Geopolitics

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,” […]

Iran launched missile and drone attacks on five Gulf nations Sunday and closed the Strait of Hormuz “until further notice,” escalating the war with the United States to a new and more dangerous level. Tehran claimed responsibility for strikes on Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, and Oman, all countries hosting US military assets. The attacks were […]

The war in Gaza has become the defining issue in America’s midterm elections, cleaving the Democratic Party in two as progressives and moderates fight for control of the party’s future. Nowhere is the split more visible than in Michigan, where a bitter Senate primary is forcing Democratic candidates to choose sides. The state has a […]

Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina and one of Donald Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress, is dead at 71. His office announced that he died Saturday evening following a “brief and sudden illness.” Graham had just returned from Kyiv on Friday, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work on a […]

Long lines at gas stations have become a daily reality across Russia, as Ukraine’s relentless drone campaign against oil refineries and fuel depots triggers the worst fuel crisis the country has faced since the war began. Russia, one of the world’s largest oil producers, is now rationing gasoline. In Crimea, authorities restricted sales to 20 […]

The pattern repeats. The United States bombs Iran. Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz. The United States bombs again. Iran retaliates. Someone declares the ceasefire dead. Someone says talks will continue. And the cycle begins again. This week the loop tightened. On Friday, President Trump declared the US-Iran ceasefire “OVER”, his capitalization, while simultaneously saying […]