Oil hit a six-month low on Wednesday after a brief rally as concerns about the prospect of a global recession that would weaken demand overshadowed a report showing lower U.S. crude and gasoline…
Hadja Lahbib, a television journalist of Algerian origin and former reporter on Afghanistan and the Middle East, was appointed in July as Belgium’s new Foreign Minister in a move that surprised the…
Diplomacy as a tool for managing international relations in times of peace and in the process of searching for solutions to a state of war has garnered several adjectives. Each one of these…
The recent Madrid NATO summit has been labelled as historical, “with far-reaching decisions to transform NATO”, which apparently will “preserve peace, prevent conflict, and protect our [western]…
Over two days at the end of June, the leaders of NATO member states met at a summit in Madrid amid a palpable sense that the alliance they were there to discuss had suddenly become a lot more…
G20 host Indonesia urged the group's foreign ministers on Friday to help end the war in Ukraine, as Russia's top diplomat accused the West of scuppering a chance to tackle global economic issues with…
One of the many ironies of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was its pretext - to rid the country of a Nazi administration, despite the head of that administration being Jewish. Another was Russia’s…
But is it time for the Ukrainian war to stop? All of the tools of deterrence have been used and countries have been exhausted from the economic sanctions to the massive armament of the Ukrainian army…
June 24 will mark four months since Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. The war rages on without an end in sight. Both sides have new objectives now, to which they are…
Recently, many editorials of leading American newspapers criticized President Joe Biden for his repeated claims that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the main cause for the staggering inflation…
Palestinian death is increasingly being seen through the lens of cold political calculations. The world's silence over Gaza's horrors has drowned out the desperate screams of its people.
Although Tehran should understand by now that its hand is weak, it remains to be seen whether it can give up its fantasy of empire. Talks in Oman will be telling.
In Türkiye for talks and a conference, Syria's new president knows that there is much to do and many to satisfy if he is to rebuild his country. Amidst the smiles, those with agendas jostle.
With numbers so staggering and stories so harrowing, we can't say we don't know what's happening. More needs to be done to address what has become 'the world's largest displacement crisis'.