Condemnation. The leaders of Britain, France and Canada issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s expanded ground ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention in March to visit and conclude trade deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. He ...

Red lines. U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff drew a red line on Iran’s nuclear program, saying Washington would not permit ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced the end of U.S. airstrikes against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement. The decision ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), founded in 1978 by Abdullah Ocalan, spent decades waging an insurgency against the ...

New occupants. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have begun moving fighters to bases in the Al-Omar and Conoco oil and ...

In a bit of performance art at Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a big show of ...

China is shifting from an export- and investment-driven economy to one based on domestic consumption. The reason is ...

Tempered expectations. Russia and Ukraine are expected to hold their first direct talks since March 2022 in Istanbul on Thursday. Early Thursday, the ...

Tempered expectations. Russia and Ukraine are expected to hold their first direct talks since March 2022 in Istanbul on Thursday. Early Thursday, the Kremlin ...

Preparing for negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump said at a press conference that he might fly to Istanbul on May 15 for the potential Russia-Ukraine negotiations if he believes a significant ...