Geopolitics

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 […]

The ceasefire between the United States and Iran that was signed with much ceremony on June 14 is collapsing. US warplanes are striking Iranian cities. Iran is attacking American bases in the Gulf. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed again. And neither side seems willing to stop. The June 14 memorandum of understanding was […]

The Trump administration has stacked the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) with industry-aligned appointees who have a range of financial conflicts of interest and stand to profit from deregulation, according to a Guardian investigation. The CSB is a small, independent federal agency created by the Clean Air Act of 1990 to investigate […]

Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Ukraine overnight, while Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine killed five, bringing the total death toll to nine in the latest round of mutual attacks. The exchange underscores a grim reality more than four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion: neither side can protect […]

Donald Trump threatened Iran with “1000 Missiles” on Saturday after the funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saw mourners openly calling for the US president’s assassination. “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on […]

Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history, has broken weeks of silence about his health, revealing that a fall left him briefly unconscious and that he developed a mild case of pneumonia while hospitalized. In his first personal statement since being admitted to hospital on June 14, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican said […]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Sunday that he is replacing Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko as part of a broader government reshuffle, saying Ukraine needs a renewed political strategy as the war with Russia grinds through its fifth year. Svyrydenko, who served as prime minister for just 12 months after being appointed in July 2025, will move […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi will travel to Washington on Monday for talks with President Donald Trump, with several oil and gas agreements expected to be signed as Baghdad seeks to reduce its exposure to the chaos in the Strait of Hormuz. The visit, al-Zaidi’s first official foreign trip since taking office in May, is […]

France and Germany both summoned the Russian ambassadors in their capitals on Monday over alleged cyber attacks and hybrid warfare operations targeting European countries, as President Emmanuel Macron hosted a “coalition of the willing” summit in Paris to discuss the next phase of support for Ukraine. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said France would publicly […]

Lindsey Graham’s sudden death at 71 has set off a political scramble in South Carolina to fill his Senate seat, a process that will test the state’s unusual appointment rules and could reshape the already narrow Republican majority in Washington. Graham, who died Saturday evening of what his office called a “brief and sudden illness,” […]