Moscow's edge over Kyiv has been its naval power, as Ukraine has virtually no navy. But over the past few weeks, a successful Ukrainian offensive has helped tip the scales in the conflict.
It can be argued that Russia's war on Ukraine started in 2008 when it invaded Georgie. Al Majalla explains why the South Caucasus is an important missing piece of the discussion.
The total volume of natural gas Turkey has discovered in the Black Sea now amounts to 710 billion cubic meters (bcm) after a new field was located and a previous find was revised higher, President…
Russia's weekend backtrack from a U.N.-brokered deal to export Black Sea grains is likely to hit shipments to import-dependent countries, deepening a global food crisis and sparking gains in prices.
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Seven more ships laden with agricultural produce left Ukrainian ports on Sunday, the country's infrastructure ministry said, bringing the total to 218 since a U.N.-brokered corridor through the Black…
This week, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin traveled to Europe to attend the NATO Defense Ministerial in Brussels. Ahead of the event Secretary Austin visited Georgia, Ukraine, and Romania…
The Black Sea continues to be embroiled in a tug-of-war amid intensifying great power competition. Russia has made some significant military moves in the region this year and seems to be working…
On June 14th NATO held its 31st summit in Brussels. On the surface, at least, it looks like the transatlantic community is back on the same page, to its pre-Trump posture of “unity, solidarity, and…
The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) was launched in 2015 as a massive infrastructure investment project involving 12 European countries from the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Sea regions. Austria, Bulgaria…
No sooner did Washington greenlight Ukraine's use of long-range missiles than Russia announced it had signed a law allowing a nuclear strike in response to such an attack
As we bear witness to the endless livestream of death and destruction on our phones, it is important to call Israel's war on Gaza what it truly is: a genocide
The cost of this war already dwarfs those from 2006, yet it shows no signs of ending. Israel can absorb some losses; Lebanon cannot. If its people turn on each other, it will get a lot worse.
Christian Zionists have long prided themselves on their undeviating support for Israel, but a closer look exposes an allegiance rooted in white supremacy, antisemitism, and Islamaphobia
With dreamy vocals evoking images of hills and homeland, the star and her husband together wove a new and more romantic version of Lebanon in the years before the civil war that feels very distant now