Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, ...

Israel said the strikes were “ preventive ”, meaning they were to prevent Iran from developing a capacity to be a threat. But preventive war has no legal basis under international law. The UN Security ...

A public uprising might not be enough to topple a deeply entrenched political system backed by armed paramilitary groups.

The latest attack on Iran goes far beyond previous operations by Israel and the US in both scale and scope. Tehran will likely lean on unconventional warfare as well as its missile stockpile.

The US and Israel have launched joint coordinated attacks on Iran, prompting retaliatory strikes from Iran on Israel and US military bases in the region. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader ...

President Trump has appealed to Iranians to topple their government, but a popular uprising is unlikely to defeat current leadership or the Revolutionary Guards, a former US diplomat says.

When floods hit, incomes collapse and assets are lost. Food insecurity rises. Health services are disrupted just when they are most needed. In these conditions, malaria becomes far more than an ...

Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have relied on borderlands and declining political will to avoid detection.

Since April 2025, the US has imposed additional bilateral “reciprocal” tariffs ranging lately from 10% to 30% on countries eligible for the Agoa terms. Critically, Agoa only waives the standard tariff ...

From the 1960s onward, dissident Cubans in exile have sought to undermine the government in Havana − often with US assistance ...

So Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran has the potential to plunge the world into deep crisis. Expect more refugees, more economic turmoil, more trauma, death and destruction. The only hope now is ...

It appeared that diplomacy was working, but the strikes by the US and Israel now risk destroying any chance of a peaceful resolution of this crisis.