Instability from Latin America to the Middle East risks spreading as conflicts, proxies, and shifting alliances shape 2026.

From trade deals to the South China Sea, states are navigating risks as they exercise agency amid shifting great power ...

Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once ...

Russia is giving Moscow a tourist makeover. At the heart of this initiative is more than profit, but rather a geopolitical ...

Three incidents in one week: a detained traveller in Shanghai, a revived claim on Sindh, and a currency note from Kathmandu, ...

Counterfire writers recommend their favourites from this year with a mixture of the new, the classic, fiction and analysis ...

Governments must now choose: keep political money largely hidden, or adopt the basic transparency needed to sustain public ...

Jimmy Lai spent decades criticizing China’s rulers. He faces up to life in prison after a court found him guilty of national ...

Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong publisher and democracy campaigner, was convicted of national security charges in a city where even ...

Bangladesh’s 2026 general election will be consequential, but lasting stability depends on whether the political system can ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine exacerbated the collapse of Moscow’s imperial influence, and since 2022, the war has ...

In a world beset by conflict in the Middle East and an enduring war in Ukraine, tensions are again heating up in East Asia.