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For 21 hours, Americans and Iranians sat down in Islamabad and spoke face to face. It was a candid discussion  no social media posts, no Tomahawk missiles. Just person to person, human to human. There was a path forward. But it was shut.…

The two-week ceasefire has resulted in a partial freeze of the Israeli-American war on Iran a war that has achieved nothing that a skilled diplomat could not have accomplished in a single afternoon session. The Strait of Hormuz was open…

On February 28, Israel and the United States launched an airstrike against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The attack, which lacked any moral or legal justification, resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several senior…

The ongoing war of choice launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has shattered the geopolitical status quo in the Middle East. As Washington finds itself entangled in yet another costly quagmire, reports increasingly suggest…

As the first month of direct military confrontation between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other draws to a close, it has become clear that this conflict does not follow the traditional patterns of interstate…

The region stretching from the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea (Bab el-Mandeb) is undergoing a profound strategic transformation. These maritime corridors are no longer mere routes for energy transport; they have become instruments of…

The ongoing American-Israeli attacks on Iran, accompanied by the assassination of its Supreme Leader, have sparked a wave of apprehension in the corridors of Moscow. Russian commentators from the "hawkish" camp have gone so far as to…

A tremor of recognition might have shaken a man like Gregor Samsa. In 1915, Franz Kafka’s merchant awoke to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect a fictional horror capturing the alienation of the modern soul. A century later,…

En gjenkjennelsesskjelving kunne ha rystet en mann som Gregor Samsa. I 1915 våknet Franz Kafkas kjøpmann og oppdaget at han var forvandlet til et monsteraktig insekt – en fiksjonell skrekk som fanget den moderne sjelens fremmedgjøring. Et…

February 2026 Introduction Afghanistan, a nation whose name has become synonymous with geopolitical struggle, enters 2026 suspended between coercion and crisis. Nearly five years after the Taliban’s reclamation of power, the initial shock…