Examining NATO: Inside the ‘commitment gap’ as US carries alliance deterrence
This is part one of a series examining the challenges confronting the NATO alliance.As President Donald Trump ramps up pressure...
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‘Killing off the country’: Iran executes dozens, arrests 4,000+ in war crackdown
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday accused Iran’s regime of dramatically intensifying its crackdown on dissent...
Musk Warns of Killer AI — While He and the Rest of Silicon Valley Cash In on AI That Kills
The bitter courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman captivating the tech industry this week revolves in no small...
Global famine fears rise as Hormuz crisis threatens ‘eight-year,’ Suez-scale disruption
Analysts warn global famine fears are rising as food prices climb and fragile supply chains are strained during the Strait...
Israel defense chief warns strikes on Iran could resume soon, signals campaign not over
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Thursday that Israel may soon resume military action against Iran, signaling that despite what...
‘No credibility’: Obama’s top Iran negotiator torched by State Department after ripping Trump war plan
As the leader of President Barack Obama’s negotiating team on the nuclear agreement with Iran, Wendy Sherman launched a no-holds-barred...
Iran’s $800M oil smuggling scheme uses tankers posing as Iraqi ships to dodge blockade
Sanctioned tankers disguised as Iraqi vessels are moving hundreds of millions of dollars in Iranian crude as President Donald Trump...
US condemns Iran’s leadership role at UN nuclear conference as ‘beyond shameful’
The United States, joined by the United Arab Emirates and backed by concerns from key European powers, sharply condemned the...
Iran turmoil erupts: Ultra-hardliner who mocked Trump poised to take over nuclear talks
Further signs of turmoil are emerging in Iran’s U.S. negotiating team as hardliner Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf looks set to be...
Iran’s good cop, bad cop game implodes as experts warn regime views US as ‘evil’
Days after Iran’s leadership projected a unified front, undermining the long-cited moderate-vs.-hardliner divide, President Donald Trump canceled planned talks with...
US targets Chinese refinery in sweeping Iran oil crackdown, sanctions ‘shadow fleet’ tankers
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday sanctioned a major Chinese oil refinery and dozens of...
US economic chokehold on Iran reaches peak leverage as collapse risks emerge
U.S. economic pressure on Iran has reached one of its most powerful points in decades, but inconsistent enforcement has prevented...
Iran escalates Hormuz ‘tit-for-tat,’ seizes ship tied to billionaire close to Trump, Macron
Tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz April 22 after Iran’s IRGC seized two vessels in what analysts describe as...
Nuclear experts warn Iran’s uranium ‘right’ is a myth, say Trump is right to hold firm
Amid charged exchanges between President Trump and Iran’s fragmented leadership over the regime's insistence that it retain its nuclear enrichment...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard sidelines president as military grip expands
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite branch of the Iranian armed forces, has blocked President Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidential...
