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A Muslim Trifecta: The New Challenge to Washington’s Middle East
In the city where Islam began, three leaders sat down last Friday and signed something the region has not seen before. Saudi Arabia's Mohammed...
Is India’s Indus Freeze a Warning for Every Shared River on Earth?
Can a Treaty Survive Once One Side Decides Trust Is Gone
On May 15, 2026, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled that a dam...
El Tigre, Ceuta, and the Illusion of a Unified Right
On 7 August, Abelardo de la Espriella — a Colombian-Italian-American lawyer nicknamed "El Tigre," whom Donald Trump had called a future "great president" months...
Who Actually Controls the Money Meant to Rebuild Gaza?
On July 30, Gaza's parties signed a disarmament roadmap that Washington called a historic breakthrough, the latest turn in a sequencing fight this outlet...
Why the Shadow Fleet’s Baltic Reckoning Won’t Look Like the Mediterranean’s
On August 2nd, Italian commandos rappelled from a helicopter onto the deck of the Toa Payoh, a Russian-linked crude carrier, in the Mediterranean. It...
Kuwait caught in the crossfire: How the Iran War is Engulfing the Middle East
Kuwait has since the beginning of the Iran War in February been targeted by Iranian drones and missiles 1,400 times. Why has this state—smaller...
The First Major Test of OPEC+ After UAE’s Exit
For almost six decades, the United Arab Emirates had been a member of OPEC, but all of that came to an end on May...
The First Draft Is No Longer Theirs
At roughly 4am on 30 July, a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile came down in farmland near Tarnawa-Kolonia, Poland, after Polish radar lost track of...
NATO’s Escalation Problem: The New Psychology of Russian Provocation
Every time Russia crosses a line NATO said mattered and NATO's response looks functionally identical to its response to the previous violation, the alliance...
The Periodic Table Is a Sanctions Weapon Now
On 23 July, the EU adopted its toughest sanctions package yet against Russian oil and gas revenue — asset freezes on 94 banks, an...