Hormuz Gamble
The rhetoric surrounding the Iran conflict may still speak the language of ceasefires and negotiations, but the strategic reality points elsewhere. What is unfolding now is not the winding down of a war.
The rhetoric surrounding the Iran conflict may still speak the language of ceasefires and negotiations, but the strategic reality points elsewhere. What is unfolding now is not the winding down of a war.
The United States now finds itself drawn into yet another conflict in the Middle East, one whose origins are as troubling as its consequences are far-reaching.
So begins Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a haunting chronicle of young men extinguished before their time. Through the trenches of history, the young have always been collateral in wars they neither started nor understood.
The assassination of yet another top Iranian leader came hours after Ali Larijani, who served as Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was killed on Monday night.
When women and children ravaged in War or dominated by social patriarchy is the theme of an exhibition, then it sways every heart, every soul and sends a strong social message to the world.
He alleged that the nationwide anti-government protests turned "violent and bloody" to give the US an excuse to intervene militarily.
According to the Kyiv Independent, citing monitoring sources, the capital was hit by a large-scale ballistic missile assault as Russia fired multiple Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, four Iskander ballistic missiles, and several Kalibr cruise missiles at the city.
The year 2025 unfolded as a period of fragile truces and active conflicts across the world, with wars and border tensions persisting in regions from South Asia and the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Africa, highlighting the continued challenge of achieving lasting global peace.
The allegations emerging from Georgia’s 2024-25 protest wave are not merely another chapter in the long, bitter contest between an embattled government and a restless citizenry.
The former officer recalled that during his posting in Pakistan in 2002 he was unofficially told the Pentagon exercised control over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
