MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has once again placed Moscow at the centre of a rapidly escalating geopolitical confrontation, forcefully defending Iran’s “inalienable right” to uranium enrichment while…
BEIRUT — In the late afternoon of Wednesday, April 22, 2026, Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, a 43-year-old field correspondent for the daily Al-Akhbar, placed what would be her final phone…
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - The diplomatic channel between Tehran and Washington, fragile at the best of times, has devolved into a vortex of accusation, contradiction, and what Iranian officials are calling…
JERUSALEM — Under a pale morning sky in occupied East Jerusalem, a column of Israeli settlers filed through the Mughrabi Gate on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, their path cleared and…
OCCUPIED WEST BANK — For generations, Palestinian families in the rugged hills of the Jordan Valley and South Hebron have endured the grinding, everyday realities of military occupation: the checkpoints,…
TEHRAN, IRAN - Tensions in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors have sharply escalated after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy seized two commercial vessels and reportedly…
LONDON, UK — In the oak-panelled corridors of the Treasury, the phrase "pay-per-mile" is spoken with the detached efficiency of actuarial science. But in the windswept car parks of Cornwall,…
LONDON, UK - The conflict ignited by the US-Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February 2026 was, for many in the UK, a distant crisis. It was a war of…
LONDON, UK - On an August afternoon in 2022, Reuben Abakah, a 19-year-old furniture delivery worker, approached a footpath crossing near Croydon’s Waddon Marsh tram stop. He was riding an…
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — On a quiet Saturday afternoon in Debel, a Christian village nestled among the hills of southern Lebanon just kilometres from the Israeli border, an Israeli soldier raised a…
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN/ISLAMABAD — On the afternoon of Sunday, April 19, 2026, the Iranian-flagged container vessel Touska was steaming through the northern Arabian Sea toward the port of Bandar Abbas.