Military & Security

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to China on May 19-20 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping after US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing, the Kremlin announced Saturday. According to a Kremlin statement, Putin and Xi will discuss bilateral relations, ways …

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday called for stricter regulation of social media platforms, arguing they must not become spaces where fake videos and hate speech spread without consequences. “If the weekly newspaper Die Zeit were to publish a false claim, one could immediately demand a correction from …

The European Central Bank may be forced to raise interest rates if higher crude oil prices begin to feed into inflation expectations, Governing Council member Martins Kazaks said Thursday. “Oil prices are higher, we see that it’s gradually starting to push inflation up, and if inflation expectations start …

China moved on Friday to publicly reaffirm its longstanding position on Iran after speculation and conflicting reports circulated regarding Beijing’s stance during recent regional tensions, with the Chinese Foreign Ministry publishing a full statement outlining its official position. Asian diplomatic sources told Al Mayadeen that Washington is expected …

Dr, Shehab Al-Makahleh When a U.S. president walks into Beijing and leaves without mentioning Taiwan, the silence speaks louder than any communiqué. The reported visit of Donald Trump to China—culminating in a closed-door meeting with Xi Jinping—is not just another episode in great-power diplomacy. It is a signal that the architecture …

Harjeet Johal Like a petulant phantom, the theme of Europe has haunted British general elections for decades. Remember 1992 and the “No, No, No!” chant and other Maastricht machinations of the then-departed prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, echoing around John Major’s campaign? Those chants ended up in the heavy …

The core reason is straightforward: the ruling coalition wants to control the timing and narrative of its own collapse, rather than allow the opposition to claim it brought the government down. What is unfolding inside Israel is not simply a parliamentary procedure. It is a calculated political maneuver …

Amid a dense cluster of contentious files—foremost among them Iran—Donald Trump arrived in China on Wednesday ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, in a visit shaped by escalating trade tensions and intensifying geopolitical crises, including the war involving Iran and the fallout from disruptions in the Strait …

The overwhelming military, intelligence, and technological superiority possessed by the United States and Israel in their war against Iran has led many cheerleaders for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu to assume that crushing Iran is merely a matter of operational sequencing. Yet such assumptions ignore a range of …