thursday, the Kremlin spokesman confirmed that Putin and Obama would meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday.”Of course, the main topic is …

Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi arrived in the city of Aden on Tuesday from the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he has been in exile for the past six months, a presidential source has revealed. Gulf Online news agency said that Hadi arrived at Aden International Airport accompanied …

In the Damascus suburban quarter of the Assad Quarter, Assad forces succeeded in mounting a successful counterattack to repel a operation by Jaish Al Islam of Zahran Aloush. Few days later, in September 16, the deputy of Aloush, was killed. This was coupled with a chain of assassinations …

The exiled Yemeni government, which is currently in Saudi Arabia, is ready to return to their homeland, to a special prepared region, Vice President of Yemen Khaled Bahah said Friday. In January, as heavy violence escalated in Yemen between Shiite Houthi opposition insurgents and the Yemeni army, the militants captured vast territories in the country, including its …