President Donald Trump projected confidence, declaring that the US “will not be blackmailed” in the Strait of Hormuz. But behind the bluster, a more aggressive operational plan appears to be taking…

The simultaneous closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the fragility of the Lebanon ceasefire, and the intense four-nation diplomatic push all point to a region on a knife’s edge. The April 22 ceasefire…

Against this volatile backdrop, France and Greece are moving to strengthen their own military partnership. French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to visit Athens on April 24–25, immediately…

While military tensions spiralled, diplomats were working feverishly on the margins of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey. The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt met to…

Greek newspaper Ta Nea published a striking analysis arguing that the fundamental problem driving the conflict is not a lack of messages between Washington and Tehran but a profound failure of mutual…

Germany’s antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein warned that artists are increasingly using their platforms to spread hate against Israel, citing cases involving Bob Vylan and Kanye West as prominent…

On the eastern front, the Ukrainian military reported that Russia is concentrating forces in the Donetsk region, suggesting a potential escalation in one of the war’s most heavily contested zones….