The US-Ukraine critical minerals agreement is being presented as a power move to recoup Washington’s war costs. But the economic outlook of the pact remains dubious.

A highly fluid crisis is playing out in Central Africa as the M23 rebels expand their territorial footprint in eastern DRC.

The incoming CDU-led government inherits a daunting to-do list: revive economic growth, achieve greater European strategic autonomy, and unite an increasingly fractured Germany society.

US-led reprisals against the Houthis amid the ongoing Red Sea crisis have not diminished the group’s military capacity and regional weight. If anything, they have emerged stronger than before.

The Sudanese Armed Forces have recently seized the initiative in the battle for Khartoum, but an end to one of the world’s bloodiest conflicts remains as elusive as ever.

The advent of DeepSeek has upended the global AI hierarchy, with the potential consequence of further digital fragmentation between East and West.

The economic view from Europe as a new round of Trump tariffs looms. What are the stakes for different sectors and states in a new US-EU trade war?

If implemented, the Trump tariffs will have a profound impact on economies, politics, and foreign relations in North America and beyond.

Greenland represents an opportunity to secure resources, dominate emerging trade routes, and project power throughout the Arctic. Little wonder it has captured the strategic imagination of the Trump administration.

The newly announced Russia-Iran strategic partnership codifies and expands the longstanding trend of warming bilateral relations, but it’s not quite a game-changer in the security sphere.