Israel
The Iran war has exposed a deeper regional crisis beneath the rhetoric of deterrence. Israel’s growing fear is not simply Iran’s nuclear programme, but the possibility that Washington concludes the conflict is too costly…
United States
A Pentagon inspector general report has revealed deep failures in the United States military’s civilian harm mitigation system,…
World
Nearly 80 countries have introduced emergency measures as the Iran war spreads through the world economy. India is…
Israel
A late-night explosion near a missile-engine facility outside Beit Shemesh was described by Israel’s defence industry as a…
China
Britain
Britain
China
Britain
The deployment of HMS Dragon to the Strait of Hormuz is about far more than one Royal Navy destroyer. It exposes how modern chokepoint…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
China
United States
Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing is not a peace summit or a grand bargain. It is a crisis management meeting…
Economics
The Iran crisis is beginning to move beyond oil and into the hidden petrochemical systems that underpin modern consumer life.…
Defence
Britain is sailing through the South China Sea as if history has not moved. HMS Spey, a Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel, has exercised navigation rights around the Spratly Islands, according to…
Iran
Project Freedom is presented as a humanitarian escort mission. But guiding ships through Hormuz means entering a narrow…
Economics
The Iran war is no longer only a military conflict. It is exposing the fragile economic system built…
Economics
The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC is not just about oil production. It reflects a deeper…
Defence
Britain is being warned to prepare for mass mobilisation, but the real weakness lies deeper. The systems needed to recruit, process, train and deploy…
Economics
Britain
Britain
United States
Defence
John Phelan’s sudden departure as Navy secretary comes in the middle of an active US naval campaign around Iran, including…
Iran
The ceasefire did not fail because diplomacy never opened. It failed because the pause after Islamabad was asked to carry…
Germany
Russia’s decision to halt Kazakh oil transit to a key German refinery does not create a national fuel crisis, but it reveals a deeper European weakness. Germany replaced Russian oil after the Ukraine war,…
Britain
China
China
China
Iran
The latest US Iran talks show that the real obstacle is no longer just the nuclear file. It is whether diplomacy can survive when…
United States
The White House says another round of talks with Iran may happen in Pakistan, but no date has…
Defence
Donald Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a display of naval dominance. In reality…
Defence
In the Iranian account, the attempted American passage into the Persian Gulf was not a clean naval transit…
Diplomacy
The Islamabad talks failed not because diplomacy was impossible, but because Tehran saw the United States as a power asking…
Economics
The Iran war did not suddenly break a healthy British economy. It hit a country that had already entered 2026…