The order arrived quietly, without fanfare or public announcement. According to a report published late Wednesday by Axios, citing unnamed U.S. officials, the Pentagon has directed U.S. Central Command to complete preparations for a possible resumption of major combat operations…
On a Tuesday morning in late spring, riot police in central Athens fired tear gas into a crowd of several thousand demonstrators who had marched from Syntagma Square toward the United States Embassy. The immediate trigger was the arrival of…
Christa Pike regained consciousness in a Nashville hospital last week and asked, “Where am I and who are you?” Her lawyers confirmed those words on Tuesday, speaking outside a Tennessee courthouse. They described her as “angry and confused” — and,…
A Repatriation That Raises Fundamental Questions of Consent and Safety The ships have docked. The question of whether those aboard had any real choice in boarding them remains unanswered. On Sunday, 1,479 Myanmar nationals transported from Malaysia aboard two navy…
The near-catastrophe aboard FlyDubai Flight 981 last Wednesday was not a failure of fate. It was a failure of systems — multiple, overlapping, and entirely preventable. According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the investigation,…
A Cockpit Assault at 30,000 Feet On the morning of Wednesday, 30 September, a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv became the scene of what UAE authorities have since characterised as an attempted terrorist attack. Hamam Al Hammami, an…
A Deployment That Rewrites the Rules of Sahel Security When Algeria dispatched four Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey on the night of August 28–29, it was not merely responding to a crisis. It was making a statement about who…
The embassy gates in Asmara closed quietly. No formal ceremony, no negotiated withdrawal — just the abrupt departure of ten Eritrean diplomats, expelled by Addis Ababa in a move that has now fractured one of the Horn of Africa’s most…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Thursday appointing Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the alleged gang rape of a former Cornell University student by members of a campus fraternity in October 2024 — a…
In 1965, three years before Mauritius achieved independence from Britain, London detached the Chagos archipelago from the territory it was about to relinquish. The separation was administrative in form, but its consequences were to prove catastrophic in human terms. Britain…