Over many decades, external efforts at institution-building in Somalia have failed to resuscitate a functional central government there. Somalia had endured many conflicts and tribal battles and had…

For almost a century, security turmoil, civil wars, terrorism, and cross-border conflicts have been some of the constant features of the Middle East region. However, in the past decade, the…

Talk of violations committed by the Houthi coup militias is not new. Each morning we read about new violation of the rights of Yemeni people amid an embarrassing world silence which proves that self…

Throughout most of modern history, beginning with Peter the Great's eastward expansion in the seventeenth century, Russia and China in the imperial periods of their history had controversial…

“Queen Elizabeth II was the rock on which modern Britain was built. Our country has grown and flourished under her reign,” said Liz Truss, UK Prime Minister in her tribute to the late monarch who…

In March 2022, the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) released its 80-page Yearbook 2021 which describes the current threat to Sweden. The detailed report available in Swedish has been reviewed by…

Libya is stuck in a grave political stalemate that threatens the eruption of a new civil war that neither Libya nor its neighbors in North Africa and the Mediterranean can afford as a result of its…

So, the results are in. Finally, courtesy of the ‘selectorate’ of Tory party members, we have a new prime minister. We have a head of state called Elizabeth and a new occupant of Number Ten…

Both the United States and the European Union announced through their spokespersons that they were "considering" a response to the so-called "final text" of an agreement to restore the 2015 Iran…

The political vacuum has become a fashion in Lebanon as it has lived through it many times, whether through a president or prime minister who has assumed the executive authority under the Taif…