The Russian Federation Council ratified last September’s military pact with Nicaragua in late April. According to TASS, “it provides for the following areas of cooperation: joint training of troops, exchange of experience and information in countering the ideology of...
Reuters reported earlier in the month that the US plans to lift its Biden-era sanctions on Eritrea that were imposed over its contentious role in Ethiopia’s Northern Conflict that raged from 2020-2022. Speculation has swirled about what the quid...
The Nepali Foreign Ministry of new Prime Minister Balendra Shah, the former mayor of Kathmandu with a history of ultra-nationalist signaling, complained to India and China about their plans to resume an annual pilgrimage that passes through Indian-controlled territory...
Russia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement in mid-April for resolving their dispute over December 2024’s Azerbaijan Airlines incident where Russian forces accidentally damaged one of its planes flying over Chechnya while responding to a Ukrainian drone attack. Putin apologized...
Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop confirmed late last week that the opening phase of the ongoing insurgency by terrorist-designated “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) Tuareg separatists and “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) radical Islamists was a failed decapitation strike. The...
Next month’s parliamentary elections in Armenia are shaping up to be a “Battle for Armenia” due to the geopolitical stakes at play. If pro-Western Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party wins, then last August’s “Trump Route for International Peace and...
Former Russian President and incumbent Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev published an incredibly detailed article ahead of Victory Day about Germany’s remilitarization. It’s much too lengthy to review point by point so the present piece will...
Bloomberg reported that the Nigerian Defense Minister suggested in a recent interview that “The international community, through the United Nations, ‘must come together to fight this devil’”, adding that “If they allow them to get any foothold in Mali,...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sparked a scandal in EU-Turkish ties after telling the media in late April that “We must succeed in completing the European continent so that it is not influenced by Russia, Türkiye, or...
The Russian Defense Ministry warned local civilians and the staff of diplomatic missions in Kiev of their country’s plans to launch a massive retaliatory strike on the city center if Ukraine goes through with Zelensky’s threat to attack Moscow’s...
