With a Russian apologist preparing to return to the White House, Keir Giles plots out how he believes Putin will use the new American president, Ukraine’s defenselessness, and the chill of life ...

Possible good news is that, as the year went on, the ground in the Middle East shifted. Israel pushed Iran onto its back foot. Iran’s president and foreign minister died in a mysterious helicopter ...

The road ahead for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is fraught with peril, and the landmines that await could severely undermine his ambitions amid the slightest miscalculation, writes Washington ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...