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…
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.
WASHINGTON— Seven weeks into what the Pentagon has branded "Operation Epic Fury," the United States finds itself trapped in precisely the kind of "endless war" that President Donald Trump campaigned…
HAVANA, CUBA - The rhetoric coming from Washington has acquired a chilling, almost casual brutality. “We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this,” President Donald Trump told reporters…
TEHRAN - The rapid reversal of Iran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz, from reopening to reimposing strict military control within hours, has exposed not only the fragility of the…
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - In the span of a single weekend in April 2026, the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow maritime corridor through which one-fifth of the world's oil supply flows,…
The BJP's audacious plan to redraw India's political map has collapsed in Parliament, but the questions it raised about federalism, representation, and the north-south divide will define the next era…
TEHRAN - The Persian Gulf awoke Friday to a carefully scripted paradox. As the IRGC Navy declared a "new order" granting it absolute authority over the Strait of Hormuz, the…