Geopolitics
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US Bases in the Middle East: Troop Numbers and Damage From Iran’s Strikes
DOHA, July 25 — The rumble of a B-52 taking off shakes the desert floor at Al Udeid…
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Russian Bomber Bases at Engels, Dyagilevo and Olenya Under Ukrainian Drone Attack
RYAZAN, July 25 — Dyagilevo air base, the home of the 43rd Center for Combat Employment and Retraining…
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Zelensky says Russia fed Iran satellite images of US bases; Trump says he will ask Putin
WASHINGTON, July 25 — The United States has multiple options on the table in response to the reported…
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Ukraine Presses Iran for Justice Six Years After Flight PS752 Shootdown
TEHRAN, July 25 — The skies above Tehran remain heavy with unanswered questions six years after Ukraine International…
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Iran Accuses Ukraine of Deadly Attack on Iranian Vessel in Caspian Sea
TEHRAN, July 25 — Iranian officials have accused Ukraine of attacking an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea,…
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Study of 117 US and Soviet or Russian Election Interventions Finds a Vote Gain
WASHINGTON, July 25 — The historical record shows that between 1946 and 2000, the United States intervened in…
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Iran Weighed Missile Strike on Ukrainian Port After Caspian Ship Attack, NYT Reports
TEHRAN, July 25 — Iranian state-linked media outlets earlier this year issued what analysts describe as a direct…
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Zelenskyy Leads Ukraine in War with Russia, Balancing Leadership & Strategy
KYIV, July 7 — Against the backdrop of a war now in its fifth year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…
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Yemeni Government Forces Say They Retook Positions Near Bab al-Mandeb in Offensive Against Houthis
SANA’A, July 22 — For nearly three years now, a persistent and technologically evolving threat has turned one…
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Ukraine’s General Staff chief Hnatov rose in 2025 and was dismissed in July 2026
KYIV, July 21 — The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains, on paper, the central…
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Iranian Attacks on Kuwait Power, Water Plants Enter Fourth Day
KUWAIT CITY, July 21 — For the fourth straight day, Iranian strikes have hammered Kuwait’s power and desalination…
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Russian Frigate Fires Its Guns in the Channel Off Plymouth
LONDON, July 21 — A Russian warship has conducted a live-fire exercise in a busy shipping corridor off…
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After Soleimani’s killing, Qaani inherited a Quds Force facing setbacks in Syria and Iraq
TEHRAN, July 21 — Six years after a U.S. drone strike killed Major General Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad…
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Hezbollah and Iran’s proxy network extend Tehran’s reach
BEIRUT, July 21 — Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militant group and political party, holds an estimated 130,000 rockets…
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U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes After Two American Troops Die in Jordan
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The United States and Iran have exchanged military strikes following an attack that killed…
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Zelensky Dismisses Army Chief Syrskyi After Protests and Names Drapatyi
KYIV, July 21 — The shift is unmistakable. Ukraine is on the verge of replacing its top military…
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ASEAN ministers urge Hormuz Strait reopening at Manila talks
MANILA, July 20 — Foreign ministers from the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
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War-Weariness Drives Backlash in Prolonged Conflicts
ROME, July 20 — On a continent where the memory of industrialised slaughter still shapes national boundaries and…
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The 1980s Tanker War casts a long shadow over renewed Hormuz tensions
MANILA, July 20 — The long shadow of the 1980s Tanker War falls across today’s standoff in the…
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Zarif Writes Again: Iran’s Peace Offer and the Fight Over Hormuz
TEHRAN, July 8 — Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian diplomat who spent years as the public face of…
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Diplomacy or war? South China Sea after June 2024 clash
MANILA, July 20 — More than two years after a naval ramming incident set off a fresh diplomatic…
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Iran’s IRGC Reaches Far Beyond the Military, Into Business and Politics
TEHRAN, July 19 — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operates as a multi-service primary force within Iran’s armed…
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Islamic Resistance in Iraq: the Iran-backed militia umbrella explained
BAGHDAD, July 19 — The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose coalition of Iran-backed Shia militia groups that…
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Kata’ib Hezbollah central to Iran’s Middle East proxy network
BAGHDAD, July 19 — Kata’ib Hezbollah remains one of the most capable Iranian-backed militias operating inside Iraq, a…
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