Europe met the Hormuz shock without a gas shortage but with a 48% higher bill. Azerbaijan, courted through the crisis, still ...

Islamabad sells itself as the indispensable mediator in the Iran war. Ferrying Chinese air-defense systems to Tehran is hard ...

The Iran war has become the organizing conflict of Middle East geopolitics: American and Israeli strikes, Iranian retaliation by drone and proxy, and a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz that keeps ...

President Trump’s tariffs aren’t just a one-off episode of economic nationalism – they are evidence that the post-war liberal international order is giving way to something new.

A leaked Pentagon assessment suggests the Iran campaign is consuming the ships, interceptors, and time Beijing would most ...

The SDF has dissolved into Syria’s army and Rojava with it. Kurdish autonomy now rests on guarantees inside the security ...

Indonesia buys arms from Washington, Beijing, Delhi, Paris and Ankara at once. The industrial test is whether those fleets can be sustained as one force.

The Iran war was meant to reinforce a US-led security order. Instead, it is accelerating regional balancing, encouraging new security arrangements, and creating more room for powers such as China.

Five years after Kabul fell, the Taliban have proved durable — but the discipline that won the war is hollowing out the state ...

Geopolitics is now the defining feature of critical mineral supply chains, and the industrial and foreign policies of major powers reflect it. Supply is no longer taken as a matter of market faith: ...

Beneath AI and autonomy lies a second contest: whose standards decide when an allied machine may act, and when its authority ...

The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.