The main problem lies not in Syria but in the West, which allows its own jackals to rise to the top.
Could Israel be so reckless to scupper such a momentous deal as its own normalisation with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco?
For a Leviathan to function, it must remain rational and powerful, Alastair Crooke writes.
Macron has crossed his Rubicon and now cannot withdraw; he must see this through to the end.
The SCO and BRICS have a value that lies not in institutional effectiveness, but in the formation of a new symbolic center: an “order without the West.”
The most crucial part of the agreement — preventing either country’s territory from being used against the other — forms the core of the pact, a seed from which a full-fledged military alliance could easily emerge.
Recent rumor about a Russian plane in Israel aimed to undermine Moscow’s legitimacy in the eyes of the Global South — particularly the Islamic world.
Starvation is being used to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip in line with the Greater Israel project, Gavin O’Reilly writes.