Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...

Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, has won the first ever Organized Crime and Corruption Person of the Year bestowed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The award ...

Syrian president Bashar Assad was meeting the Queen today, after publicly rebuffing a call from Tony Blair to shut down Palestinian terror organisations operating in ...

Official salaries for world leaders range from the modest to the outstandingly generous. Meanwhile, many premiers past and present boasted outrageous wealth before they bagged the top job, while ...

Previous winners have been Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, and the Romanian Parliament. Finishing a close second and third in the polling respectively were the ...

“How do you know it was Bashar al-Assad or Russia that bombed you, and not Isis?’” she asked, according to Mouaz Moustafa, a Syrian activist who was translating her conversation with the girl ...

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Oscar Jenkins, a 32-year-old teacher from Melbourne, had travelled to Ukraine and was serving alongside its army when he was captured by Russian soldiers in late 2024.

In his article titled ‘Euphoria of Regime Change in Syria Fraught With Danger due to Elephant in the Room - Israel’ Iqbal Jassat of the Media Review Network appears to revel in the downfall of Bashar ...