Iran’s IRGC’s Naval special forces, S.N.S.F. Photo Credit: sayyed shahab-o- din vajedi, Wikipedia Commons. Militias sharing power with weak central governments has become a growing phenomenon in the Middle East, causing widespread alarm of state structure collapsing and chaos spreading … Read More
President Trump called Wednesday for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation “right now,” alleging bias on the investigative team and complaining about the trial of his former campaign chairman. “This is a terrible situation … Read More
“I have never seen this type of hot and dry weather, and I’ve been farming over 30 years,” one farmer in Finland said. A grain field in Germany where farmers have been affected by this summer’s drought.picture alliance / picture … Read More
Remain fears ‘blind Brexit’, under which key decisions are postponed, would be worse than a no-deal Brexit. German sources insisted that despite several reports, no instruction had been issued to back a vague blueprint deal. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Reports … Read More
Photo: DPA Just under a quarter of residents of the Bundesrepublik have foreign roots, up 4.4 percent year-on-year, government statistics show. The figures released by destatis on Wednesday show that roughly 19.3 million of Germany’s population had a migrant background … Read More
Seven migrant transfer centers have begun operations in Bavaria. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer hopes to use them to bundle and accelerate asylum procedures, but critics say they will create more problems, not fewer. Speeding up asylum proceedings and bringing them … Read More
The next presidential campaign is going to be fought on unfamiliar battlegrounds. For years, presidential campaigns followed relatively predictable lines of trench warfare, with the outcome decided in a handful of battleground states. But the era of the hardened electoral … Read More
A rising number of refugees and migrants heading through Bosnia face dire conditions, their way forward blocked by heavy-handed Croatian police. It was almost lunchtime at a dormitory on the outskirts of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina and an … Read More
WASHINGTON (CNN) – New indicators, including satellite images, show that North Korea could be in the midst of building new missiles, the Washington Post reported Monday, citing officials familiar with the intelligence. According to The Post, the officials said the … Read More