With the caucuses in Iowa and the primaries in New Hampshire for the Democratic Party now having been held, voters have started to show who they support in the 2020 presidential race. The first results were actually important to understand...
Bashar al Assad has been President of Syria since 17 July 2000 after inheriting power from his father Hafez al Assad. Bashar was born in Damascus in 1955 to a family originally from Latakia, the stronghold of the Shia Alawite...
The annual three-day-long Munich Security Conference kicked off Friday as world leaders and diplomats convened in Germany. In a stark departure from the typical tone of the event, trans-Atlantic differences between the US and Europe were at the forefront of...
“Happy birthday Africa!” Exactly 60 years have passed since 1960, also known in the news as the Year of Africa. During those 12 months, 17 African countries achieved full independence. Even though it was celebrated with excessive lyricism and, on...
Publicly he seems to be a man with a mild temperament, with an image certainly different to those who preceded him over the years. However Hassan Rouhani, the elected president of Iran, despite being a less conservative politician than others...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has reinforced the UN’s role as “guardians” of international law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Speaking last week at a press conference on UN work priorities in 2020, Guterres said: “We are totally committed to the...
For the first time in the nine-year old conflict in Syria, a direct military clash between the Turkish and Syrian armies seems closer than ever. Two Syrian military helicopters were shot down by shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles supplied to terror groups...
Many observers were astonished when the transitional government in Sudan declared that it would hand over ousted president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) where he will be tried for committing crimes against humanity in the western Sudanese...
It wasn’t quite a Saint Valentine’s Day massacre, but Boris Johnson’s Cabinet reshuffle proved a brutal affair. The axe fell on Britain’s second most powerful politician, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid, forced out after refusing to sack his senior...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan to have a successor who would carry on with her legacy has been thrown into a spin following the resignation of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Kramp-Karrenbauer was Supposed To Be Next Up As Germany’s Leader—Now What? Kramp-Karrenbauer—also...