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Marc ChampionThe Japan Times |
There’s been a lot of debate about what the future holds for Europe and its neighborhood if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine succeeds. We already know...
Over 200 days into Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to decide what matters more: extracting ultimate...
It’s time to call ourselves out over Ukraine. Because if the approach of the West, and the U.S. in particular, doesn’t change very soon, the...
Napoleon Bonaparte is supposed to have told his generals never to interrupt an enemy who was making a mistake. It is as good advice today as it was...
John Bolton has called for Israel to respond to Iran’s massive, failed weekend missile barrage by destroying its nuclear fuel facilities. In one...
This past weekend’s election results in Turkey were astonishing, celebrated by hundreds of thousands of Turks as a victory for secularism and by...
It’s been more than 20 years since al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden boasted of his success in bringing down New York’s twin towers — and there are...
Three facts stand out as clear after Russia’s arrest of the alleged perpetrators of Friday’s appalling terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City...
As a democratic exercise, Vladimir Putin’s 87% victory at the polls this weekend was a travesty, meaningful only as a defining chapter in the tragic...
The Houthis of Yemen think they’re at war with the West. With the news that three undersea fiber-optic cables were severed off the Yemeni coast and...
Some things seem so obvious that it’s bewildering when they don’t just happen — and getting enough food and medicine into Gaza to keep children...
Addressing his nation on Thursday, a buoyant Russian President Vladimir Putin ridiculed the very notion that he might attack Europe. Not only was that...
Visiting Ethiopia, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared Israel’s devastating war in Gaza as a genocide conducted by soldiers on...
Alexei Navalny, who the Russian prison service says died on Friday, was a man as ambitious as he was spectacularly brave — punished for actions that...
Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Vladimir Putin was in some ways as cringeworthy as many feared it would be. Carlson lobbed questions to...
The U.S. has hit 85 targets in Iraq and Syria with more to come in response to last weekend’s killing of three U.S. reservists by Iran-backed...
As recently as October, U.S. President Joe Biden dismissed a question over whether the U.S. could cope with supporting allies fighting two...
Gubad Ibadoghlu, a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, was due to spend this year’s holidays with his wife, daughter and two...
It is a great irony of the war in Gaza that the two governments most responsible for navigating the response to Hamas — Israel’s, for military...
It’s something close to a law of nature that the farther people are from a conflict, the more simplistic their views about its causes and solutions....
With hindsight, the last time Vladimir Putin visited Xi Jinping in China, just three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, was a moment of hubris —...
Truth, infamously, is the first casualty of war and that’s never more important to remember than after a major tragedy such as the reported strike...
It has been as unsurprising as it is grotesque to see Iran’s leaders applaud Hamas’ "victory” even as evidence of atrocities against Israeli...
It was hard to imagine any of Russia’s neighbors deciding this was a good time to start a war, given the bloody spectacle of Vladimir Putin’s...
According to excerpts from a new biography, Elon Musk last year curtailed his Starlink satellite service to prevent Ukraine using it for a sea-drone...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is under pressure to fight corruption, this time in the defense sector, and he’s responded with a...