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Turkey and Iraq. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday to hold talks with Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid on the fight

The BRICS meets. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Tuesday in Pretoria, South Africa, where he will attend the 15th BRICS summit. He will also

Russia sponsor. Ukraine has added China's Alibaba Group to the list of international sponsors of Russia’s war effort. Ukraine's National Agency on

Growing ties. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, his first visit to the kingdom since the restoration

Chinese presence. Kazakhstan's trade turnover with China increased by 20.5 percent in the first half of 2023, driven partly by an 87.3 percent rise in

Blame game. The value of the Russian currency dropped on Monday to more than 100 rubles to the dollar, its lowest rate since March 2022, just weeks after

Last month, Israeli spy chief David Barnea quietly met with Biden administration officials at the White House. The brief meeting reportedly centered on

A French scholar of Islamism named Olivier Roy wrote in 1994 that, as a form of governance, political Islam was doomed to fail. He argued that Islamists

Ukraine talks. Officials from more than 40 countries attended Ukraine peace talks over the weekend, hosted by Saudi Arabia and excluding Russia. A peace

Danger. The leaders of a military coup in Niger refused to meet a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States, which traveled to the