2022-05-11
Over the past four decades, the IRGC has increased its emphasis on ideological training, giving it equal weight with military training and rewarding those most committed to Wilayat al-Faqih.
2022-04-18
Chinese media have enabled Kremlin propaganda to skirt bans in the West. Meanwhile, Chinese citizens are being indoctrinated with an anti-Western, pro-Soviet ideological campaign.
2022-04-01
Intelligence suggests Putin is being misinformed by his own defence officials while possible power struggles are appearing amid an increasingly hostile domestic environment.
2021-12-22
A deal for a Chinese-built base for Tajik security forces is the latest sign of Beijing's growing influence in Central Asia -- and of Russia's weakening clout.
2021-12-20
The Emirati government was unaware that ships disguised as commercial vessels entering the Khalifa port were actually ships the Chinese military uses for signals intelligence collection.
2021-07-09
Beijing's obsession with secrecy regarding the origins of the coronavirus has fuelled suspicions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
2021-04-16
Chinese-made vaccines 'don't have very high rates of protection', a senior official said, raising concerns for the recipients of China's so-called 'public good'.
2021-04-05
'Businessman' Yevgeny Prigozhin is pulling the strings on a number of influence campaigns around the world on behalf of the Kremlin, but the international legal noose is tightening.
2021-03-29
The idea of absolute power, derived from an interpretation of a theological proposition, has been used to justify autocratic rule in Iran and the spread of 'revolution' across the region.
2021-03-23
While Iran continues to fund regional instability and be unwilling to negotiate on its nuclear programme, the Arab world is getting closer together, and Israel is moving in.