Mali weighs its options amid US and Russian overtures

With its mineral wealth and jihadist dilemma, Mali is entertaining both the Americans and the Russians, to see what each can offer, and what they want in return

Sergey Eledinov and Konstantin Terentev

Biden Contends with Congress

Struggles now underway in the U.S. Congress will affect the Biden’s administration’s foreign policy for years to come. On one front, Democrats and Republicans are arrayed across familiar lines in a…

Joseph Braude

Lebanon's Iran-Sponsored Crisis Deepens

After the last meeting with the president to form a new cabinet, PM designate Saad Hariri called Aoun’s demands “unacceptable”. He insisted that it is not the job of the President to form cabinets…

Hanin Ghaddar

Biden Positions to Confront China

Last week, American and Chinese diplomats met for a long-anticipated bilateral summit in Anchorage, Alaska. While few observers were expecting a cordial affair, the degree of animosity freely…

Joseph Braude