It started with a voice. In early July, foreign ministers, a U.S. Member of Congress, and a sitting U.S. governor received urgent messages that seemed to come directly from Secretary of State Marco ...

EXPERT BRIEFING — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced this week that 32 people have been detained since the start of ...

Mykola Volkivskyi is the President of the Geneva Center for Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, a political analyst, and a ...

Russia was once a proud supplier of weapons to a growing China. However, over the past few years that paradigm has shifted and that relationship has changed.In 2017, SIPRI reported that by 2015 Russia ...

Former CIA senior officer Mark Kelton warns of an "existential challenge" facing the CIA - a crisis of public trust in a hyper-partisan America. But as democracy itself is under threat, where should ...

China’s reaction to the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear capabilities confirms Beijing’s view of Iran as an expendable appendage of its common interest network. This can best be understood through the ...

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Iran and Israel have been at odds since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when the new Islamic Republic declared Israel to be illegitimate and pursued a confrontational strategy. Tensions have increased ...

At the direction of President Donald Trump, U.S. armed forces conducted an attack against Iran, Operation Midnight Hammer. The President’s decision to launch the attack was made without seeking or ...

OPINION — "I think the real technical challenge [for the Golden Dome space-based missile defense system] will be building of the space-based interceptor. That technology exists, I believe. I believe ...

Sami Omari is an Afghan-born international relations, diplomatic and policy consultant with extensive experience alongside ...