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.
US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that his intervention stopped a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan, saying that seven fighter jets were shot down during the "raging" hostilities, a figure he had earlier put at five, and that he used trade pressure to halt the hostilities.
The sudden ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia is a welcome relief ~ but it is, at best, a temporary pause in a volatile, deeply rooted border conflict.
The global asylum system is facing a moment of reckoning. With over 123 million people displaced by war, persecution, or disaster, the scale of human suffering is immense.
Israeli prosecutors filed an indictment against a Rishon LeZion resident accused of aiding an Iranian agent during wartime, authorities announced Sunday.
"Today's statements by the Russian side do not reflect the reality and previously reached agreements," the agency said in a statement.
