Geopolitics & international affairs
The United States has now carried out nine consecutive nights of strikes against Iran, with CENTCOM announcing a new wave of attacks Sunday evening aimed at “degrading Iranian military capabilities” used to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. “These strikes will continue degrading Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian […]
The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed who visits Russia. European tourists have all but vanished, replaced by travelers from China and the Middle East, a demographic shift that reflects the broader realignment of Russia’s international relationships since the invasion of 2022. Fewer than 6,000 French tourists visited Russia in 2025, most of them traveling […]
Ukraine’s struggle to fill its military ranks has turned violent, with both recruiters and potential conscripts increasingly using force against one another as the war with Russia grinds into its fifth year. The national police have recorded more than 600 assaults on recruitment officers to date, describing the aggression as “increasingly threatening.” At the same […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has confirmed that his administration is examining whether it has the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he travels to New York for the United Nations General Assembly in September. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,” Mamdani told […]
A senior Trump administration official is publicly criticizing Dean Ball, OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, over his views on artificial intelligence regulation, an awkward rebuke given that Ball helped write the administration’s own AI policy before joining the company. The criticism casts a shadow over OpenAI’s relationship with the Pentagon at a time when the […]
Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, days after a lawyer confirmed a court order had protected it from demolition. The house, built in 2016 through Israel’s own permit process, was home to two Palestinian families, including eight children. The demolition took place in Masafer Yatta, a cluster of […]
The Trump administration’s stated mission in the war with Iran has shifted. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday that the purpose of the campaign is now to ensure oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, an admission that comes as the administration faces growing criticism over the conflict’s length and cost. Wright appeared on […]
The human cost of the U.S. war with Iran keeps rising. Over the weekend, an American service member was killed in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone, while troops searching a base in Jordan recovered unidentified remains from an earlier attack that killed two others. CENTCOM announced Sunday that a […]
Russia launched its largest ballistic missile attack on Kyiv since the invasion began, hitting the Ukrainian capital with a barrage that exploited the country’s acute shortage of Patriot air defense munitions. The attack, reported by Ukrainian officials on Sunday, underscores a growing vulnerability in Ukraine’s air defense network. Ballistic missiles are harder to intercept than […]
Iranians are living through rolling blackouts during a summer heatwave as a power grid already weakened by years of underinvestment takes direct hits from U.S. airstrikes. The Energy Ministry acknowledged for the first time this week that U.S. strikes had hit “power infrastructure” in southern provinces, issuing an urgent call for people to reduce consumption. […]
