This past Monday, five United States nationals returned home to their families after being held for years in Iranian prisons. In exchange for the Americans’ freedom, the U.S. agreed to release five Iranians from American prisons and to unfreeze nearly $6 billion dollars’ worth of Iranian assets for humanitarian uses.
The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is worsening quickly once again. International actors, in particular the E.U., have attempted to reach an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who have been in a low- to high-intensity conflict over the region for years. Indeed, a day after Armenia re-iterated its need for mediation on
On June 18th, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh activist and Canadian citizen, was shot dead in front of a Sikh temple near Vancouver. Last week, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau alleged that Indian agents were behind the assassination. Although no evidence has been presented to the public, C.B.C. reports that
