Category: National Security

“Hi guys, nice to meet you,” our military escort shouted in lightly-accented American English. Barrel-chested and six feet tall, he shook our hands in a knuckle-crushing grip. “You can call…

Four years after he was arrested on suspicion of spying, a former U.S. Army reservist has been convicted by a federal jury for acting as an illegal agent on behalf…

On the second day of his visit to the Gulf region, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has discussed LNG supplies in Abu Dhabi. Germany is looking to replace Russian gas with a…

Many people have fled the war in Ukraine and headed to Germany, while more asylum-seekers are arriving from other regions via southeastern Europe. Local authorities are feeling overwhelmed and are…

A new generation of officials is coming of age in Tajikistan. What they lack in professional experience they make up in family ties. At the start of last month, the…

There’s a strong possibility the Chinese premier could be in quarantine following the country’s strict ‘Zero Covid Policy’. Under the policy, every individual who enters China from abroad must undergo…

A Malaysian businessman who scammed the US Navy in its biggest fraud scandal ever has been recaptured after he escaped house arrest two weeks ago. Leonard Glenn Francis, known as…

Brussels (23 September – 40).   In the daily onslaught of the slowly widening war in the Ukraine, one other conflict has nearly no coverage in Brussels, Berlin, or Washington – Tajikistan…

Red paint was scrawled on the society’s offices in Berlin with the sign ’40 years of massacre’ in reference to Sabra and Chatila. Special state security officers will take over…

One-way flights out of Russia were rocketing in price and selling out fast on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists. Putin’s announcement, made in…