The renewed threat of a US troop withdrawal from Germany has stirred political anxiety on both sides of the Atlantic, but as reported by Die Ziet, the reality behind the rhetoric is
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There is a number that stopped me mid-sentence when I first read it. In April 2026, Gwadar Port processed around 11,000 standard shipping containers in a single month. For context, the same
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The ongoing US-Iran war holds crucial lessons for India to sharpen its war-fighting capabilities, both in the short and long term. A few years ago, the Russia-Ukraine war gave the first glimpse
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During the month of April, the Straits of Hormuz continued to face the ‘double blockade’ of both the US and Iran. The word ceasefire in West Asian wars has lost its meaning
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Sri Lanka has lost one of its most courageous and enduring voices for human rights and social justice. Suriya Wickramasinghe, Secretary of the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka (CRM), former Chair
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Venezuela’s “National Pilgrimage for a Venezuela Free of Sanctions and in Peace” is set to conclude in Caracas this Thursday, marking the end of a 13-day nationwide mobilization that authorities describe as
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Every year on the first of May, the world stops to honour those who build it: the masons, the mill workers, the seamstresses, the sanitation crews—the millions of hands without which no
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A central question has come to define the ongoing standoff between the United States and Iran: does President Donald Trump truly believe his own narrative about the conflict, or is it a
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The Trump-Putin Phone Call on 29 April lasted 90 minutes, both sides report. The call was initiated by Russia. President Vladimir Putin told Trump that the current cease fire in the Iran
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On 15 October 1987, Thomas Sankara, the leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated alongside twelve of his senior officials. At the time, which I remember well, there was great confusion as to
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For the first time, the U.S. Air Force has revealed imagery of its B-1B Lancer bomber carrying the AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution
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As the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah grinds into its second month, a new and troubling reality is reshaping the battlefield: the rapid rise of fiber-optic-guided first-person view drones that are proving
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The United States is facing a strategic reality it has long debated but rarely acknowledged so bluntly: China is no longer a “near-peer” competitor—it is a full equal. That stark assessment comes
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Two Elections, One Warning In September and November 2024, Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, swept to power on a historic wave of popular discontent.
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, were a separatist militant organization founded in 1976 in Sri Lanka. The group claimed to fight for an independent
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