Tigray Conflict Explained: Why Renewed Fighting Could Spread Across the Region
Fighting is happening in northern Ethiopia between federal troops and a rebel alliance led by Tigrayan forces. This conflict resembles the earlier civil war...
The Red Sea, Not Hormuz, Now Decides Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Policy
A Pipeline Back On, and Nowhere to Go
On 22 September, Saudi Aramco began pumping crude again through the East-West pipeline, the 1,200-kilometre line that...
Pakistan Is Becoming the Gulf’s Security Provider
Chinese Missiles, Pakistani Crews, Saudi Oil
At King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, the air defences guarding the kingdom against Houthi and...
China’s Fuel Export Halt: Is Beijing Turning Energy Security Into Geopolitical Leverage?
A Holiday Notice That Moved the Oil Price
On Wednesday, on the eve of China's Golden Week holiday, PetroChina cancelled most of the gasoline and...
Xi’s Soybean Promise to Trump Is Brazil’s Quiet Election Issue
Two Sets of Numbers, One Week
On 22 September, two polls put Brazil's presidential runoff within the margin of error. Quaest had Senator Flávio Bolsonaro...
America’s Diesel-Ban Threat Shows Europe Is Paying for the Iran War
A Promise Meets a Midterm
On 22 September, Donald Trump said he might support a ban or quantitative limit on US diesel exports. Soon afterwards...
Dodik Lost Office but Kept Power. In Bosnia, Nobody Is Pushing Back
The Man Not on the Ballot
On Sunday, Željka Cvijanović of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the ruling Bosnian Serb party, defends the...
The Last US Troops Have Left Iraq, and It Is Now Iran’s Launchpad
A Departure, and a Drone Launcher
On 30 September the last American troops left an air base in the Erbil region, ending the US military...
Latvia’s Election: Rail Baltica Is a NATO Problem, Not a Budget Scandal
Eurofighters Over Lielvārde
This week, four German Eurofighters and several dozen ground crew arrived at Lielvārde air base in central Latvia. They were sent at...
Xi’s Purge of the PLA Makes a Taiwan War Less Likely in 2027, but a Crisis Harder to Manage
Two Men at the Top, Two Ships in the Spratlys
Today China marks National Day with the smallest military high command in its modern history....