Dr. Setareh Sadeqi is an assistant professor at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran. She writes on orientalism, US imperialism, and the geopolitics of West Asia.
On 22 September 2026, the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) – a banned Baloch ethno-nationalist separatist group in Pakistan, waging an insurgency in Balochistan, allegedly from bases in Afghanistan – claimed that its
The formal end of the US military support mission in Iraq on September 30 will mark a major change in the relationship between Washington and Baghdad, shifting the emphasis from a US-led security presence towards wider regional and geopolitical cooperation.
Kamjong District has emerged as one of the principal theatres of the expanding Naga-Kuki confrontation in Manipur in 2026. Located along the India-Myanmar border
by Luxman Anthony Scaramucci’s most revealing confession may also be the sentence that prevents All the Wrong Moves from becoming a conventional anti-Trump polemic:
I write from Isfahan, the third-largest city in Iran and the second-most impacted by the recent war. Since the ceasefire on 8 April 2026, we Iranians finally got a break from fighter jets flying
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