The White House has the right instinct on AI. Its June 5 National Security Presidential Memorandum commits the government to putting the most capable models in the hands of national security professionals “without delay.” The military version of that bet...
Political Pressure Puts Fed Independence Back in Focus Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s efforts to keep the central bank insulated from political pressure have become more difficult after President Donald Trump renewed his push to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook....
Repeated climate shocks, mounting debt and low employment prospects put greater pressures on families in Afghanistan that were “struggling to get by”. Credit: UN Photo/Luke Powell By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 2026 (IPS) “Mainly, people tell me they’re exhausted. They’re exhausted...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / Palestinian officials and residents are urging European and other foreign governments to move beyond diplomatic visits and statements of condemnation and take concrete action to pressure Israel to halt escalating settler attacks against Palestinians. Palestinian officials...
RAMALLAH, West Bank / PNN / A senior Palestinian church affairs official has called on Christian leaders around the world to take concrete action over what he described as escalating attacks, land confiscations and restrictions targeting Palestinian Christians and the wider...
Libya’s National Oil Corporation may declare force majeure on exports from the Zawya oil terminal as a result of drone attacks on the facility. The Zawya terminal has a daily capacity of 120,000 barrels, sourced from the country’s largest oil...
Geography of the Makkah Defence Agreement, illustrating the strategic triangle formed by the capitals of the three signatory states—Ankara, Türkiye, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Islamabad, Pakistan. Credit: Maximilian Malawista By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 2026 (IPS) In Makkah, the Kingdom of...
China’s test of a nuclear-capable missile into the Pacific has exposed the growing divisions among Pacific island nations over the increasing militarisation of a region they have sought to preserve as an “Ocean of Peace”. The July launch, China’s first...
Oil prices rose on Tuesday as negotiations between the United States and Iran over a peace deal and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz reached an impasse, while Asian stocks moved cautiously amid persistent uncertainty over global inflation. U.S....
The issue of migration has become one of the most significant humanitarian and political issues today. People risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in their pursuit of safety and dignity. Spain, which is one of...
Nobody gets accused of privateering. Nobody gets expelled. The tools changed; the underlying function, mobilizing domestic resources on behalf of a foreign government’s preferred policy outcome, did not. Citizen Genêt’s fatal error, as established in Part I, was sincerity. He...
Crude oil prices moved higher today as the chances of a lasting peace between the United States and Iran shriveled following Iran’s release of six conditions earlier this week and President Trump’s unsurprising reaction to them. At the time of...
Time is a stern teacher of nations. It changes the character of alliances, reshapes national priorities and repeatedly reminds states that geography is destiny only when political wisdom knows how to use it. Countries may differ in ideology, resources and...
In early August, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa signed a security agreement with the president of Puntland — a semi-autonomous region in northeastern Somalia — to expand the American military installation there. The deal surfaced through a short...
Over the course of a few short weeks, a grim new reality has taken shape in Ukraine. Russia has shown that it need not conquer and occupy Ukraine’s entire Black Sea coastline to turn that country into the equivalent of a...
The first proposed Trump-class battleship now has a price tag: $23 billion. This cost, as assessed by the Congressional Budget Office, will garner a lot of attention. But the primary concern for policymakers and citizens alike should be the complexity of...
In the final days of July 2026, Vietnam’s coastline hosted an unusual sequence of guests. On 26 July, a Russian Navy flotilla – including the submarine RFS Ufa and the submarine rescue ship Igor Belousov – arrived at Cam Ranh...
When U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told an interviewer this weekend that the Strait of Hormuz would “become irrelevant” within two years — with more than half the energy now crossing it rerouted through underground pipelines — he was indulging...
On July 30, Donald Trump said his Board of Peace had reached what he called a monumental step toward disarming Hamas. The weapons are not the part Tokyo should study. The gate the deal opens is. Disarmament is conditions-based, and...
University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer on Sunday delivered a harsh reality check to US President Donald Trump over the state of his illegal war with Iran. In an interview with Australian journalist Tom Switzer, Mearsheimer was asked why Trump seemed willing to...
Vietnam’s top leader, Tô Lâm, is visiting Australia and New Zealand this week with a high-level delegation of ministers. He will be the first general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam – the highest political position in the country...
At first glance, Morocco’s participation in the proposed international stabilization force in Gaza and the extraordinary migration crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta appear to be two separate stories. One concerns the future security architecture of Gaza; the other...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Yemen’s capital Sanaa after airstrikes. Photo from Wikimedia Commons For more than a decade, Yemen has been viewed through the prism of regional rivalry. News coverage has revolved around the Houthis, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States and,...
It is damn obvious that Washington has lost Donald Trump’s idiotic war on Iran. After all, it is now five months since the opening salvos of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, which was advertised to last only 3-4 weeks....
On July 23, President Donald Trump threatened to carry out his “biggest attack yet” on Iran after nearly two weeks of renewed U.S. airstrikes. That same day, the House voted 214–208 to direct the president to remove U.S. forces from...
It is a crucial time for Africa in terms of how it interacts with the rest of the world. Africa is no longer viewed as a place of humanitarian interest or of mere charity. Instead, Africa is increasingly seen as...
Vice President JD Vance has struggled to justify his shifting rhetoric on Iran. Once thought of as the standard-bearer of a right-wing, non-interventionist school of foreign policy thought, Vance has been forced to repeatedly contradict himself in an effort to...
