An Israeli airstrike inside Syria has heightened the already high tensions in the Middle East.
Israeli airstrike in Syria
Russia
Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free zone would be stepping stone towards Global Zero
Declaring the Arctic a zone free of nuclear weapons would be a stepping stone towards reaching Global Zero, argues Thomas Axworthy.
Global nuclear arsenal declines
Over the past twelve months, the world has seen a drop in the number of active nuclear weapons as countries retire aged or obsolete weapons. China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States possess in total approximately 19,000 nuclear weapons.
No Russian threat in Arctic
The Harper government’s dire warnings of a Russian threat in the Arctic — at one time a regular feature of its campaign to sell Canadians on the “need” to buy the F-35 — do not reflect its own behind-closed-doors assessment of the situation.
Russia: Don't leave Afghanistan!
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized NATO’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.
Russia: Don’t leave Afghanistan!
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized NATO’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.