Middle East

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features Seven OPEC+ producers meet today to decide their next move after pausing output increases for October and November. Brent’s January contract settled at $113.43 on Friday and WTI at $104.12; both gained for a fourth straight month, up 13.6% and 15.2% in …

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features The Justice Department has sued to block certification of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, citing a same-name candidate on the ballot. Legal experts quoted by NBC say no law gives the department a clear power to challenge ballots …

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei says Tehran is debating whether to lift its longstanding ban on nuclear weapons if hostilities resume, though no decision has been taken. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Trump has not decided on new strikes and …

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features WTI settled at $104.12 on Friday and Brent’s January contract at $113.43; Brent rose 13.6% in October and WTI 15.2%, a fourth straight monthly gain for both. Goldman Sachs estimates the threat of fresh supply disruption adds roughly $27 a barrel to …

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in a written statement on Saturday, warned the US and Israel against resuming the war and ordered commanders to prepare an immediate response “without geographical limits”. He also told them to update Iran’s target list to cover all …

South Korea’s exclusion from Switzerland’s roughly $7 billion long-range air defense system procurement competition on October 29, 2026, presents an interesting paradox. Despite South Korea’s Cheongung-II (M-SAM II) missile defense system being successfully operated against Iranian attacks earlier this year, South Korea was unable to advance toward the …

New commitments at the Yerevan biodiversity summit have not resolved the central problem: the resources needed to implement global nature-protection targets remain far below ambition.

The end of the UN political mission removes a long-standing channel for mediation just as Somalia faces a dispute over constitutional changes, electoral timing and political legitimacy.

The arrival of tens of thousands of people from Ethiopia in Kenya’s Moyale region exposes the humanitarian and political risks of localized conflict spilling across borders.