ISLAMABAD, TEHRAN - In the opulent corridors of Islamabad’s Serena Hotel, shielded from the cacophony of a world teetering on the edge, history was being written, or rather, painstakingly drafted…
IRAN: Iran Says Targeting Its Ports Would Endanger All Persian Gulf Shipping Hubs.
TEHRAN, April 13, 2026 – A tenuous two-week ceasefire has shattered, plunging the Persian Gulf into a direct naval confrontation. The US Navy, under direct orders from President Donald Trump,…
LEBANON: Escalation By Design: How Israel’s Lebanon Offensive And Hezbollah’s Retaliation Are Undermining A Fragile Ceasefire.
BEIRUT/TEL AVIV — A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Lebanon as Israeli military operations intensify, met with a sophisticated and sustained campaign of retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah. This brutal exchange,…
UK: US-Iran Truce Sparks Regional Power Plays, Transatlantic Rift – And A Fed-Up Starmer With Trump.
A fragile ceasefire intended to pause a 40-day war and reopen the world's most critical oil artery is showing severe strain just three days into a two-week agreement, with the…
PAKISTAN: The Islamabad Brink: How Iran Forced A Halt To Beirut Strikes And What It Reveals About A Ceasefire On The Edge.
ISLAMABAD / BEIRUT — As dawn breaks over a locked-down Islamabad on Friday, the world's attention is fixed on a single question: will a historic, high-stakes negotiation between the United…
IRAN: Ceasefire Or Calculated Pause? Iran, U.S. And Israel On The Brink As Distrust Deepens Amid Escalating Violence.
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON, TEL-AVIV - After 40 days of intense warfare that had reshaped the geopolitical and military balance across West Asia, a fragile two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United…
US: Trump’s 50% Tariff Threat On Iran Arms Suppliers – No Legal Authority, Economic Warfare, And A Backdoor Ceasefire Breach?
WASHINGTON - Within hours of announcing what he described as a pathway to “long-term PEACE,” Donald Trump issued a sweeping ultimatum that risks undermining that very claim.
IRAN: The 40-Day War: A Fragile Truce, A Clash Of Narratives, And The Unanswered Questions Looming Over The Middle East – While Iran Declares ‘Historic Victory’ Over US.
TEHRAN / ISLAMABAD – The world exhaled on April 8, 2026, as the United States and Iran agreed to a last-minute, two-week ceasefire, pulling back from the precipice of what…
CHINA: Friends In Need – China’s High-Wire Act Between Tehran And The Gulf.
BEIJING/DUBAI — As the thunder of airstrikes echoes across the Middle East, one voice has emerged from Beijing with a message that is simultaneously a condemnation of the West, a…
GAZA: A “Ceasefire” Of Bullets And Starvation: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling Of Gaza’s Truce Kills Two More As Blockade Paralyses Enclave.
KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - In the early hours of Wednesday morning, east of Khan Yunis, the relative quiet of a disputed truce was shattered by gunfire. Two Palestinian men, identified…
