Geopolitics & international affairs
The United States has used unmanned surface vessels in combat for the first time, striking an Iranian naval base with three Corsair drones. CENTCOM confirmed the operation on Monday, calling it “the first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations.” The Corsairs hit a submarine and ship maintenance facility at the Bandar […]
A federal judge in Florida has sanctioned two of Donald Trump’s lawyers and torn apart the legal settlement that let the president escape tax investigations while creating a $1.8 billion fund for his political allies. “This action was never about a party seeking judicial resolution of a legal issue or a factual dispute,” District Judge […]
Brent crude neared $85 a barrel Tuesday, hitting a one-month high as renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran raised the real possibility that the Strait of Hormuz, the single most important energy chokepoint on Earth, will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Brent traded at $84.24 by early morning, up 8.36 percent from […]
More than 25 Democratic senators are demanding the Pentagon release the findings of its investigation into a US airstrike that hit a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, on February 28, the opening day of the war. Over 175 children and teachers were killed. It is the largest single civilian casualty incident involving US forces since […]
Four years of Western sanctions, a weakened ruble, and international isolation did not change Russia’s calculus on the war. Ukraine’s drone offensive against Russia’s oil industry just might. “The picture has changed, and it changed this spring,” said Sergei Aleksashenko, former deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank, now at the New Eurasian Strategies Centre. […]
Tehran has warned the United States to keep out of the Strait of Hormuz, telling all commercial vessels they must follow routes set by Iran or face military action. The warning, issued by Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, is the latest escalation in a standoff over who controls the waterway that carries a fifth of […]
Ukraine and nine European countries have formally established the Integrated Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition, a joint effort to develop shared missile defense capacity for Europe, the Elysee Palace announced Monday. Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom join Ukraine in the coalition, which will support Kyiv’s Freya air defense project, […]
On July 6, China fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile from the South China Sea. It flew roughly 7,200 km (4,500 miles) over open water and splashed down near the Solomon Islands. Australian analysts called it “provocative.” The US State Department criticized China’s lack of transparency. Some even claimed the test was a direct response to […]
The United States has dramatically escalated its military campaign against Iran, striking around 140 targets across the country early Sunday after an Iranian attack set a Cyprus-flagged container ship ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. The scale of the assault has sparked fears that the already-buckling ceasefire is about to collapse into full-scale war. US […]
Israeli settlers assaulted 79-year-old Ibrahim al-Jabour and his family in the village of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank, the latest in an escalating wave of settler violence that has surged since the war in Gaza began. Al-Jabour described how a group of armed settlers attacked him, his children, and his grandchildren while they […]
