After Iran’s Parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing’s foreign-affairs spokesperson stressed—in what looked ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Russia has interests that similarly diverge from Iran’s, and it, too, has conspicuously refrained from coming to the Islamic Republic’s aid. But China following a similar approach toward Iran ...

Nevertheless, with Iran defanged, and the benefits of ties with Israel and the U.S. looking increasingly attractive to moderate Arab countries, peace and prosperity in the Middle East appears ...

It used to be said that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means. Now we can cut out the middleman. The US strikes ...

Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible ...

Approximately one-half of Americans alive today were born after the Cold War ended. Most of the rest, including baby boomers like me, were born after World War II. We have never lived in an age when ...

The nostalgics of an imaginary Arab golden age are stuck in a series of questions. Where is the Arab world heading? From ...

Donald Trump’s presidency has inadvertently catalysed the decline of the American Empire, revealing the fragility of global power structures and the complexities of international relations, writes ...

It was the two leaders’ first call since 2022, and the Russian president’s first with any major European leader since last ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It’s been a week since the United States pressed Israel and Iran into a truce, ending a ...