دخلت المواجهة بين الولايات المتحدة وإيران مرحلة جديدة من التصعيد بعد انهيار التفاهم غير الرسمي بين الطرفين بشأن إدارة الملاحة في مضيق هرمز، وسط تحركات عسكرية وسياسية من إدارة الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب، بالتزامن مع جدل جديد حول طبيعة المفاوضات النووية ودور بعض أعضاء فريقه، بعد تقارير تحدثت …

رلى موفق توازياً مع الضربات الأمريكية المتتالية لليال سبع على إيران والمستمرة مبدئياً، يؤكد الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب أنه لا يزال للدبلوماسية مكان. لا يشي التصعيد الراهن، بالعين الأمريكية، بإمكانية الانتقال من ضربات مُحَدَّدة وهادفة على إيران إلى حرب مفتوحة معها. فحتى الساعة، لا مصلحة للطرفين بحرب طويلة …

Norbert Tofall Despite the very real structural weaknesses in the U.S. economy, no BRICS+ country – not even China – and not the group as a whole comes close to matching the role of the U.S. dollar in the world economy. The great contradiction Chinese officials like to …

Global markets traded lower Friday as heavy selling in semiconductor shares and escalating US-Iran tensions weighed on investor sentiment. Chipmakers remained under pressure amid concerns over whether massive artificial intelligence investments will generate sufficient returns. Renewed attacks between Washington and Tehran also raised fears of further disruption to …

Mücahithan Avcıoğlu Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, as renewed selling pressure on artificial intelligence-related stocks weighed on the chipmaker. Apple’s market capitalization reached approximately $4.9 trillion during intraday trading, narrowly surpassing Nvidia’s valuation of $4.84 trillion. The change at …

On July 17, the Council of the European Union quietly froze the assets of one Russian executive and five companies belonging to a single corporate family, ABS Electro, for supplying electronic components that make Russia’s Shahed and Geran attack drones harder to jam. That was the entire publicly …

By Dan Steinbock Renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities and Israel’s continuing military campaigns reflect rising risks of a wider Middle East conflict and elevated energy and food crises internationally. The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement …

Dr. Yashwant Singh Few phrases in statecraft are as seductive, and as historically unreliable, as the “permanent solution.” The term promises finality in a domain built on its absence: states adapt, ideologies mutate, and alliances presumed eternal dissolve within a generation. Four decades of policy toward the Islamic …

Hadi Elis The 2026 NATO Summit may ultimately be remembered not for its official communiqués, but for the questions it raised about the future direction of the Alliance. Beneath the familiar language of transatlantic solidarity, collective defense, and support for Ukraine, a more profound geopolitical shift appears to …