For an entire generation of Americans, the sight of the Soviet Sputnik satellite passing overhead became a symbol of technological vulnerability. The first artificial satellite launched a space race that ultimately saw
In an interview conducted in mid-December in New Delhi by Sri Lanka Guardian, Lieutenant General R. K. Sawhney spoke at length about India’s military posture, strategic culture and national security outlook. His
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Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its head of state have overshadowed his less brazen but possibly more effective regime-change operation in Honduras. No one can be sure if the National
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2026 opened with US muscle-power exercises, intended to revive the Monroe Doctrine and reinforce its security dominance, which had been under scrutiny since Israel’s strikes on Qatar escalated tensions in the Middle
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The fact that a new defence cooperation agreement was signed between Morocco and Pakistan, during a high-level visit to Rabat, is not just another milestone in diplomacy. It indicates a rationalised convergence
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Lord Hermer, the attorney-general and legal chief under Labour leader Keir Starmer, has defended the legal autonomy of the US Central Intelligence Agency, asserting that the agency “acts within their own law”
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The United States has inaugurated a new air and missile defense coordination cell at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a strategic hub housing approximately 10,000 troops, amid rising tensions with Iran.
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Iran has unveiled a state-controlled whitelist of “Essential Sites Accessible via the National Internet,” signaling a new era of cyber fortification aimed at insulating the country from perceived foreign manipulation. The list,
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The Trump administration has announced an indefinite pause on immigrant visa processing for nationals from 75 countries, including Brazil, Iran, Russia, and Somalia, signaling a dramatic tightening of U.S. legal immigration policies.
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The year 2025 was officially the world’s third-warmest year on record, with average temperatures just 0.01 degrees Celsius cooler than 2023, according to data released Wednesday by the European Centre for Medium-Range
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China ended 2025 with a historic trade surplus of $1.189 trillion, a figure that places the world’s largest manufacturing nation in a category usually reserved for the output of major economies. The
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The United Nations Human Rights Office has issued one of its starkest warnings yet on Sri Lanka, concluding that conflict-related sexual violence remains endemic, systematically unaddressed, and buried beneath what it describes
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Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as
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A growing struggle over the world’s underwater fiberoptic cable networks is emerging as a new front in great-power rivalry, raising fears that the internet itself could be divided into competing geopolitical blocs.
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Editorial As the rial plunges to 1.1 million to the US dollar, the crisis is no longer abstract; it is catastrophic and visible. Photographs from the streets show hundreds of bodies wrapped
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In a flagrant disregard for international law and national sovereignty, the Trump administration invaded and kidnapped Venezuela’s President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. Rather than being an isolated event, the increasing
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