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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 …
July, 2026
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19 July
Why Did the EU’s Latest Russia Sanctions Package Shrink?
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 …
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19 July
Renewed Gulf Hostilities, Elevated Regional and Global Uncertainty
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 …
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19 July
The Iranian Question: Why “Permanent Solutions” Fail
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 …
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19 July
NATO’s New Center of Gravity? Turkey, Britain, and the Reordering of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance
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 …
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19 July
What It Means for China and the Future of AI?
Dr.Nadya Hilmi UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres , Thailand Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar arrive for a group photo before the opening ceremony for the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, July 17, 2026. Ng Han Guan/Pool via …
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19 July
Washington and Tehran Now Agree that Sea is Billable
On July 14 the crews of the Mombasa and the Al Bahiyah found out. Two UAE-flagged tankers were hit by Iranian cruise missiles in the southern lane, inside Omani territorial waters, according to the Emirati defense ministry. An Indian sailor was killed and eight others were hurt, six …
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19 July
Can Pakistan Match India’s Most Dangerous New Nuclear Capability?
India has quietly crossed a threshold that Pakistan has no answer to —for the first time in the history of South Asian nuclear competition, one side may have nuclear warheads at sea, and the other has neither a submarine capable of carrying them nor a realistic timeline for …
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15 July
Why US Middle East Policy Keeps Failing, From Iraq to Iran
Owen Kirby The Middle East – for many Western observers – is something akin to Long Covid. One day you believe you are through the worst of it, turning a corner, and the next you are back reliving all the headaches, fatigue and brain fog, short of breath …
