When protests against decades of rule by the Assad family were crushed by Syrian government forces in the spring of 2011, opposition groups took up arms and the country descended into civil war. The ...

Europe and the US must capitalize on Iran’s vulnerabilities and time pressures to push for meaningful nuclear diplomacy ...

Suggestions of a possible ‘turning point’ in Sudan’s 18 month-long civil war are a drastic overstatement, albeit one exposing ...

Russia has increasingly encircled territory and then pummelled Ukrainian forces with artillery and glide bombs, according to Russian analysts, with the sheer numerical superiority of Moscow's ...

On June 18 this year, the US Senate passed the ADVANCE Act, to accelerate the adoption of next-generation nuclear reactors in the US. Darya Dolzikova, a research fellow at the Royal United Services ...

The signing of the Lebanon deal is unlikely to provide respite for Palestinians in Gaza, according to a regional analyst. A Hezbollah-Israel agreement “means nothing for Gaza,” HA Hellyer, a senior ...

Jordan’s delicate role as a stabilising Middle Eastern ‘buffer state’ faces mounting threats from regional instability, ...

If NATO, the Five Eyes intelligence community, the Five Power Defence Agreement, the Commonwealth and other alliances sit at the heart of any UK defence philosophy, why is so little attention paid to ...

Kyiv said it struck the radar of the S-400 surface-to-air battery, considered to be broadly equivalent to the U.S. military's Patriot air-defense system, overnight. Each system costs around $200 ...

After the turmoil of his first administration, Donald Trump’s new nominations for the top roles in US espionage will spark ...

Dr Ronan Mainprize is an Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication. His research focuses on intelligence and US foreign policy.

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