Moscow talks on Afghanistan ended without a joint statement. Pakistan and Kabul need a way to verify militant-sanctuary claims, not another text.
NATO says it never loses Russia's submarines. Its own spokesman is more careful, and two severed Norwegian cables remain unexplained.
Recent developments in Greenland and the Falklands reveal the divergence in Europe’s strategic geography and the EU’s institutional geography.
Hormuz has revived talk of joint oil and gas development in the South China Sea. It can work if deals protect smaller ...
China now fields 104 modern destroyers and frigates to Japan's 52. How the balance between the PLA Navy and Japan's MSDF has ...
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland highlights how regional competition over the statelet is fusing conflict zones in the Middle East and Horn of Africa.
Ukraine shot down 90% of Russia’s propeller drones. Against the jet-powered Gerans, that number collapses to 60%.
Russia needs the Northern Sea Route to export under sanctions; China wants a standby route to Europe. Western sanctions cut both ways.
Myanmar mines heavy rare earths that India and the US want, but most flow to China. Could the wartime Stilwell Road open a ...
The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.
Sabotage, drones and cyberattacks sit below NATO's Article 5. Von der Leyen's counter-hybrid playbook is Europe's attempt to ...
The EU's 2026 State of the Union named Europe's energy, China and defense dependencies — but the powers to close them still sit with member states.