Ultimately, it is good for Venezuela that Maduro is gone. But his tenure should not have ended like this—and it didn’t have to. When Maduro brazenly stole his country’s 2024 elections, Brazilian ...

Israel and the United States’ targeted assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—and subsequent strikes on a gathering of the Islamic Republic’s Assembly of Experts—turned longstanding ...

Government officials are united behind the retaliatory campaign Iran is now carrying out against the United States and its partners, and the IRGC remains functional. The Islamic Republic is still very ...

The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern ...

The great irony, however, is that the LUCAS drone is based on Iran’s own low-cost one-way attack drone, the Shahed-136. In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly praised the Iranian drones as ...

It was, Anthropic declared, “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention.” This assault on U.S. infrastructure was innovative in its use of ...

More and more, governments have seen a need to compel changes in corporate behavior to achieve their foreign policy aims—in effect, to dabble in state capitalism. That shift has been in the works for ...

Trump needs to figure out what he wants—and quickly.

Trade disruptions, wars, aid retrenchment, and geopolitical realignment have forced governments and investors to reassess risk. Africa is often portrayed as the weakest link—too dependent on external ...

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Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones not only at Israel but also across the Gulf. Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Missiles slammed into interceptors over Doha and Abu ...