Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Hudson Institute and a former aide to US Senator Ted Cruz, tells RFE/RL about what China is learning from the US strike and what it means for Beijing as it looks to compete with the United States around the globe.
Amid corruption scandals and relentless Russian attacks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is conducting major personnel changes at high levels in Ukraine. Here’s a look at who’s in, who’s out, who’s up, and who’s down – and why.
RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has interviewed Jack Goldstone, one of the world's leading scholars of revolutions and social change, about the antiestablishment protests in Iran.
Dozens of protesters have been killed in a brutal government crackdown on ongoing antiestablishment demonstrations in Iran. RFE/RL's Radio Farda has profiled some of those killed, which include children.
China and Pakistan announced on January 7 the creation of a new unit to stop a rise in attacks targeting Chinese nationals, but experts and insiders who spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal say that the damage to Islamabad’s relationship with Beijing may already be beyond repair.
The ongoing antiestablishment protests in Iran are gaining momentum, nearly two weeks after they erupted. In recent days, the demonstrations have spread to new cities and attracted bigger crowds.
On February 5, a treaty capping the numbers of deployed Russian and US nuclear warheads will expire, marking the first time in more than half a century that the two countries' nuclear programs will be unconstrained by numerical limits.
The US seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic dramatically raises the stakes in Washington’s naval blockade of Venezuela, blowing apart an apparent Kremlin strategy to reflag its shadow fleet ships to offer them protection -- as well as stoking wider tensions with Moscow.
RFE/RL’s Radio Farda talked to Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official who is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, about the significance of the ongoing antiestablishment protests in Iran.
Unrest in Iran triggered by economic grievances has transformed into antiestablishment protests. Activists in Iran tell RFE/RL that the world should support the protests and that the Islamic republic has got to go, but without foreign military intervention.
Amid growing tensions between global powers and continued instability in the Western Balkans, Serbia has intensified its military cooperation with China, acquiring advanced drones and air-defense systems.
Archival photos show how Greenland became a Danish territory and why the United States is seeking to take control of the island.
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