The South Caucasus is once again confronting a rapidly deteriorating security environment as major geopolitical rivalries unfold on its borders. To the north, ...

The war waged by the USA and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran is a game-changer, not only for the Middle East but ...

Agamemnon’s fleet can’t set sail to Troy without sacrificing his own daughter for the winds to blow. Even the heroic Achilles can’t save Iphigenia, with his own greedy troops disobeying him. A Greek ...

The ancient Greeks had the decency to admit something we modern people still struggle with: time is not one thing. They gave it different names because they understood that not all time feels the same ...

History in the Middle East rarely begins where modern analysts think it does. Most discussions of geopolitics start with the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, ...

Some leaders build bridges. Others build industry. And then there’s Ursula von der Leyen: specialising in turning off gas taps while simultaneously declaring ...

Joint US-Israeli strikes that resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, followed by the behind-the-scenes election of his son ...

No conflict has ever been resolved thanks to international law; such a world has never existed. It's a fictional world that ...

As I recently passed through my ‘barrio’ – to be pronounced in Spanish as ‘wario’ – the miscellaneous nature of the ...

Both Obaam and Trump are implicated in the Epstein Files; both are releasing their accumulated UAP files. Epic revelation, or epic 'distraction'? Lina Keilany voices her own views on UFOs, a scientist ...

When the United States and Israel struck Iran on Saturday, 28 February, they did not act under a UN Security Council mandate. Under their Charter, the use of ...

In Syria’s coastal regions, particularly Latakia, Tartus, and parts of Hama, between 7 and 9 March 2025, one of the most ...