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Iran has experienced meaningful attrition in a war it entered already weakened by international sanctions and a five-year drought. These operating constraints nevertheless leave Iran with a rare window of opportunity to realize a postwar…

Discussions about Israel’s role in the Middle East still revolve around threats and responses. Yet recent developments suggest that Israel isn’t only reacting to events, but is increasingly shaping the conditions in which they occur. This…

The deliberate lapse of major reform ordinances in Bangladesh may be packaged as procedural housekeeping, but what is unfolding under the newly elected Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government is essentially the dismantling of…

Iran’s detention of two Indonesian oil tankers, the VLCC Pertamina Pride and the PIS Gamsunoro, marked a nadir in bilateral relations long regarded as strategically aligned. While neighboring states such as Malaysia and Thailand…

TOKYO — The Japanese capital is seeing a bull market in deja vu as policymakers man the battle stations against speculators dumping the yen. With the Japanese currency on the verge of slipping to the psychologically important 160 to the…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s conservative evangelical religious beliefs drew attention even before his confirmation hearings in January 2025. He is a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches – CREC – whose beliefs have…

The US decision to shift its most advanced long-range cruise missiles to the Iran war is exposing a growing strain on its global strike posture as high-end munitions are pulled from other theaters. The US is committing nearly its entire…

Just hours ahead of his self-imposed deadline for a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to permanently wipe out the “whole civilization” of Iran – remarks seen as a straightforward…