The treaty will "formalize the parties' commitment to close defense cooperation," Russia's foreign minister said in late October.

Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry, emphasized that the IAEA must maintain impartiality in its oversight of Iran's nuclear activities and resist pressure from Western countries.

Senators and analysts tell Fox News Digital the incoming Trump administration could shut down South Africa’s AGOA trade deals if Pretoria doesn’t review its relations with U.S. foes.

Hossein Shamkhani, whose father is a senior figure in Tehran, has emerged as a major player in the supply of Iranian arms to Russia, according to US officials and people familiar with his dealings.

A Russian delegation engaged in high-level talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, aiming to forge a comprehensive cooperation agreement. Discussions included defense cooperation and a free trade zone under the Eurasian Economic Union.

Now that Iran is weakened, it’s time to turn our attention to Turkey. It will take more than the destruction of Hamas, the disarmament of Hezbollah, and the fall of the Assad dictatorship to put an end to the threat posed to the world by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

KOCHI: When news broke on December 8 on the sudden collapse of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, even veteran West Asian watchers were aghast. For, Assad’s abdica

Supremacy over global networks and leveraging it to control the flow of goods, information, and capital constitute the hallmarks of Cold War 2.0 instead of dividing the world into blocks over ideology

SPECIAL REPORT – In the waning days of 2024, The Cipher Brief asked members of our expert network to look to the year ahead, and identify an area of particular concern in the national or global security space that they believe bears watching in 2025.

Risk of all-out war may not be imminent, but MPs and defence insiders have urged the Government to bolster military capabilities

Professor Anthony Glees, a security and intelligence expert from the University of Buckingham, claims Putin has no intention of giving up his quest to seize more land.