Geopolitics & international affairs
Russia hammered Kyiv with ballistic missiles on Monday, killing at least 20 people and wounding scores more, in the deadliest strike on the Ukrainian capital this year. It came on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara, where President Trump is expected to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks on ending the war. The timing […]
A year ago, Donald Trump got NATO allies to promise they would spend 5 percent of GDP on defense. This week, at the Ankara summit, he intends to collect. The pledge At the NATO summit in The Hague in June 2025, alliance leaders committed to raising their defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by […]
Ukraine is running out of the missiles it needs to defend its cities. Russia knows it. The result is written in the body count: 18 dead in the Kyiv region in a single day. The attack On Sunday, Russia launched 68 missiles and 351 strike drones against Ukraine, concentrating the assault on the capital region. […]
Ukraine is striking deep into occupied Crimea, hitting Russian airbases, radar stations, and military infrastructure. For Vladimir Putin, the peninsula was supposed to be untouchable. For Kyiv, that is exactly the point. The target Crimea is not just another piece of occupied territory. It is the crown jewel of Putin’s project. He annexed it in […]
The numbers are beyond comprehension. Over 21,500 children dead in 1,000 days of war. More than 1,000 of them were babies under one year old. This is not collateral damage. This is not an accident. This is a war crime committed in plain sight, and the world has done nothing to stop it. 1,000 days, […]
The red card Folarin Balogun, the US national team’s star striker, stepped on the foot of Bosnia’s Tarik Muharemovic during a round-of-32 match on July 1. The referee showed a red card. Under FIFA’s disciplinary code, a red card in the World Cup carries an automatic one-game suspension. Balogun is the top American scorer in […]
Iran has a new leadership for the first time in four decades, and it looks nothing like the old one. Younger, more ruthless, and more pragmatic, this generation came of age during war and is now shaping what comes after it. A changing of the guard The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the US-Israeli […]
Russia says it has captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka after an eight-month siege. Ukraine says the city is still under its control. The dispute over a ruined town of 67,000 has become the focal point of a wider argument about whether peace is possible. A contested claim On Friday, Russian commanders informed Vladimir […]
Iran is using the state funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a stage to assert permanent control over the Strait of Hormuz. Ships are being turned away. The IRGC is broadcasting threats. And the country’s new leadership is making clear that the waterway will never return to the way it was before the war. Funeral […]
A 90-minute call on the Fourth of July President Donald Trump held a 90-minute telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on July 4, offering direct American help to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. The call took place on US Independence Day, a date Trump’s team chose deliberately […]
