Iran’s economy is under severe strain, but its military apparatus remains capable of continuing the war. That contradiction is central to the country’s current position, according to an analysis published by Die
There is a particular cruelty in watching a militant group dress exploitation up as liberation. For two decades, the Baloch Liberation Army fought a low-intensity insurgency largely through men ambushes, attacks on
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The American conspiracy will soon perish in the ruins of its own making. Before 5 August 2024, Bangladesh was like a sajano-guchano sangsar—a household painstakingly arranged after decades of sacrifice, struggle and
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Delcy Rodríguez will travel to New York next week to participate in the United Nations General Assembly, in what will be the first visit by a Venezuelan head of state to the
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At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
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Sri Lanka has never had a constitution genuinely drafted by its people, according to constitutional scholar Professor Rohan Edrisinha, who has argued that the country’s constitutional history reflects a deeper contradiction: institutions
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Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, has emerged from the post-pandemic period with a stronger strategic position than in previous years. His country is now a de facto nuclear power, its economy
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A former Australian defence official’s decision to invoke an “aggressive Indonesia” while arguing for the strategic value of Aukus submarines has created an awkward moment for relations between Canberra and Jakarta. Michael
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The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
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The United States has spent years confronting Russian influence operations, disinformation and covert activity directed primarily at Europe. Now, according to newly unsealed charges by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), an
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Iran and the United States are both under significant economic pressure and have expressed a willingness to de-escalate. Yet neither side has shown signs of softening its core demands. Instead, developments stretching
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Last year, in 2025, 354 civilians were killed in terrorist attacks across Pakistan, while overall terrorist violence rose by about a third. In Balochistan alone, terrorists carried out 254 attacks. In March
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North Korea is sending increasing numbers of workers to Russia’s premier drone factory located at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone. Alabuga is located in the Yelabuzhsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan,
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A UN report has documented 1,004 cases of sexual violence in Ukraine between February 2022 and July 2026, with 89 per cent attributed to Russian Federation authorities and 11 per cent to
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For Yuli Novak, the crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians cannot be reduced to one government, one prime minister or even the events of the past few years. The director of the
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Paul B. Preciado has spent much of his intellectual life questioning the boundaries that separate male from female, normal from pathological and accepted identities from those placed outside the social norm. Now
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