Geopolitics & international affairs
The G7 friendship that seemed to promise so much has shattered in spectacular fashion, with Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni trading bitter accusations over a disputed photo that has now triggered a full-blown diplomatic crisis between Washington and Rome. What began as an offhand remark by President Trump to an Italian broadcaster has spiraled into […]
Trump vows no Iranian tolls in Hormuz but opens door for US charges, exposing fragile ceasefire deal President Donald Trump declared Saturday that Iran will not charge tolls on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but his accompanying warning that the United States could impose its own tolls if peace talks fail has laid bare […]
Trump’s Iran deal leaves Israel feeling sold out by its closest ally The deal President Trump struck with Iran this week was never going to please Israel. But the scale of the anger now pouring out of the country suggests something deeper than policy disagreement. Israelis across the political spectrum say they have been betrayed […]
The children keep dying, and the world calls it a ceasefire An Israeli strike hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Saturday. Among the dead were two children. Also killed was Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman for Al Jazeera. Wishah’s brother, Mohammed, also worked for the network. He was killed by […]
The peace deal Donald Trump signed with Iran this week may end the shooting, but it does not settle what the war cost — in lives, in political capital, or in the region’s trust in American guarantees. Two stories that emerged on the same day capture the gap between the deal’s tidy framework and the […]
Israeli officials and U.S. lawmakers from both parties have unleashed a wave of criticism against the U.S.-Iran peace deal signed on June 17, arguing that the Memorandum of Understanding amounts to a strategic surrender that fails to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, missile arsenal, or support for proxy militias across the Middle East. The deal, which […]
Iran told the United States on Friday that it must ensure Israel halts its military operations in Lebanon before Tehran will proceed with formalizing the landmark ceasefire agreement signed earlier this week, signaling that the Lebanon front remains the single most volatile obstacle to a permanent end to the broader regional war. Speaking on the […]
On paper, there are ceasefires. On the ground, the killing continues. Two reports this week show just how hollow those commitments have become, one from Gaza, where a child dies every day under a truce that was supposed to end the war, and one from Lebanon, where a new ceasefire lasted minutes before Israeli warplanes […]
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused Donald Trump of fabricating a story that she “begged” him for a photograph at this week’s G7 summit, triggering a diplomatic row that saw Italy’s foreign minister cancel a planned trip to the United States. The incident is the latest and most public rupture in what was once a […]
Ukraine bolsters northern defenses as fears grow that Belarus is being pulled into the war KYIV. Ukraine is rushing to reinforce its northern border with Belarus, laying down anti-tank barriers, concertina wire, and additional surveillance systems amid mounting evidence that Minsk is being drawn ever deeper into Russia’s war machine. Since the beginning of 2026, […]
