The sky over the Arabian Peninsula lit up not with the summer sun, but with the ominous glow of interceptions and impact detonations on Sunday, as the fragile architecture of…
The Muscat Mirage And The Hormuz Inferno: How A Failed Warning Shot Unravelled Into A Regional War.
The diplomatic ink had barely dried on the draft proposals in Muscat before the Strait of Hormuz choked on fire and missile exhaust. In a rapid, three-night campaign that has…
Day 119: A Regional Tinderbox, US-Iran Strikes, Kurdish Front Erupts, And Diplomacy Frays
BEIRUT/ERBIL/WASHINGTON — On the 119th day of a widening arc of conflict that has already swallowed Gaza, southern Lebanon, and the waters of the Persian Gulf, the Middle East woke…
GULF ON THE BRINK: How A Night Of Tit-For-Tat Strikes Exposed The Fragility Of The Iran–US Ceasefire.
MANAMA, BAHRAIN / TEHRAN - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced in the early hours of Wednesday that its Aerospace and Navy forces had launched coordinated missile and drone strikes…
IRAN: Ceasefire On Paper, War In Practice: How The US-Iran Shadow War Is Spilling Across The Gulf And Rendering Diplomacy A Fiction.
KUWAIT CITY / BANDAR ABBAS / BEIRUT — At 4:50 a.m. local time Thursday, a ballistic missile arced across the dark skies of the northern Gulf, aimed at a sprawling…
IRAN-US: The Ceasefire That Never Was – How The Strait Of Hormuz Became The Fulcrum Of A Failed Peace.
The Unravelling Of The US-Iran Truce, The Billions Held Hostage, And The Red Lines Being Drawn Across The Persian Gulf.
IRAN: Iran Condemns Trump’s ‘Pirates’ Remark As Admission Of Unlawful US Naval Operations.
TEHRAN - A single word — 'pirates' — uttered by a US president at a Florida fundraiser has forced a long-suppressed reality out of the shadows of the Strait of…
IRAN: “No Well Exploded”: Inside Tehran’s Taunt, Washington’s Blockade Theory, And The Oil Shock Threatening To Reshape Global Order.
TEHRAN / WASHINGTON / DUBAI — For three days, the world waited for Iran’s oil fields to detonate from within. On April 26, from the gilded confines of a Fox…
IRAN: The Touska Incident: Anatomy Of A Maritime Confrontation That Brought US–Iran To The Brink.
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.
US-IRAN: US Escalates Military Presence With 10,000 More Troops As Iran Ceasefire Hangs By A Thread.
WASHINGTON, TEHRAN - The United States is dramatically escalating its military posture in the Middle East, deploying more than 10,000 additional troops even as a fragile ceasefire with Iran teeters…