The latest Bloomberg data show that shipping transits through the Strait of Hormuz remained largely disrupted Monday morning, even as Iran and Oman reportedly moved closer to a deal. Brent crude futures traded near $85 a barrel as markets priced in...
Over the past couple of years, Colombia’s clean energy transition has shifted into overdrive under President Gustavo Petro’s "Just Energy Transition" agenda, with the country pivoting away from fossil fuels towards wind and solar energy. Petro, Colombia’s first ever left-wing...
As peace in the Persian Gulf remains elusive and Ukrainian drones keep raining on Russian refineries, a global fuel crisis is looming larger by the day as demand is set to increase in the coming months, especially for diesel. Shortages...
NVIDIA’s expansion of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries marks a shift from general-purpose AI assistants toward autonomous engineering systems. Instead of limiting agents to document retrieval, code generation, or workflow automation, the expanded toolkit lets developers...
With over 90% of Iraq’s annual budget still coming from oil exports and historically around 95% of that crude shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, securing an alternative export route while the Strait remains effectively blockaded has become an existential...
Former Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has reportedly acknowledged that Turkey made a major strategic miscalculation by placing its political and diplomatic weight behind Somalia while overlooking Somaliland, a nation whose strategic importance has grown dramatically in recent years. Çavuşoğlu’s remarks...
A new chapter in the emerging relationship between Israel and Somaliland is already translating into lifesaving medical care, with the first delegation of Somaliland children returning home after receiving specialized cardiac treatment in Israel. The development was highlighted by Save a...
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT First Ever Somaliland Diaspora Visit to Israel D ates : 17 – 22 October 2026 | D estinations : Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Israel-Africa Business Connect (IABC) , in joint collaboration with the Diaspora Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Somaliland, invites dedicated diaspora leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and civil society representatives to engage in a landmark six-day program of institutional, business, and cultural exchange with Israeli counterparts. The civil society, business community and other interested stakeholders residing within the Republic of Somaliland are equally welcome to apply. Program Highlights Include: Official & Institutional Engagement: High-level dialogues with Israeli government institutions. Diaspora Leadership & Peer Exchange : Diaspora leadership and peer exchange focusing on governance, innovation, education, and modernization. Business & Economic Cooperation: Exploring investment opportunities, strategic trade partnerships, and exclusive networking sessions with Israeli business innovators and investors. Cultural & Heritage Exchange: Guided historical and sightseeing tours in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. Following the formal diplomatic ties and mutual recognition established between the governments of Somaliland and Israel, this historic visit represents a definitive step toward strengthening ties between the two peoples and building lasting partnerships. Logistics & Vetting: The full six-day program is priced at €1,370 per person (double occupancy basis). This includes hotel accommodation, daily breakfast and dinner, guided tours, official meetings, site entrance fees, and group ground transportation. Not Included: International airfare, travel insurance, lunches (approximately $20–$25 per day), airport transfers, gratuities, visa fees, and private taxi transport or personal expenses outside the arranged group itinerary. Please note that the IABC Business Forum will liaise directly with Somaliland community association committees to coordinate logistics, and all applicants will undergo strict verification as Somaliland citizens. Spaces are strictly limited. The Diaspora Department encourages the participation of highly qualified professionals and community leaders who are best positioned to advance the objectives and scope of this program – quality matters more to us than quantity. This is more than a visit, it is a statement of dialogue, economic cooperation, and people-to people connection....
A deep blue wave is rising, and establishment Democrats are panicking. After progressive primary wins in New York , Colorado , and Michigan , the center-left’s headquarters, Third Way, announced a $15 million program to destroy the Democratic Socialists of...
President Donald Trump and self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are pushing for a post-World War II record $1.6 trillion Pentagon budget for next year, a sum so obscenely high that it is almost impossible to comprehend. The proposed $600...
European countries have found themselves in a trap: by restricting the supply of agricultural products from Russia through sanctions, they are now trying to arrange imports via third countries, Anatoly Tikhonov, head of the Center for International Agribusiness and Food...
Words are weapons, and the Zionists use control over language to criminalise their political enemies. Marchella Ward is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. She is currently writing a book entitled Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World. Cross-posted...
The strangest part of America's latest offshore-wind retreat is not that several projects have been cancelled. Some were early-stage, expensive and increasingly difficult to permit. Weak projects should be allowed to fail. The strange part is that the U.S. government...
There’s lots of ways to interpret the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact: one is that it is a deliberate snub to the US-Israel axis. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region...
The fallout from Ceuta has much more to do with politics than it does the reality of the EU’s external borders Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. An expert...
Residents of Warraq Island suspended on Monday a sit-in they had convened, blocking the supply of building materials to a government construction project on the island, to demand access to their own materials and to demand the improvement of basic...
In 2002, Jamal Kiyemba, a Ugandan national living in the United Kingdom, was arrested in northwest Pakistan after allegedly attempting to join Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and was sent to the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Released in...
About a year ago, references to the American JDAM bomb suddenly disappeared from Russian Defense Ministry reports. That does not necessarily mean Ukrainian forces stopped using it; more likely, it simply became lost among other weapons of the same type,...
Complex systems reveal their true characteristics only under stress. Disturbance exposes assumptions that routine operation conceals and becomes the catalyst for adaptation. Capital reassesses risk, governments reconsider policy, and markets establish a new equilibrium. The resulting system may ultimately prove...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...
Monday, August 10th, 2026 — Today, Palestine Legal sent a legal letter on behalf of Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) to urge the American Sociological Association (ASA) to uphold its ethical and governing obligations by allowing membership to amend their bylaws,...
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