Washington signed a seabed minerals MOU with a nation of 17,000. It lets Pacific states mine their own waters without the ...

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 ...

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.

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: ...

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

Saudi Arabia’s maritime coalition would unite an otherwise fragmented regional security structure and defang Iran’s regional proxies, starting with the Houthis. But success won’t come easy.

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

India holds one of the largest rare earth reserve bases outside China and produces almost no magnets, and the distance ...

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