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The U.S.-Iran war has reached its six-month mark without a settlement, despite intensified mediation by Pakistan, Qatar and Oman and continuing efforts to revive the collapsed but still viable June peace outline,
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As BRICS prepares to meet in New Delhi, it would do well to understand not only what the United States is doing, but why. The reported American move to gain majority control
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“Strategic autonomy is a fairly, I think it’s not of much use from my view,” says C. Raja Mohan. “All countries, some more Indians think they’re the only ones who do strategic
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As relations between US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have become increasingly strained, America’s ambassador to Italy has embarked on a very different form of diplomacy: a 383-foot
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The Pentagon is facing a striking dual pressure: an increasingly political battle over who speaks for the US military, and growing concern among senior commanders about the resources being consumed by the
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The relationship between the United States and Taiwan has “never been stronger”, the top American diplomat in Taipei said on Monday, highlighting Taiwan’s growing role in US high-tech manufacturing and investment. Although
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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s energy hub of Kharg Island was being “blown to smithereens”, after US forces struck two rocket launchers on another Iranian island in the
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Nicolás Maduro has released the first known images of himself from inside a New York prison, eight months after he was detained by US forces and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center
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After months of exhausting all options and with limited impact from Operation Economic Fury on Iran, the US now appears to be launching a full-scale economic offensive against Iran to up the
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The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for a ‘leisure trip’ in Thailand before returning to its campaign of destruction against the people of West Asia demands immediate interrogation and opposition. For
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