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By: Majid Maqbool - - - - Seyed Hossein Mousavian In this exclusive interview with Asia Sentinel , former Iranian diplomat Seyed Hossein Mousavian warns that the US and Israel have sent a dangerous message that security is better...

In the two weeks since the US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, Donald Trump’s war aims have fluctuated between crippling Iranian military capabilities and toppling the regime that has ruled there since 1979. But despite the success of the...

- - - - Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash As I noted on Monday , I have concerns about where we’re going to be heading after the midterms. I also have concerns about where we’re...

An Israeli journalist said he’s received death threats from gamblers demanding he change an accurate report about an Iranian missile strike in order to help them win a bet on the prediction app Polymarket. On Monday, Emanuel Fabian, a military correspondent for...

It is the first African country to deposit data in the Arctic World Archive, a storage facility designed to preserve records of everything from cultural practices to historical events A decommissioned coalmine near the north pole is the last place you’d...

Bangladesh’s new parliament began its first session under the weight of a dispute that goes to the core of the country’s post-uprising political transition — whether lawmakers should simultaneously serve as members of a Constitutional Reform Council tasked with rewriting...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has retained the Aqsa Mosque closed for the 18th consecutive day, barring Muslim worshipers from performing prayers inside their holy site, amid warnings of a dangerous scheme targeting it. According to Palestinian media sources,...

Israeli media said on Tuesday that the military has targeted Iran's security chief Ali Larijani , adding that it was not immediately clear whether he was killed or injured. Iranian media on Tuesday said the former parliament speaker will make...

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz says Iran's security chief Ali Larijani - a former nuclear negotiator and a close ally of slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei - was killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran. There was no confirmation from Iran....

The Middle East blitzkrieg promised by Donald Trump is turning into a protracted agony for his own administration. Just two weeks after the assassination of Iran’s spiritual leader and the start of the military campaign, the White House resembles a...

Recent contributions frame a central challenge: international law has overreached, and the backlash is no longer theoretical. Professor Julian Ku recently made a sharp observation in the Washington Times: after the US strikes on Iran, the chorus of international lawyers...

Shoshana Struck, the daughter of Israeli Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Struck, was found dead inside a chalet she had rented in the settlement of Amirim in the Upper Galilee. Minister Struck published a death notice on Sunday morning,...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank last night and at dawn Tuesday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped at least 15 young men during a raid in...

This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that China’s military has tested a new shipborne uncrewed helicopter that analysts say could expand the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) operational reach in contested waters such as the South China...

Trump warned in an interview with the Financial Times that “If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response (to his proposed Hormuz naval coalition), I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato…We have a thing called...

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred and another one was injured when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at them in northern Ramallah at dawn Tuesday. According to local sources, Israeli forces opened fire at two young men...

This article was first published on Pacific Forum and is republished with permission. Read the original here. The United States and Israel launched a “pre-emptive” joint missile attack on Iran on Feb. 28, in what has been described as “the largest regional...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was widely celebrated for his speech at Davos on January 20. Without naming names, he stated that the United States, under Donald Trump, initiated a “rupture” in the world order from which there is no return...

A laser is far cheaper as a weapon than a kinetic kill interceptor. Moreover, there are no supply issues to replace interceptors. Iron Beam can work for a thousand hours before any components need to be replaced. Israel is using...

The sharp deterioration of the situation in the Indo-Pacific once again challenges the role of leading international actors, among which China holds a key place. Reaction to aggression against Iran and the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict Both armed conflicts directly affect the...

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Paying dues to Ho Chi Minh. © Thông Tấn Xã Việt Nam Although Russia isn’t a dominant power in Southeast Asia, it refuses to disappear from the region’s strategic landscape. While China...

US and Israeli strikes against the Islamic Republic are expanding to include additional military infrastructure, command centers, and production facilities. At the same time, the Tehran regime is tightening security across Iranian cities amid reports of arrests, checkpoints, and growing...

As is becoming clearer from President Trump’s own statements and those of his staff, along with press reporting, the US has launched a major war without the input of the experts we pay to advise the President on such matters....

The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are already severe and could become catastrophic. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately one-fifth of all oil traded globally, and...

As we showed in Part 2, a nation being attacked by a neighbor armed with the best modern weapons available from the US and France, saddled with a military disabled by an embargo blocking its acquisition of spare parts and...

This first appeared on TomDispatch. In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: “History never repeats itself, but the… present often seems to be...

The United States’ export controls aimed at restricting China’s access to Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips are unlikely to stop Chinese firms from upgrading their AI models, according to some data‑center experts. When the Trump administration announced last December that...