The message is unmistakable: allies must contribute to the US-Israeli campaign against Iran or face consequences for the partnership itself. Yet, as the conflict enters its fourth week, Trump appears increasingly comfortable with a go-it-alone strategy.
The senseless US-Israel war has caused economic tremors around the world and sucked all of us into an unprecedented crisis characterised by soaring oil prices, the wanton destruction of infrastructure, the killing of innocent people, a humanitarian crisis and uncertainty
By his own account, America’s mission in Venezuela is to seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves
Johannesburg not only hosted a successful G20 Leaders’ Summit, the first to take place on African soil, but also delivered an impressive and memorable global event.
This policy did not emerge in a vacuum; it is part of a larger wave of populism reshaping global governance
The only Muslim-majority Nato power, Türkiye’s growing influence and booming defence industry give it weight in the region
Russia’s demand for Ukraine to surrender the free parts of Donbas is ‘equivalent to the US having to give up Florida’
South Africa’s commitment to a foreign policy of non-alignment and Cyril Ramaphosa’s experience with negotiations to end apartheid serve as an example
The Ukrainian president cut short a trip to South Africa after Russian drone and missile strikes which killed at least eight people and injured about 80
Political analysts should pay more attention to the G20 Johannesburg Summit given Donald Trump’s bid to restore meritocracy and dilute diversity
Europe faces a choice: continue with a transatlantic alliance with the Trump administration that is conditional, or explore a new balance with China
the US Federal Maritime Commission launched an examination to identify any regulations, policies, or practices by other parties that create unfavorable shipping conditions in several choke points around the world.
If Donald Trump re-enters the White House after the 5 November elections, countries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea will be delighted
Climate change is a ‘crisis multiplier’ with implications for global security, according to Jens Stoltenberg
On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end
The announcement comes as Moscow has unleashed repeated barrages of deadly missile and drone strikes against Ukraine in recent days
The tragedy should wake us up to the terrible human costs of the continued march of Western imperialism
A ‘frozen conflict’ would benefit Russia while putting a permanent spanner into Kyiv’s hopes for complete backing from the alliance
Despite the sultan of Istanbul being at the helm of power for 20 years and counting, he managed to come through in a heavily contested general election of 2023
Finland has joined Nato at a critical stage and Putin’s reaction will involve a range of measures, both military and technological
Much of the global south is neutral on the war in Ukraine, not because they support Russia but because they can’t side with the US and Nato
After getting the green light from Washington for tanks, Ukraine’s president is pleading for fighter jets to defend his country from Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shock waves around the world. As the International Crisis Group shows, several other crises loom
Will the West be able to summon the fortitude to oppose Tsar Putin?
If we want to avoid seeing the world through an imperial one-way mirror in which “we” are moral and benign and “they” are not, we must extract ourselves from the submissive void and start telling the truth
The AU lacked a security apparatus of its own and Nato and the West were only too happy to step into the breach
Russia accuses Western media of spreading misinformation on war
From Russia’s perspective — since the east Slavic state of Kievan-Rus circa 1053 to the betrayals of 1812, 1914 and 1941 and the broken promises from 1994, especially 2008 and 2014 — Ukraine is an integral part of Russia
Liubov Abravitova welcomed the belated telephone conversation and said Zelenskiy made plain that this was Russia’s war, with consequences for the whole world
With Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the world order has been upended – and South Africa needs to think carefully about how it positions itself
These are the veto power of the Security Council, major powers ignore the UN and the UN secretary general cannot favour either side in the war
The US is more concerned with inflicting pain on the Russians than helping the Ukrainians, according to a Kyiv-based journalist