Pakistan

To Combat Iran’s Assassination Attempts, the US Must Project Strength

“It is highly relevant that this was a cross-border crime,” declared US Federal judge Colleen McMahon, regarding an Iranian assassination attempt on US soil.  She added, “It is...

US pushes for UN resolution on Gaza to support peace plan

The US is seeking a United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza “aimed at bolstering President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including by greenlighting an international security force,”...

Are Nuclear Tests Back?

Clarity is key on most issues relating to nuclear weapons, and testing them is no exception.

Turkey Hosts Meeting of Leading Islamic Foreign Ministers To Discuss Future of Gaza

'Palestinians Should Govern Palestinians’: Turkey convened a meeting of foreign ministers of Muslim-majority countries on November 3 to discuss the future of the Gaza ceasefire...

New Tech Transfer Between UAE and China Should Throw Sand in the Gears of U.S. AI Exports to the Gulf

The United States may have inadvertently green-lit funding for Chinese missile technology. On October 25, the Financial Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had collected information in 2022...

Why Iran Won’t Follow FATF Counter-Terrorism Rules

As usual, Tehran will make surface-level concessions and play for time. But it will never commit to genuine counter-terrorism regulation.

Covert Action Cover to Cover

REVIEW: ‘The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature’ by Charlie English

Iran threatens nuclear weaponization ambitions

Mahmoud Reza Aghamiri, the president of Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University and one of the Islamic Republic’s prominent nuclear scientists, offered a rare glimpse into Tehran’s calculus behind weaponization. During...

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled

Pakistan, Afghan Taliban agree to ceasefire after another clash along the border

Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire after their forces exchanged fire across the border on October 15. The two countries have clashed over the past month as the Movement of the...

Afghan Taliban, Pakistani military clash along the border

The Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani military skirmished along their joint border overnight after the Taliban launched a “retaliatory operation” for the Pakistani Air Force targeting the head of the...

Pakistani Taliban leader thought to be targeted in airstrike on Afghan capital

The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) is rumored to have been killed in a Pakistani military airstrike in the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday. The strike took place as tensions...

Pakistan attempts to shift blame for TTP attacks toward India

The Movement of the Taliban (TTP) in Pakistan killed 11 Pakistani soldiers, including two officers, in an ambush in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last night. Pakistani officials blamed...

Zero Enrichment Is Back. The US and Europe Must Enforce It.

Iran is not hesitating to rebuild its nuclear program. A zero-enrichment policy is the only way to prevent further nuclear proliferation.

‘3 to 4 Days’: Trump Hands Hamas Deadline for Peace Plan Response as Arab, Muslim States Line Up in Support

Deadline for Hamas: U.S. President Donald Trump said on September 30 that Hamas has ‘three to four’ days to accept the U.S.-proposed 20-step plan to permanently end the war...

Game Over for Hamas

President Trump does not lend his name to a plan lightly. His 21-point program to end the Gaza War has garnered unprecedented support from Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan,...

Qatar is no Arab Switzerland

It’s a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist haven

UN Security Council Nixes Resolution to Halt Reimposition of Sanctions Against Iran

Sanctions on Iran Set To Return: The 15-member UN Security Council voted on September 19 against a resolution to halt the imminent reimposition of UN sanctions against Iran, known as “snapback.” Only...

As Beijing beckons, is Washington sleepwalking on Egypt?

While Chinese fighter jets split Egypt’s skies in May, it was American armor that shook its sands earlier this month. Bright Star 25, one of the world’s largest multinational military...

Saudi Arabia and Nuclear-Armed Pakistan Sign ‘Comprehensive’ Mutual Defense Pact

Mutual Defense Agreement: Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact on September 17, strengthening the longstanding security partnership between the two...