5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (967+ words) Iran’s threat to target American warships with an enhanced ballistic missile appears to mark a new and potentially more dangerous phase of the Middle East conflict, six months in. Tehran says its solid-fuel Qassem Basir missile enables it to “take…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1358+ words) When the US-Israeli war against Iran began, few in Beijing or Moscow likely expected Tehran to withstand military pressure from two of the world’s most capable powers. In the early days, US and Israeli air, intelligence and technological superiority were…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (442+ words) On September 1, a US airstrike hit a family compound in Kuhestak, southern Iran, as women and children gathered for a wedding celebration. At least five people were killed and dozens more injured. The principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution are…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1734+ words) Israel is methodically emptying the West Bank countryside of hamlets and farms to spur Palestinians to either flee into exile or move into cities hemmed in by Israeli settlements ramshackle “outposts” and military bases. Western governments and the United Nations…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (944+ words) President Donald Trump has entangled the United States in a war of choice with Iran that he cannot easily win or quit. The war was meant to be what Trump called “a little excursion” that would be over within a…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1002+ words) I was born on July 20, 1944, in the midst of World War II. My father had just returned from Burma where he had been operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos in the China-India-Burma Theater. I, of course, remember nothing about that war…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1023+ words) Bangladesh has spent 55 years avoiding military alliances. It may now be contemplating the rather more complicated business of joining one. Humaiun Kobir, the state minister for foreign affairs, said this week that Bangladesh had expressed interest in the Mecca Joint…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (736+ words) Here’s the number that tells you more about this crisis than any missile count: Do the math on a $100 million tanker and you’re looking at the gap between a $150,000 line item and one closer to $5-10 million, per single voyage. Daily…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (915+ words) Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1007+ words) Israeli forces raided homes in the town of al-Rafid, in Syria’s Quneitra countryside on August 15, and the operation drew almost no attention beyond Syria itself. Such raids have become so ordinary along the old disengagement line that they no longer…...