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Why many top US allies aren't participating in the Board of Peace?

Middle East TA | AP Insight - January 22, 2026.

President Donald Trump on Thursday inaugurated his Board of Peace to lead efforts at maintaining a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas, insisting that “everyone...

Khamenei is caught in a trap of his own making

Middle East Pegah Banihashemi - January 22, 2026.

Three weeks into Iran’s latest wave of protests, the country has now spent more than ten days cut off from the outside world. Not only has...

Greenland and the repositioning of France’s far-right

EU Ferry Biedermann - January 22, 2026.

France’s far-right Rassemblement National is leveraging Donald Trump’s Greenland threats as part of a wider effort to rebrand itself as mainstream Gaullists. But notwithstanding its newfound...

Strategic autonomy as a European imperative

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - January 21, 2026.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, from 19 to 23 January, has become the venue where key messages about the future of the global...

UK faces fresh Trump pressure as he targets its ‘stupid’ Chagos Islands deal

UK Harvey Morris - January 21, 2026.

President Donald Trump’s threat to punish allies who dare to resist his plan to annex Greenland has generated a rare consensus among Britain's squabbling political...

What does the military imbalance mean for relations between Saudi Arabia and the UAE?

Middle East Nawaf Obaid - January 20, 2026.

For years, Arab and Middle Eastern politics rested on the comfortable assumption that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were locked into a permanent...

Is Russia turning to Central Asia as a new target?

Russia Oleksandr Levchenko - January 20, 2026.

The Kremlin’s chief propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov, has publicly stated that Russia may expand the so-called “special military operation” to countries in Central Asia.  Speaking on his...

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