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Riyadh seeks to leverage ongoing anti-government protests to extract geopolitical concessions from Tehran—not effect regime change.
It’s time for Beijing to reexamine its long-standing sense of purpose.
Moscow’s scramble for valuable resources has come at the cost of regional security.
Erdogan has focused on Stockholm’s stance toward Kurdish exile groups, but Ankara’s real demand is the end of U.S. support for Kurds in Syria.
It can be boiled down to a single historical factor: corruption.
Sending American tanks now helps guarantee a safer world tomorrow.
Ideas like “people’s war” infuse official thinking in China.
Why the latest controversy over depictions of Mohammed was completely unnecessary.
Competing ideas about the end state of the war are striving for dominance.
In confronting China, Japan is thinking beyond its military. The United States should follow suit.
A rare confluence of crises has created the possibility of Beijing changing course.
With alternative sources in place, Putin’s attempt at blackmailing Europe on energy has failed.
The European Union is plagued by a corruption scandal—but not quite in the way many suggest.
Washington’s long-held policy has outlived its usefulness.
Ethiopia can only recover morally and economically by welcoming refugees back.
Turkey isn’t East or West. It’s Turkey.
North Korean nuclearization makes a once-taboo option thinkable.
Imperial powers didn’t just steal art and artifacts. They stole Africa’s future.
Many say the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement will threaten the regime this year. They’re wrong.
A backup supply of electrical grid equipment is needed to defend against grid attacks at home and make Ukraine more resilient in the face of Russian strikes.
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Riyadh seeks to leverage ongoing anti-government protests to extract geopolitical concessions from Tehran—not effect regime change.
Fed up with the economy and a political crackdown, young Turks are increasingly looking abroad to find their futures.
It’s time for Beijing to reexamine its long-standing sense of purpose.
Moscow’s scramble for valuable resources has come at the cost of regional security.
