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British wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, left, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, center, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin sit in the grounds of the Livadia Palace, Yalta.

There is hope now for Ukraine in how Yalta helped end World War II

Today’s world needs many things. One of them may well be another Yalta conference. The resort city on the south coast of the Crimea is famous for helping end World War II. It hosted an…

Sami Moubayed 22 February 2023

Whose Dream is this Nightmare?

Not so long ago, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, made some very striking remarks on Italian television. According to the Guardian, he was asked ‘…how Russia could say it needed to …

Bryn Haworth 27 August 2022

Ukrainian service members patrol an area in the city of Sievierodonetsk, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine June 20, 2022. Picture taken June 20, 2022. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak

Russia Pounds Eastern Ukraine, Putin to Mark WWII Anniversary

Ukrainian and Russian forces were entrenched in eastern Ukrainian battlegrounds on Wednesday, a day of commemoration in both countries to mark the anniversary of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow during an Easter service in 2019. Yuri Kochetkov/EPA

Religious Putin vs. Nationalist Putin

This is not the first time that the American media is personalizing US foreign animosities and interventions, as the personality of Russian President Vladimir Putin has become the core of the…

Mohammad Ali Salih 01 April 2022

27th February 1939: King Farouk of Egypt (1920 - 1965), makes a close examination of a range-finder during exercises of the Egyptian army artillery. (Getty Images)

American Book: King Farouk Torn Between Churchill and Hitler

In 1942, during World War II, Germany’s Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces, in alliance with Italy’s Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, already in control of countries in North Africa, were heading eastwards,…

Mohammad Ali Salih - Washington 03 April 2021

1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler

In this engaging book, Straumann, a leading Swiss economic historian, examines a critical factor in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. In the last days of the Weimar Republic,…

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