According to the Pentagon's recent quarterly report on US military personnel, the number of US soldiers and civilians working for the Department of Defense in the Middle East is 54,180; up from 40,517 during the first two quarters of 2017. The report indicates that American troops are deployed to 14 Middle Eastern and North African countries: Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain. Read more.. […]

The area above the 66° 33' 39" N latitude / Arctic Circle is referred to as the Arctic. It is the northernmost part of Earth and it consists of the North Pole, the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. The region is unique in terms of its ecosystem. The land here has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost-containing tundra. Read more.. […]

The Afghanistan government finally held parliamentary elections on 20 October, after a long-delay of more than three years. A total 2,565 candidates out of which 417 are women, campaigned for 250 seats in the Wolesi Jirga (lower house). While the Taliban urged voters to boycott the elections and continue to carry out hundreds of deadly attacks against security forces, election candidates, staff and voters. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) had previously announced that only 4,530 polling centres, out of 7,355 were open due to imminent security threats. Read more.. […]

The US administration has made it very clear that they won’t make any concession towards Ankara unless it agrees to release detained Brunson instantly; otherwise, even the recent influx of cash from Qatar will not save Ankara’s economy. Read more.. […]

The ongoing NAFTA renegotiation are certainly part of reshuffling, and whatever the outcome may be, its implications will not just heavily affect the trade relations between the North America countries, but also the wider geopolitical theatre. Read more.. […]

The Presidential elections will take place in the Russian Federation in March 2018 with Vladimir Putin as the main candidate. He continues to dominate the political landscape since he took power after Boris Yeltsin stepped down in 2000. The obvious conclusion is that he will be the winner. An important opposition fi gure, Alexei Navalny has been debarred by the central election commission from contesting on grounds of a Russian law that forbids persons charged with serious crimes from contesting. Read more.. […]

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2018 was held in Davos, Switzerland where Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the keynote speech at the plenary session and highlighted the existing and emerging challenges to the contemporary international system and global governance architecture. The theme of the week-long session was “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”.Read more.. […]

Xi Jinping is now in his third year as party General Secretary of the CCP, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and President of China. Read more.. […]

The chief lesson the Russians learnt from the US failures in the Middle East was to consider a military victory as only a beginning of a negotiated political settlement, rather than an end in itself. Read more.. […]

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s new government in Turkey will focus on expanding its global and regional power along with an emphasis on a new constitution. Read more.. […]