After returning from Germany, where he had spent five months receiving treatment for poisoning with a Soviet-era chemical weapon, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested by Russian authorities when his flight was diverted to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on January… Read More ›
With Erdogan’s reelection, Turkey faces a future as a purely autocratic state, persecuting political rivals and settling scores With more than 90 percent of the votes counted Sunday night, one could predict with a great deal of certainty that Recep… Read More ›
Из статьи «Российский журналист, который сообщил о секретных полувоенных убийствах» в Нью-Йорк Таймс Moscow — A Russian journalist who had reported recently on clandestine Russian paramilitary groups in Syria died on Sunday after falling from the balcony of his fifth-floor… Read More ›
A young, liberal elite has emerged in Kabul, including many women. It is taking a stand against the Taliban’s atrocities in the form of political and artistic initiatives and wants to put an end to Afghanistan’s culture of violence. By… Read More ›
From “As Venezuela Enters 3rd Month Of Protests, Anti-Maduro Ire Finds New Target,” in NPR By Colin Dwyer It has been more than 60 days since Venezuela’s Supreme Court moved to dissolve the country’s National Assembly. The move, intended to… Read More ›
WASHINGTON — The United States accused the Syrian government on Monday of using a crematory to hide mass murders at a prison where thousands are believed to have been summarily executed in the nation’s civil war. The assertion, based on… Read More ›
This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting. By Franklin Foer Read Franklin Foer’s follow-up story for new statements from the Trump campaign… Read More ›
Two years ago, a tribal conflict in Yemen widened into a full-scale war after intervention by Saudi Arabia. Today, two-thirds of the population is starving. The world can no longer look away… By Matthias von Hein The richest country in… Read More ›
The dominant assessment in NATO is clear: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan staged the coup against himself. By Kjetil Stormark / kjetil@aldrimer.no Senior NATO sources tell aldrimer.no that they believe Erdoğan staged the coup himself. However, they stress that there… Read More ›
By John Judis Joshua Landis is head of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and publishes the influential blog “Syria Comment.” He is, perhaps, the nation’s foremost expert on Syria. He has been consistently right… Read More ›
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