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The highlight of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s first official visit to Russia on March 27-28, 2017 was a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. At a joint press conference, Putin stressed ...

President Donald Trump, less than 100 days in office, caught the world off guard when he ordered the military to fire 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles in a targeted military strike ...

Washington launched 59 precision-guided missiles April 6 at loyalist-controlled Shayrat air base, southeast of Homs city, Syria. The base housed the two squadrons of Syria’s Su-22 ground attack aircraft that ...
This man is holding the Qat plant. Credit : FoodFusion

This article was written by Roni Cohen and published on FoodFusion and Geopolitics, a recent partner of Young Diplomat. This orginal article explains the geopolitical problems in Yemen , while giving ...

Last week, I chaired a session with Omar Ghobash on his new book, ‘Letters to a Young Muslim’. You can see his Daily Show interview with Trevor Noah here. It ...

In late December 2016, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman of the Iranian Guardian Council, declared that women would be allowed to run in the next presidential election, scheduled for May ...

On Jan. 12, Gazans protested over the electricity shortage and cast the blame on Hamas. The demonstrations were dispersed by force, but the movement’s leaders understood that their regime could be in ...

Deir ez-Zor is the largest city in Eastern Syria, and with the imminent fall of Raqqa and Mosul, it will probably become Islamic State’s next stronghold. The city had a ...

This article is a repost of Newseek article available here and written by Owen Matthews, Jack Moore and Damien Sharkov. On the morning of January 11, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar climbed ...

There has been a lot to do over President Trump’s new immigration order, and about the countries which were not banned from entering the United States. I think there are ...