A leading international watchdog has sounded the alarm over what it describes as a sweeping campaign of arbitrary arrests and violent repression in Iran, accusing authorities of entrenching a system ...

The recent signals from Washington indicating a willingness to re-engage with the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) mark a pivotal moment in the evolving geopolitics of the Sahel. After years of reduced ...

India’s reported push to upgrade its fleet of Sukhoi Su-30MKI aircraft-while advancing talks with Moscow over the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57-marks more than a routine modernization decision. It ...

Western European governments are unlikely to deploy troops to Ukraine without Russia’s approval, according to a report by The ...

France is witnessing a significant shift in its cocaine market dynamics, as record-breaking seizures, evolving trafficking ...

When a nation seals its border, it is rarely just a security decision. It is a declaration of vulnerability, a signal of exhaustion, and sometimes a warning to the world. Chad’s decision to close its ...

There is an old joke in political circles — one that is darkly funny precisely because it is so reliably true — that power is never really lost. It merely changes addresses. In Bangladesh, that joke ...

For years, Washington viewed the Houthis as a contained problem – a militant force entrenched in Yemen’s rugged mountains and along its Red Sea coastline, dangerous but geographically limited. That ...

The killing of notorious cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, widely known as El Mencho, marks a watershed moment in the long-running war against organized crime in Mexico. For observers in ...

A coordinated law enforcement operation supported by Eurojust has dismantled a fraudulent cryptocurrency call center in Ukraine, underscoring both the scale of cross-border financial crime in Europe ...

Hungary has moved to block the European Union’s proposed 20th sanctions package against Russia, tying its approval to the restoration of oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia.

An investigation by the independent outlet Buro Media has shed new light on the industrial supply chains underpinning Russia’s ongoing aerial campaign in Ukraine. Drawing on customs records and trade ...