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In the early hours before dawn, United States and Israeli forces struck deep inside Iran in what Tehran sources describe as an attempt to decapitate the country’s leadership. Explosions tore through areas linked to…
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Iran
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The current escalation between the United States and Iran follows a strategic framework outlined in a 2009 Brookings…
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A U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran would not be a contained military operation but a trigger for…
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Britain and its allies left thousands of Islamic State detainees in Kurdish run camps as a temporary solution…
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China is not preparing to fight for Iran. It is doing something more consequential: managing the Iran file as part of its western energy…
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The war in Ukraine did not create Western misjudgment about Russia. It exposed it. From officer culture and battlefield adaptation…
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The Middle East security architecture does not exist in any meaningful sense. Fragmented regional actors, weak institutions, and rival alignments…
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Telegraph Online long read A war with Iran would not be decided by intent or rhetoric, but by logistics. The United States can sustain an intense campaign for only a few days before stocks…
China
Xi Jinping’s removal of senior PLA generals Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli has fuelled speculation about power struggles…
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When the United States seized Venezuela’s president, the spectacle was immediate but the real contest was not. China…
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China has crossed into the catapult carrier era. The decisive question now is whether it can sustain carrier…
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The war in Ukraine did not break NATO. It exposed structural weaknesses that have existed inside the alliance for decades. This is an institutional…
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Russia
A week of strikes, outages, and ship seizures suggests the war is shifting from front lines to systems. Heat, water,…
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In the early hours of a freezing January night, Ukraine’s war was felt not through explosions but through failing boilers…
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As 2026 opens, the war in Ukraine is no longer defined by headlines or symbolic victories. It is being shaped by attrition on the battlefield, mounting financial strain in Europe, and institutional contradictions in…
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World
Is war with Iran Approaching. The choreography of logistics, diplomacy, and rhetoric suggests a narrowing path to confrontation that could reshape the region or…
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On a late summer day in Murmansk, the Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika noses out of its berth, a…
Diplomacy
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has asked China to postpone joint naval exercises with Russia until after November’s Group…
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday as China staged a vast military spectacle…
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By Jaffa Levy in London and Abu Rashid in Sana’a Last week — Thursday, August 28, 2025 — an airstrike…
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By Jaffa Levy August 30, 2025 Europe finds itself at a crossroads. As the war in Ukraine grinds on into…