Morocco’s efforts to secure international backing for its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara face a renewed obstacle at the United Nations, where Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that any future arrangement
Advanced Israeli defense systems have been supplied to Qatar and Saudi Arabia through a series of defense contracts and subcontracting arrangements, according to documents, official procurement records and photographs reported by Haaretz.
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Europe is undertaking its most significant military rearmament since the end of the Cold War as governments across the continent reshape defense budgets, strengthen military capabilities and prepare for a future in
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As negotiations over the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran continue, experts say Tehran’s reliance on proxy groups is expected to remain central to its regional and global strategy, underscoring
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The challenge of documenting civilian harm during modern warfare increasingly extends beyond verifying evidence to finding it amid an overwhelming stream of digital content. In response to that challenge, Bellingcat has developed
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While attention remains fixed on conflicts in West Asia and their aftermath, one development with potentially far-reaching consequences for the future of international politics has attracted surprisingly little attention: China’s June 17,
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Ukraine has launched what may be its largest drone attack on Russia since the beginning of the full-scale war, striking a major oil refinery in Moscow for the second time in a
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As Washington and Tehran move toward discussions on a possible agreement to end their conflict, a central question is emerging over who will benefit most from any economic opening: the Iranian public,
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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has created a new security dilemma: the same technologies capable of strengthening national defenses can also provide powerful tools for cybercriminals, terrorist organizations and hostile governments.
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In the vast desert routes connecting Libya and Sudan, a group of fighters searching through documents recovered from an enemy convoy uncovered evidence of a new dimension in Sudan’s civil war. Among
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Europe’s NATO allies are moving to address a new challenge at the heart of the continent’s defence strategy: how to replace key military capabilities that the United States will no longer keep
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For decades, Africa served primarily as a transit route for international drug networks moving illicit substances toward major markets in Europe and North America. That role is now changing as Mexican cartel
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A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Tuesday morning, erupting into a massive fire and sending a towering column of
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The United States military has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as “Niño Guerrero,” in what President Donald Trump described as a “fast and lethal military strike” carried out by US Southern
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The informal grouping known as the “Dumpling Alliance” emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic as a shorthand for a cluster of Eastern European states that deepened political and symbolic support for Taiwan. Coined
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In the 1950s and 1960s, a massive wave of underground humor swept across the USSR and the Eastern Bloc featuring a fictional broadcaster called Armenian Radio (known in the West as Radio
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