Geopolitics

By Shehab Al-Makahleh • In the immediate aftermath of the US strike on the Syrian Shayrat airbase Russian President Putin called the attack a violation of the international law, which was shortly followed by the Russian Defense Ministry announcing suspension of the memorandum on air safety in Syria reached with the …

Editorial Note — Early this morning Middle Eastern time, US President Donald Trump ordered a cruise missile strike on a Syrian Shayrat airbase outside of Homs, from which, according to the President’s statement the alleged chemical attack was launched. Due to the lack of evidence proving that the attack …

By Arina Tsukanova • Due to the international media’s continued claims about the «annexation of Crimea», it’s been difficult for the citizens of the US and Europe to make sense of the details of the peninsula’s recent history. Exactly three years ago, on March 16, 2014, the Crimeans were offered a …

According to the Press Release following the meeting of the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the two sides have agreed to boost Russo-Arab cooperation on key regional and global issues. On March 27, ahead of the Arab …

Ever since September 11, 2001, security concerns have played a central role in the United States’ migration policy – but never more aggressively so than now. Americans, anaesthetized by the War on Terror that just drones on, may have forgotten, but a tough and exhaustive vetting process has …

Editorial Note — It’s been 10 years since the former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic has died in the prison in the Hague, while his trial for alleged war crimes was still ongoing. The 1990s civil war in Yugoslavia has been for years the main topic on …

Only a few months ago, interventionists were demanding a militant response by Washington to what George Soros branded “a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions” — the killing of “hundreds of people” by Russian and Syrian government bombing of rebel-held neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo. Leon Wieseltier, a …

Exclusive: Ukraine on Fire, a new documentary about the Ukraine crisis, might change how people in the West perceive the conflict, but it’s unlikely to get much distribution since it contests the prevailing narrative, writes James DiEugenio. It is not very often that a documentary film can set …