The southern Africa states of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have agreed to shared visa scheme, but future ...

Syria has ramped up captagon production in the post-civil war period, with destabilizing consequences for the region and, ...

Leadership is expected to turn over in key Western states, bringing new policies that will reverberate throughout the global ...

An effective US presence remains key for regional stability in the Sahel, and this will be achieved not by doubling down on ...

The discovery of ephedra plants in Afghanistan and a booming end-user market in the Gulf States is fueling a growing drug ...

A response to US attempts to contain China’s military expansion, China’s Blue Dragon strategy envisions a widening PLA Navy footprint in three critical maritime arenas: the South China Sea, the East ...

The UAE is a threat to Western democracy and the rules-based international order, and it’s time for the United States to act ...

Tit-for-tat balloon launches by North and South reinforce the general and ongoing deterioration of inter-Korean relations ...

How does the West stand in the ‘Cold War 2’ contest with China for allies in the Global South? The straightforward answer is: poorly. Why? China decided to instrumentalize its overseas reserves in ...

Two years after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, political upheaval and gang violence has all but crippled the ...

In May 2024, an attempted coup was thwarted in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Among the coup leaders were three US ...