Next month marks five years since the 20-year "eternal war" in Afghanistan ended after twenty years with the rapid evacuation of US troops and NATO allies. The Taliban have regained control of a country that was supposed to become more democratic and pro-Western. However, it was just an illusion on which hundreds of billions of dollars were spent....

After the Iranian attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the intensity of American attacks on Iran and the military counter-response of Tehran intensified. The Gulf states are facing Iranian attacks, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced on Sunday that it would close the strait until further notice. The fragile and in many ways shaky...

The Ankara NATO summit was dominated by US President Donald Trump's statements focused on the functioning of the Alliance and allied commitments. His statement that he would not have come to it if his friend, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan, had not arranged for it, did not bode well.

On Saturday, the United States celebrated its 250th anniversary. For US President Donald Trump, this was an opportunity to reaffirm a key point of his global policy strategy – America First. The fact is, however, that the military and still economic dominance of the US in the world is paradoxically accompanied by the finding of a new, more...

Is the conflict in Iran coming to an end? Three months after its start, there is hope that this can happen. The Americans and the Iranians announced that they were negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding regarding a peace agreement with Iran. However, it will express the acceptance of compromises from both sides, and this may not be easy -...

Intensive diplomatic negotiations on resolving the Iranian conflict seem to have entered a decisive phase. Late on Saturday evening, US President Donald Trump announced that a Memorandum of Understanding on a peace agreement with Iran had been largely negotiated. Details are now being negotiated, which are to be announced soon.

Chinese President Xi Jinping can be satisfied. In the space of just six months, all the important world leaders arrived in Beijing: French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and finally, shortly after each other, US President Donald Trump and Russian...

On his way back to Washington from his visit to Beijing, US President Donald Trump said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping would like to see the Strait of Hormuz reopened and that he agrees that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. But this is nothing revolutionary, China has made such a statement before.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump launched Operation "Project Freedom", which was supposed to "clean up the Strait of Hormuz". It was introduced as a "service to the world" by the US Navy, which will ensure the safe passage of more than 1,550 cargo vessels with 22,000 sailors.

After seven weeks of war in Iran, we are watching the continuation of the drama in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran announced on Friday that it was open to commercial shipping after Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon under U.S. pressure. U.S. President Donald Trump thanked for this on his Truth Social network, noting that the U.S. Navy...