Military & Security

At first glance, a 0.1 percent drop in the EU’s total market production index and a 0.2 percent decline in the euro area for June 2026 might appear trivial—a rounding error, a statistical hiccup, something for economists to debate and policymakers to dismiss. But that would be a …

Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt with a record 43.8% of the vote but fell short of a majority to govern alone, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) slumped to a historic low of 17.2%, according to preliminary …

Pakistan on Wednesday vowed to “strive for dialogue” between the US and Iran to end their months-long war despite the latest escalations. “Despite recent escalations, we remain hopeful and continue to strive for dialogue and diplomacy,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi told reporters in Islamabad. The statement came …

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has become the world’s largest regional association, bringing together countries whose combined population accounts for about half of the world’s population, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “The SCO today is in fact the largest regional organization in the world, where half …

Israeli Security Minister Israel Katz said Monday that he had instructed the occupation army to prepare for a “full-scale war” against the Palestinian Authority’s leadership, security forces, affiliated bodies, and what he described as “offensive infrastructure” in the occupied West Bank. Katz said the instructions were intended to …

For decades, Europe’s overseas territories have been treated as quaint historical curiosities—leftovers of defunct empires, tropical islands for holidaymakers, or icy outposts for climate scientists. But in an era defined by predatory revisionism, shrinking rules-based order, and the return of great-power competition, these territories have become something far …

‘We do feel that we have support because NATO is involved, the West is involved,’ Mute Bourup Egede says Greenland’s right to determine its own future is at stake amid ongoing geopolitical tensions over the semi-autonomous Danish territory, Greenland’s Foreign Minister Mute Bourup Egede said Wednesday. “We are …

US president suggests renaming strait as ‘Trump Strait,’ says strikes a year ago stopped Tehran from being ‘2 weeks away’ from nuclear bomb US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran must never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, crediting last year’s US strikes with halting Tehran’s …

The Islamic State may have lost its territory, its cities and the illusion of statehood that once allowed it to control large parts of Syria and Iraq, but it did not necessarily lose its wealth. Beneath abandoned farms, desert tracks, private properties and the ruins of its former …