A War Fought on Two Fronts Missiles. Drones. And a funding shortfall measured in billions. Ukraine is absorbing pressure from two directions simultaneously, and the gap between what it needs and what it receives continues to widen. Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
Eight Arab and Muslim-majority states, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, issued a joint statement on Wednesday endorsing British-led sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, and urged other governments to adopt comparable measures in…
A Protest Movement That Will Not Quiet For more than 100 consecutive days, Albanians have taken to the streets of Tirana to oppose a luxury coastal development linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. On Tuesday, as parliament reconvened following…
The day after Indonesia marked its 81st Independence Day, hundreds of university students descended on the streets of Jakarta to challenge the policies of a government that had just finished celebrating the nation’s founding ideals. The timing was not incidental.…
A student is dead. The shooter was also a student. He killed himself after opening fire inside a Catholic junior high school in Zamboanga City, in the southern Philippines, on Tuesday. According to Zamboanga City Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso, speaking…
Ceasefire Framework Collapses as Deadline Passes A Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran, signed in June to halt months of armed conflict and restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, expired on Monday with no…
Three ballistic missiles. Six dead. A rescue operation interrupted by a second strike. Crew members who survived a Houthi attack on a Yemeni commercial vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait this week have described a scene of cascading catastrophe —…
The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that California’s prison system failed, in a systematic and sustained manner, to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse and harassment by correctional staff — and that the mechanisms designed to address such abuse…
Overview A Syrian criminal court has handed down death sentences to ousted president Bashar al-Assad and seven former senior officials, convicting them in absentia of murder, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity committed during Syria’s nearly fourteen-year civil war.…
For three decades, Riad Salameh presided over Lebanon’s Banque du Liban with near-untouchable authority. Appointed central bank governor in 1993, he was long celebrated in international financial circles as a steward of monetary stability — even as Lebanon’s economy accumulated…