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The official primetime news broadcast of China’s state broadcaster essentially act as a mouthpiece for the Iranian regime, while packaging their narrative in language tailored to Beijing’s strategic a...
As Iranian and US diplomats meet in Geneva for crucial negotiations to avoid a potential war, opposition groups in exile are sniffing an opportunity. The Islamic Republic faces its greatest political ...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Chinese sanctions aim to hinder Japan’s defense build-up Scott Foster reports that Be...
AUTHOR’S UPDATE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026, 0700 EST: My previous article, below, said that there was a likelihood that the US would cut a deal with Iran on uranium enrichment. The negotiations...
South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, is reported to have issued an assessment earlier this month that Kim Jong Un has settled on a daughter of about 13 as his successor. ...
The latest escalation between Pakistan and Afghanistan marks one of the most serious turning points in relations between the two neighbors since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in August 2021. Wh...
At the time of writing, Bitcoin was hovering just above $65,000, down again from a short-lived rally earlier this week. The price represents a massive 48.5% drawdown from the all-time high of $126,272...
The arrest of a former US Air Force pilot for allegedly training Chinese military aviators exposes a widening shadow war over airpower expertise, where Western know-how has become as strategically con...
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be entering its most precarious moment since the 1979 revolution. US naval deployments and escalating rhetoric have turned a long-running standoff into a strategic cou...
WASHINGTON — US forces have launched “major combat operations” on targets in Iran, President Donald Trump said in a video posted to social media at 2:30 a.m. Eastern Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister ...
Hours before President Donald Trump announced his decision to bomb Iran and pursue the overthrow of its government, the foreign minister of Oman appeared, in person, on one of the most ...
US and Iranian negotiators met in Geneva earlier this week in what mediators described as the most serious and constructive talks in years. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, spoke publicly of “...
TUCSON — ICE terrorizes parts of America. Ice paralyzes much of the rest. Polls turn against a corrupt, climate-denying autocrat who sees the White House as his Versailles Palace and runs roughshod ac...
After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces launched a massive assault on Iran on February 28, 2026. President Donald Tr...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, according to US President Donald Trump. Iran did not immediately confirm his de...
After US and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a US drone strike against Qasem...
The joint US–Israel strikes on Iran, which killed the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel and neighbouring Arab countries have again plunged the ...
The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran represent a further erosion of the international legal order. Under international law, these attacks are neither preemptive nor lawful. Israel and the United State...
Bettors on the prediction platform Polymarket made a killing with suspiciously timed wagers that the United States would attack Iran by February 28, the day President Donald Trump ...
For years, the hawks in Washington and Jerusalem insisted that military force against Iran was not only inevitable but manageable — a clean, decisive strike that would set back Tehran’s nuclear progra...