Born in humble circumstances in February 1954, Erdogan was active in Islamic circles for two decades after graduation before joining the pro-Islamist Welfare Party...
On Wednesday, Moscow accused Ukraine of attacking the Kremlin with drones in an attempt to kill President Putin, the most serious allegation that Russia...
The Kremlin’s relationship with Hemedti developed rapidly after his forces took control of gold mines in Sudan’s Darfur district in November 2017.
When two military...
Married with three children, 41-year-old Kara-Murza has for many years been a thorn in President Vladimir Putin’s side.
On Monday, Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza...
The latest escalation came after Israeli police twice raided the al-Aqsa mosque early this month as worshippers barricaded themselves into the mosque’s compound to...
14 May will mark Turkey’s centenary and its President will be fighting for the right to take the country into its second century.
Something extraordinary...
For a real reversal of Russia’s fortunes, Putin will be banking in the coming weeks on his forces, replenished by mobilised reservists and conscripts,...
The ‘no limits relationship’ does have limits. Beijing has not provided material support for Putin’s war effort, nor has it helped his government and...
Most observers discount any possibility of civil war, insisting that there have been stirrings of armed insurrection in nearly every decade of Israel’s existence.
London:...
Russia may not survive the coming decade due to the divisive stresses pulling the federation apart.
In 2007, two years before he died, Russia’s first...
A new generation of hard-liners is emerging, surpassing even Putin’s old guard in their aggression. Of these, the most prominent is Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Who will...
There are no signs that the Ukrainian people are weakening. Russia’s brutality has only served to increase the people’s determination to defeat the aggressor.
It...
When hundreds of returning coffins morph into thousands, the public mood will harden quickly against Putin and the population will become even angrier.
‘Putin’s bad...
The Brother of Italy’s coalition with the League and Forza Italia will share the characteristics of other European right-wing brethren: hostility to ‘elites’, authoritarian...
As a last resort, will Vladimir Putin go nuclear? Rose Gottemoeller, a former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, suggested he might.
Something extraordinary happened last...
Steady as her ubiquitous profile on stamps and coins, the Queen embodied the British stiff-upper lip.
London: Being in the presence of the monarch was...
The elaborate cover stories, high level of training and the length of their missions make illegals incredibly difficult to track down.
London: It’s as old...
The existence of such an anti-Putin group will worry the Kremlin.
Stalemate. Six months into President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, this is the...
Germany is uniquely vulnerable to Russian threats to reduce gas flows. The sheer volume of gas that Berlin imports, almost 52.5 billion cubic metres...
Putin’s focus on imaginary Nazis illustrates his bizarre and dangerous behaviour in his final years. Many political scientists have concluded that the ‘Putinist’ system...
The high level of prosperity in the former colony is now under threat by China’s crackdown, as international investors become wary of the future.
Hong...
The challenge currently facing Ukraine and its partners is the disconnect between the West’s powerful long-term sanctions and the shorter-term military advantages Russia still...
Something scary happened last week, something that could escalate quickly into a world war. A train from Moscow to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad...
