Geopolitics & international affairs
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, […]
President Donald Trump sat down with Axios White House correspondent Marc Caputo for a 45-minute interview on “The Axios Show” on June 18, recorded in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Over the course of the conversation, Trump spoke for 87 percent of the time, delivering 7,172 words to Caputo’s 1,215, according to a […]
The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs approximately $80 billion to cover costs from the ongoing war with Iran as well as other non-war-related defense expenses, signaling fresh urgency as military services warn they could run out of operational funds by summer’s end. Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg delivered the request directly to lawmakers in […]
There is a kind of arithmetic that Western leaders use to measure loyalty, and it goes like this: every weapon sent to Ukraine is a vote for the right side of history. Numbers are tallied. Pledges are compared. Nations that fall short are named in press briefings and made to feel the cold edge of […]
Macron’s nuclear gamble: Building a European deterrent before French politics tears it down In early March, President Emmanuel Macron stood at a windswept submarine base on the Breton coast and quietly buried four decades of French nuclear orthodoxy. The arsenal would grow. The numbers would be hidden. And for the first time, nuclear weapons built […]
This is a follow-up to this morning’s article on the Vance warning and Tehran’s threat over Lebanon (vance-iran-deal-israel-warning-tehran-lebanon). What follows is the next chapter in that story. US-Iran talks postponed as Vance cancels trip and Israeli strikes on Lebanon escalate The first peace talks between the United States and Iran were postponed Friday, as Vice […]
‘If Ukraine Burns, Your Moscow Will Burn’: Zelenskyy’s Warning After Largest Drone Attack on Russian Capital The billowing clouds of black smoke that rose over the Moscow Oil Refinery on Thursday morning were not just the byproduct of burning fuel. They were a signal. For the first time in more than four years of war, […]
