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Since October 7, 2023, the United States and Israel believed that sustained diplomatic and military pressure on Iran would deter and degrade its...
Supporters of the United States and Israeli military campaign against Iran argue that weakening Tehran by degrading its missile capabilities,...
In Iranian political discourse, major conflicts are often described as “imposed wars” – wars that Iran believes have been forced upon it by...
The ongoing United States-Israel attack on Iran, triggered by the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader last Saturday, has rekindled military and...
In a post from its official X account yesterday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs directed a message towards The Hague Group, a growing...
The United States-Israeli military strike against Iran on February 28, 2026, was not merely another episode in the region’s long cycle of tensions....
His name was Hiranyakashipu, and he claimed to be equal to Lord Vishnu, the Preserver of the Universe. Tragically for him, his own son, Prince...
It is clear that the latest United States-Israel-Iran war stands to fundamentally reshape the politics of the Middle East. Less obvious is its...
The US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei have caused a measure of discomfort in Moscow. Some...
As the US-Israeli war on Iran drags on for another devastating day, pundits and politicians are eager to spin the uncertainty into clear narratives...
A favourite tactic of war is to try to decapitate the enemy leadership. While such strategies might work in certain contexts, in the Middle East, they...
For years, interventionists in the West made the argument that the long-term costs of the political order in Iran, such as repression, economic decay,...
The United States-Israeli war on Iran is just one day old, and it is already clear it will have a profound impact on the Middle East and the Gulf in...
As Israel and the United States attacked Iran, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began to panic. They remembered how crossings were closed in the past,...
After the beginning of Trump’s second term, the connections between capitalism, white supremacy and imperial domination became increasingly clear....
Earlier today, the United States and Israel launched an attack against Iran, hitting targets across the country. In their televised speeches, US...
Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi shared a conspicuously warm embrace as the Indian prime minister stepped off Air India One at Israel’s Ben...
As court documents tied to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein continue to surface, the scandal has become an international embarrassment, exposing how...
As the all-out war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, Russian political elites remain convinced that their leader, Vladimir Putin, did not make a grave...
Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the devastation wrought by the Kremlin’s drones, infantry, missiles and armour continues...
Last week, American diplomats and their Iranian counterparts sat down in Geneva for yet another round of talks mediated by Oman. The outcome seemed...
For many years, the global “rules-based order” was presented as a benign system of global governance established by the West. True, its origins...
On Sunday, Mexican security forces killed 59-year-old Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, the leader of the notorious Jalisco New...
Prominent American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has caused quite a stir. Since it...
On February 16, a group of Palestinian footballers, clubs and advocacy groups referred the heads of FIFA and UEFA to the International Criminal Court...
The Israeli Knesset is pushing through a bill that, if passed, would allow the occupation authorities to legally execute Palestinians. This...
It is no longer possible to interpret the Yemeni landscape solely through the lens of politics. The developments witnessed in the southern Yemeni...
Last week, Reform UK’s newest MP, Suella Braverman, and the party’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, argued that high levels of migration are placing...
Israel always had a plan to annex more land in the occupied West Bank, and its actions prove it. This week, the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to...
A parade of Western leaders to Beijing, including French President Emmanuel Macron in December, and more recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark...
President Donald Trump’s description earlier this month of the UK–Mauritius agreement on the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands as “an act of...
More than 457,000 European citizens have signed a petition calling for the full suspension of the European Union’s partnership agreement with Israel...
President Prabowo Subianto’s government said on February 10 that Indonesia is preparing to deploy up to 8,000 troops to a proposed multinational...
In the end, the 13th parliamentary election in Bangladesh was not a revolution. It was a reckoning. When the ballots were counted, the Bangladesh...
This Valentine’s Day, chocolate prices are no longer at last year’s peak, but cheap chocolate has not made a comeback, and it probably never will....
For decades, the Palestinian cause has found its most receptive audiences on the political left. Progressive movements, human rights organisations and...
It’s smooth sailing these days for the United States and Honduras, the diminutive Central American nation and original “banana republic” that...
Just over two years in power, and the United Kingdom’s Labour government is facing an existential crisis. Disclosures linked to the Epstein files...