The United States and Cuba share a bitter history that spans nearly seven decades. The U.S. federal indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro in April on…
On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca, carrying a political and geopolitical message that goes far beyond the …
While some Tunisians nostalgically recall Ben Ali-era stability and stronger livelihoods, others see his rule as the repression that made the revolution necessa…
The Trump-Modi relationship is facing a new test. As India balances ties with the U.S., Russia, Iran, Europe, and Pakistan, South Asia’s geopolitical landscape …
In April 2025, state agents arrived in East Sarajevo to arrest the president of Republika Srpska and withdrew in an armed standoff without firing a shot. Three …
NATO's summit in Ankara on July 7-8 had threatened to go off the rails even before U.S. President Donald Trump and his counterparts sat down to work, the Associ…
Iran’s wartime economy is still moving, but much of that movement is defensive rather than healthy. Sales, deposits, and transaction values have risen in some a…
The feature explains how regional conflict reshaped the UAE's security priorities, energy strategy, and diplomatic role amid persistent geopolitical uncertainty…
Sudanese civilians are facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises since the conflict began on April 15, 2023, with journalists operating in one of…
Despite challenges of Syria’s physical reconstruction, Syria’s tech diaspora believes digital recovery can start immediately. As sanctions ease and global platf…
In Africa, where the harshness of nature meets the law of the jungle, another form of trade is flourishing. It is neither the trade of weapons nor drugs; it is …
Eight months into the ceasefire, Gazans are still living in tent camps amidst rubble, health crisis, and food shortages, with aid dropping and priorities shifti…
As tensions between the United States and Iran escalated in 2026, political rhetoric increasingly framed the Middle East through narratives of existential threa…
The war targeting Iran has renewed attention on a question that has shaped Middle Eastern politics for decades: what role does the Palestinian issue play in Ira…
For the first time since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949, European leaders are seriously considering a future in which the U.S…
When Nayib Bukele took office in 2019, he inherited a country exhausted by fear. For years, fear in El Salvador took many forms: gangs, invisible borders, extor…
The fear did not disappear in El Salvador. According to journalists, lawyers, activists, and human rights defenders, it simply changed shape. For years, fear ca…
In this new era of geopolitical instability, the decisions made by the U.S. and China to compete, instead of cooperating, in the international system, have play…
While governments focus on military and diplomatic battles, the current Iran-US-Israel conflict has turned thousands of ordinary civilian seafarers into uninten…
As U.S. migrants retreat from everyday life out of fear of ICE, some locals are quietly opening their arms.
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