Our readers' questions about the war, answered. Vol. 7
Ukraine's manpower problem is well-known, and with the increased strain of mobilization on society over 2024, it is getting ...
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Ghassan Salame to Asharq Al-Awsat: World in Store for Broader Wars, More Nuclear Countries
The world is facing growing uncertainty as the first quarter of the 21st century draws to a close. The changes are rapid and ...
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Is Russia’s Mutual Defense Pact With North Korea Truly Mutual?
Against the backdrop of nearly 11 years of total war in Ukraine, Russia and North Korea are increasing military cooperation ...
A Newly Declassified Memo Sheds Light on America’s Post-Cold War Mistakes
The newly discovered memo, written in March 1994 by Wayne Merry, chief of the U.S. Embassy’s internal politics division at ...
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Asma Al-Assad In Exile? Searching For The Real Story Of Syria's Former First Lady
Despite her pleasant air and sense of fashion, the now former Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad was bound to be tied to her husband's fate. Born and raised in the UK, she was respected by some for ...
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Post-Assad Syria: What It Means for China
Examining the political, economic, and security impacts of Beijing losing a key ‘strategic partner’ in the Middle East. | Read this and other China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Syrian Civil War hea ...
Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962
During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’ ...
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Ukraine reports record daily losses for Russian forces
Russian forces have suffered record daily losses, with approximately 2,200 casualties in a single day, bringing the total to ...
A new book explains why India is likely to remain friends with Russia despite America’s disapproval
Thus in 1971, it was the Soviet Union that saved India from a UN Security Council censure, and it was Soviet weapons that ...
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International Law and Diplomacy at Their Highest Scale of Absurdity
Assad's regime was overthrown continues to astonish political analysts and strategists. Last weekend, a report that went ...
Vijay Diwas: Convergence of Indian diplomacy - military might that changed the Subcontinent
December 16, 1971, remains a key date in India's contemporary history, and a day that changed the Indian subcontinent forever ...