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Previewing the Trump-Xi Summit 

Kim Jong Un’s European front

North Korea is learning modern warfare on Ukrainian ground—and Russia is paying the tuition

Trump Throws Cold Water on U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal

Following the announcement of a U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement, President Donald Trump is now raising doubts over it. In a Truth Social post on July 23, one day after news of the agreement,...

What would Joe Biden do?

Vis-à-vis Moscow and Tehran, Trump should do the opposite

For Tehran, negotiation is war by other means

Iran’s rulers think Trump is as beatable as his predecessors

Iran Attacks U.S. Navy Vessels Transiting Strait of Hormuz

Iran Attacks U.S. Vessels: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on May 7 that “U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman.” The statement noted that “Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck.” CENTCOM added that it had “eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.”

The road to the second Lebanon ceasefire

At midnight local time on April 17, a second ceasefire in as many years went into effect between Israel and Lebanon. Brokered, or to some degree imposed, by the United States, this cessation of hostilities...

Trump’s Hormuz Moment: The Only Way Out Is Through

The Islamic Republic of Iran is repeating history. Including its own mistakes.

China Denies U.S. Accusation of Nuclear Tests

U.S. claims of secret low-yield nuclear explosive tests by China are “outright lies,” Beijing said on February 9. Such tests would violate the informal global testing moratorium. The...

Previewing Talks with Iran

The Nuclear Threat After Tehran Falls

In the event of regime change, the world should be ready to secure Iran’s uranium and reactors.

Trump’s noose tightens on Iran — here’s what must come next

Nobody can say President Donald Trump didn’t give Tehran a chance. Even at the11th hour, with massive military assets pouring into the Middle East after Iran’s brutal attacks on its own protesting...

The new Greenland deal

With America leading and NATO following, the Arctic can be defended

US seizes more tankers, courts oil companies as post-Maduro Venezuela takes shape

In the week since Washington arrested former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, the outlines of a post-Maduro Venezuela have begun to take shape. Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, Defense...

Why 2026 Could Prove as Important as 1989

The year the Berlin Wall came down marked the end of one epoch and the start of another. This year could do the same.

Tehran regime fears defections as Iran’s nationwide movement defies containment

What began on December 28 as demonstrations in downtown Tehran, driven by runaway inflation and the rial’s sharp depreciation against the dollar, has moved beyond a protest wave and become...

United States strikes Venezuela, captures President Maduro

On January 3, at around 2 am, the United States military began a wave of airstrikes on military targets in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and surrounding areas. Shortly afterward, at around 4:30 am,...

US strikes Islamic State in Nigeria

On December 25, US President Donald Trump announced that he ordered US strikes against Islamic State targets in northwestern Nigeria in retaliation for the group’s targeting of Christian communities...

US deploys carrier, issues airspace warning, seizes oil tanker in latest Caribbean escalations

Washington continued ramping up its military deployment near Venezuela under Operation Southern Spear, the anti-drug trafficking campaign announced by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on November 13. The...

Israel-Syria tensions continue after Israeli raid as White House urges ‘dialogue’

Tensions between Israel and Syria have continued in the wake of a November 27 raid in southern Syria by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). On December 4, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), a state...