Greetings from the US and Canada, where we are covering this year’s NATO summit held on July 7–8 in Ankara, Türkiye. The NATO summits usually last longer and have lengthier agendas; however, this time ...

In the Chinese province of Xinjiang, the Uyghur ethnic minority faces mass detention and forced labor. The CCP has woven databases, cameras and detention centers together to create a massive network ...

Shamim Mafi, a US permanent resident living in California, was arrested for allegedly brokering millions of dollars in Iranian weapons sales to conflict zones like Sudan. Prosecutors say she worked ...

Despite boycotts and violence, Myanmar held its first nationwide polls since the 2021 coup, consolidating power for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party alongside guaranteed army ...

In the Andaman Sea, the Rohingya exodus and the “Shadow Fleet” converge in a “Ghost Protocol”. By deactivating AIS transponders, traffickers hide both humanitarian atrocities and the ship-to-ship (STS ...

Council on Foreign Relations economists argue that SWIFT data showing a decline in renminbi payments is misleading. Renminbi-denominated transactions might be using China’s CIPS system, avoiding SWIFT ...

Contemporary great power competition is shifting toward strategic “gateways” of the international system — regions where geopolitical influence, economic infrastructure and military power intersect.

China condemned the operation that started the Iran War but refrained from direct involvement, revealing limits in its strategic partnerships. The disruption of Iran’s oil exports to China highlights ...

Gladys West, a pioneering American mathematician, played a significant role in the development of precise Earth models that made the Global Positioning System possible. Her contributions to the ...

The US and Israel started the war in Iran without coordinated objectives. How does such a war end? Between chaos and democracy — the former with a much higher probability than the latter — myriad ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

Between December 2025 and January 2026, Bangladesh witnessed renewed violence targeting religious minorities, especially Hindus, amid political unrest following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster.