Heavy fighting is reported in northern Syria on the second day of a Turkish offensive into Kurdish-held areas. Turkey says it has seized a number of designated targets and killed dozens of Kurdish militants. Tens of thousands of people are reported to ...
The latest edition of Crisis Group’s monthly conflict tracker highlights dangers of escalating conflict in Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Tunisia. But there are resolution opportunities in Sudan. In September, U.S. President Trump suspended talks with ...
Krasnaya Sloboda (Red Town) near Guba, Azerbaijan, is not the only place in the Caucasus, where Azerbaijanis and Jews could live together in peace. Before the ethnic cleansings, perpetrated by Armenian nationalists, they had been living in an Armenian village (Yeghegis), ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to undertake the modernization of the Armed Forces of the breakaway Georgian territory of Abkhazia and to equip its military with additional weapons. According to Russia’s ambassador to Abkhazia (which remains unrecognized ...
TurAz Eagle exercise marks the hard power pillar of the Turkish Azerbaijani bilateral ties *Can Kasapoglu is the director of the Security and Defense Studies Program at the Istanbul-based independent think-tank EDAM. ISTANBUL Turkey and Azerbaijan -have completed the planned TurAz Eagle (TurAz ...
Divas with Janbiyas The ten-drone attack on Aramco’s Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia on September 14 is a sign that the Houthis suffer from false confidence. The Houthi movement’s leadership interprets Congressional pressure on Saudi Arabia as a green light to act against ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly denied a report that his country was spying on the US. A Politico article cites three former senior US officials who say Israel was likely to be behind surveillance devices found near the White ...
A new crackdown on corruption in the Islamic Republic is roiling the country’s political elite and could have implications for the succession to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Attacks have mounted on Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, once touted as a possible successor to ...
On August 12, delegations led by the prime ministers of the five Caspian littoral states—Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan—came together at Turkmenistan’s coastal resort of Awaza to hold the first annual Caspian Economic Forum. The heads of government from ...
The main aspects of presentations of the Congress participants: Policy and open inter-state dialogue foreign real estate from 27 countries, residential and commercial real estate, gold and gold assets, Permanent and second citizenship, banks and lending in Germany and European funds, ...