Indonesia is facing a growing rescue and humanitarian crisis after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Flores Island, with the death toll rising to at least 68 and more than 200 people injured. The bigger challenge now is not only finding survivors, but reaching communities that have been cut off by landslides, damaged roads and communication…
President Donald Trump has once again made Iran’s nuclear program the center of his policy, saying preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon remains his “number one Goal”. His statement comes at a particularly important moment because the 60-day period created by a US-Iran memorandum has now expired without a broader agreement. That makes Trump’s…
Two Iranian-launched drones targeting the private office of Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the home of a senior security official in Erbil may not have caused casualties, but the choice of targets makes the attack more significant than another drone incident. Kurdish counterterrorism authorities said the Hadid-110 explosive drones were launched from Iranian…
More than seven decades after the Korean War stopped, South Korea is once again asking North Korea to talk about peace. President Lee Jae Myung used his Liberation Day speech on Saturday to propose direct discussions with Pyongyang aimed at replacing the 1953 armistice with a formal peace regime. He also suggested that the talks…
Five years after the Taliban returned to power and the United States pulled its troops out of Afghanistan, Kabul is now asking Washington to come back. But this time, the Taliban does not want American soldiers. It wants something potentially more valuable: American money, diplomatic recognition and access to international markets. Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir…
Six months into the war between Iran and the US-Israel alliance, Tehran is presenting the conflict as a victory, but the claim says more about Iran’s political strategy than it proves about the battlefield. Major General Ahmad Vahidi, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said Iran had defeated what he described as the…
The UK economy is showing signs of slowing, but calling the latest figures an outright economic slump would be misleading. Britain’s GDP grew by 0.4% in the second quarter of 2026, down from 0.6% in the first quarter. That is a slowdown, but it still means the economy expanded and the UK actually recorded the…
At least 13 people have died in the Philippines after nine consecutive days of heavy rain triggered flash floods, landslides and other accidents across the northern part of the country. Eight people were also reported missing, while more than half a million people across 33 provinces had been affected in the initial assessment. But the…
The reported Houthi ground offensive around Mokha and north towards Al-Khawkhah is significant for a reason that goes beyond Yemen’s civil war: control of this coastline could give the Houthis greater leverage over one of the world’s most important maritime corridors. Recent reporting confirms that Houthi attacks on Mokha have intensified, including repeated missile and…
The latest US-Iran confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz is becoming a battle not only over a strategic waterway, but over who gets to define what “control” actually means. President Donald Trump says the United States has “total control” of the Strait, declaring that the American naval presence is a “wall of steel” and suggesting…
