Trump’s repost of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet declaring his country’s willingness to host talks between the US and Iran lends credence to reports about Islamabad’s mediation. Asim Munir is Trump’s “favorite Field Marshal” in his own words...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry disclosed last week that their country’s Special Envoy on Afghan Affairs “has been shuttling between Afghanistan and Pakistan” in an attempt to mediate a ceasefire in their nearly month-long war. This was followed by Russia’s...
Last month, “Lavrov Soberly Acknowledged The Challenges Posed By Trump 2.0”, and now he’s warning about its plans for global dominance in a recent interview. In his words, “ is prepared to defend wellbeing by whatever it takes...
Trump announced on Monday that he extended to Friday his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz under pain of destroying its energy infrastructure, which was supposed to expire that same day, due to supposedly fruitful talks...
Dmitry Trenin is one of Russia’s top experts and used to be considered a Westernizer among many prior to having a change of heart as a result of everything that happened since the special operation began. He’s an interesting...
Israel announced on Friday that it bombed Syrian military positions “in response to the events yesterday, in which Druze civilians were attacked in the Sweida area.” This reinforces its de facto buffer zone by keeping Syria’s southern periphery outside...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Congress last week that “Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan have been researching and developing an array of novel, advanced, or traditional missile delivery systems with nuclear and conventional payloads that...
The Economist argued over the weekend that “Donald Trump has four bad options for the war in Iran”: talk, leave, continue, or escalate. In the order that they were mentioned, the drawbacks to talking are that the Iranians distrust...
Dimitri Simes is definitely one of the world’s top experts on Russian-US relations. He used to advise Richard Nixon and even ran his institution for nearly three decades, advised Trump in 2016, hosts a leading show on Russian TV,...
Israel claimed to have destroyed several vessels from Iran’s Caspian Fleet last week despite them having no role in the Third Gulf War nor ability to threaten Israel. Speculation has accordingly swirled about what exactly Israel aimed to achieve...
