A fragile calm has settled over Lebanon’s southern border, even as the broader diplomatic effort to end the wider regional war shows signs of strain. The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire renewed this week after a tense flare-up nearly derailed it, while preparatory US-Iran talks meant to finalize a permanent settlement over the Strait of Hormuz have been…
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President Donald Trump on Thursday praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “warrior PM,” touting their “great relationship” a notably warm gesture that came just hours after a U.S. intelligence assessment reportedly warned that Netanyahu’s actions could undermine the fragile US-Iran agreement signed earlier this month. The juxtaposition captures the delicate diplomatic balancing act…
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Forty supertankers. Eighty million barrels of crude. One narrow, 24-mile-wide waterway standing between them and the global market. That is the scale of what’s now hanging on the success of a preliminary US-Iran agreement, as the world watches whether the Strait of Hormuz the chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the planet’s oil once…
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As negotiators in Washington and New Delhi inch closer to finalizing the long-delayed India-US trade deal, geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer has offered a notably measured assessment: the agreement matters, but it doesn’t belong in the same category as the geopolitical fires currently burning elsewhere chiefly the US-Iran standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. Bremmer, president…
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The India-UK Free Trade Agreement will officially come into force on July 15, 2026, marking what British officials are calling the quickest turnaround from signature to implementation of any trade deal in UK history. The announcement, confirmed jointly by New Delhi and London on June 17, gives businesses on both sides just 28 days to…
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Israeli strikes killed at least four people in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate on Tuesday, Lebanese authorities confirmed, in an attack that lands just days after Washington and Tehran announced a landmark US-Iran agreement meant to end hostilities “on all fronts.” The strikes are raising fresh doubts about how durable the broader ceasefire truly is, even…
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The United States military’s largest combatant command is shedding a name it has carried for less than a decade. On Tuesday, June 16, the Department of War announced that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) will officially revert to its original designation, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) quietly closing the book on a 2018 rebrand that once symbolized…
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In one of the largest single aerial assaults of the entire war, Russia launched 681 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight on June 14–15, 2026 killing at least 11 people, injuring 53, knocking out power to 140,000 homes, and setting the roof of the thousand-year-old Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra ablaze in an attack that drew worldwide condemnation.…
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Even as the United States and Iran signed a landmark peace deal on June 14, 2026 to end four months of open warfare and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the guns did not fall silent in southern Lebanon. Hours after the deal was announced, Hezbollah fighters ambushed an Israeli armoured column near the village of…
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A sweeping realignment is reshaping the Indo Pacific. As the United States and China wage an escalating trade war with tariffs reaching 145% and 125% respectively, India and its East Asian neighbours are moving with unusual speed to build the architecture of a new strategic partnership, one that spans missiles, microchips, shipbuilding, and maritime surveillance.…