After having ostensibly defeated the Palestinians, Israel feels ready to deal with the more distant threat of Iran By Ofri Ilany What’s the reason for Israel’s current confrontation with Iran? In the past few weeks, the surging...

Myanmar’s army chief denied his forces committed rape and other sexual abuses during a crackdown he ordered on Rohingya Muslims, as he addressed UN Security Council delegates in the capital Naypyidaw. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing...

The terrible defeat suffered by forces of the Wagner Group private military company (PMC) at Deir el-Zour (Syria), in early February 2018 did not lead to the demise of this increasingly famous Russian PMC. On the...

Nicaragua’s army on Saturday called for an end to violence in the country and distanced itself from President Daniel Ortega, saying it was not repressing anyone for taking part in anti-government protests. Unrest against the president...

Almost as extraordinary as the shock election result in Malaysia is the unlikely rapprochement between Mahathir Mohamed and his former political nemesis, Anwar Ibrahim. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mathathir, 92, stunned the political world by defeating Najib...

Recent projections indicate that several Sub-Saharan African countries will experience robust economic growth over the next five years. By 2023, around one-third of the region’s economies will have grown at an average annual rate of 5...

By Hanaa Hasan | (Middle East Monitor) The sight of yet another chemical attack on civilians in Douma on Saturday 7 April caused the kind of international outrage that the world now expects and has come...

Home to only a tiny number of Jews, Indonesia is a hotbed of anti-Semitism. The disturbing popularity of Nazi imagery in the country came to international attention with stories of a Third Reich-themed restaurant and a...

Russia and China, whose leaders remain allied with the dictatorship in Venezuela, have decided not to take over the Venezuelan refineries of Paraguaná. They were offered the refineries by the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The decision...

On Sunday April 1st, one thing was sure: A man with the name of Alvarado would be elected the next president of Costa Rica by the end of the day. Carlos Alvarado Quesada and Fabricio Alvarado...