The United Nations recently warned that the intense conflict in the Middle East is severely damaging humanitarian operations around the world. UN aid chief Tom Fletcher stated that the crisis
Mahsa Amini walked into a Tehran police station on September 13, 2022. She walked out in a coma. She died three days later. The morality police arrested her for improperly
The United States and Israel are launching their heaviest military attacks yet against Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated the armed forces will not rest until they completely and decisively
Walk through any Iranian city and you will see their presence. The men with beards and stern faces. The buildings with no signs but heavy security. The banks and companies
The Middle East has crossed the Rubicon. As of March 2026, the world is witnessing the devastating realization of its most profound geopolitical nightmare: a full-scale, multifaceted war engulfing the
State media officially announced that Mojtaba Khamenei will serve as the new supreme leader of Iran. The Assembly of Experts, a group of eighty-eight powerful clerics, chose the fifty-six-year-old leader
Xiyue Wang spent three years in Evin prison. The Iranian government accused him of spying. His family said he just did academic research on Iranian history. He slept on a
The computers at a Saudi petrochemical plant started behaving strangely. Pumps spun faster than they should. Valves opened without commands. Safety systems shut down for no reason. Then the whole
Kuwait is slashing its oil and fuel production because cargo ships can no longer safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The ongoing conflict with Iran has forced this major
The centrifuges spin in underground halls buried deep inside Iranian mountains. Nobody knows exactly how many there are today. The inspectors left years ago. The cameras stopped working. Iran learned
Ali sells tea on a Baghdad street corner. He has done this for twenty years. He has seen American tanks roll past his stand. He has seen Iranian flags wave
The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has entered an unprecedented and volatile new chapter. The United States maintains a highly complex, deeply debated, and highly scrutinized position regarding its
The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has been fundamentally altered by the unprecedented escalation of military engagements categorized under the umbrella of Operation Epic Fury. As of March 6,
Look at a map of the Middle East. Find the tiny waterway between Iran and Oman. That narrow stretch called the Strait of Hormuz is the most important oil chokepoint
US and Israeli missiles just struck two schools in Parand, a growing town southwest of Tehran. Iran’s Fars news agency reported the terrifying attack on Thursday and shared photos showing
The drone flew high over Baghdad airport. Nobody on the ground could hear it. Nobody knew it was watching. On the tarmac below, General Qassem Soleimani climbed into a car
Iran recently warned European leaders to stay out of the ongoing war led by the United States and Israel. This massive conflict continues to disrupt the Middle East and damage
Walk through any bazaar in Tehran today and you will hear the same complaint from shopkeepers. Prices keep going up. Customers keep disappearing. The rial, Iran’s money, buys less every
Gold prices just took a massive dive, falling more than six percent in a matter of days. A stronger US dollar and severe chaos in the stock market caused this
The ongoing conflict involving Iran, the U.S., and Israel is shaking up the world of sports. What started as a regional political issue has now turned into a logistical nightmare
Most Americans forget that Iraq and Iran fought a brutal war through the entire 1980s. Nearly one million people died. Boys with plastic keys around their necks marched into minefields
The US Embassy in Tehran sits like a fortress today. You look at those walls and you understand something went terribly wrong. Fifty-two Americans learned just how wrong when they
The United States and Israel launched a massive joint military operation against Iran early Saturday, targeting the nation’s nuclear program and leadership. President Trump announced on Truth Social that the
Omar was twenty years old when they signed the nuclear deal. He grew up in Tehran hearing about war every single day. His uncles fought in the Iran-Iraq war. His
Most people think the fight between the US and Iran started with the hostage crisis in 1979. They are wrong. You have to go back further, to 1953. That is
Walk through southern Lebanon and you will see yellow flags flying everywhere. Those flags belong to Hezbollah. Iran created this group in the 1980s. They funded it, armed it, trained
Israel’s airstrike on a meeting of Hamas’ exiled political leadership in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday sent shockwaves through the Middle East and raised serious questions about the reliability of US
Gold mining equities have significantly outperformed the price of gold itself in 2025, reversing a multi-year trend of underperformance. Year-to-date, gold stocks have seen returns exceeding the underlying gold price
When Israel and the United States struck Iran this month, the world watched for the reaction from its powerful partners, China and Russia. Instead of fiery condemnation and military support,
On Friday, Israeli warplanes launched a series of coordinated airstrikes across a stretch of hilltops in southern Lebanon, escalating regional tensions. Lebanese security sources confirmed that more than a dozen
An early U.S. intelligence assessment has found that last weekend’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities failed to destroy the country’s core program and likely only set it back by a
Gold prices edged higher on Wednesday, finding some support after tumbling more than 1% in the previous session. A weaker U.S. dollar helped lift the price of the metal. Still,
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran was immediately tested on Tuesday as new explosions rocked Tehran, just hours after President Donald Trump announced the truce. The reports of fresh
Global markets rallied, and oil prices tumbled 4% on Tuesday after President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. The news marked a dramatic reversal from the weekend
The Israel-Palestine conflict is not a dispute between equals. It is a story of a decades-long military occupation and the systematic dispossession of a people. For Palestinians, the core of
Reeling from major U.S. military strikes over the weekend, Iran dispatched its foreign minister to Moscow on Monday with a direct appeal to President Vladimir Putin for stronger support. The
Investors are bracing for a spike in oil prices and a knee-jerk rush to safety as global markets prepare to react to U.S. air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. While
Bahrain and Kuwait, key Gulf nations hosting major U.S. military bases, scrambled to make emergency preparations on Sunday, fearing the conflict with Iran could spill across their borders. The heightened
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a stark warning on Saturday, branding the US strikes on Iran as a “dangerous escalation” and a “direct threat to international peace and security.”
The U.S. air strikes likely failed to catch Iran completely by surprise, according to Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He argues that Iran probably received advance
While most of the country was asleep, news of U.S. airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear sites sparked an immediate and fierce political battle in Washington. The overnight military action has drawn
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