Gathering in Tehran. On the sidelines of the funeral of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, representatives of the so-called axis of resistance met in Tehran....
Deepening cracks. The Russian government issued a decree instructing state-owned energy firm Gazprom not to pay dividends for 2023. Earlier this month, Gazprom reported...
Backlash from Beijing. China’s Ministry of Commerce added three U.S. companies to its list of “unreliable entities” for selling arms to Taiwan. Boeing and...
Putin in China. Chinese President Xi Jinping held informal talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Thursday. At the meeting, Xi said...
No limits. China and Russia will create the financial infrastructure to sanction-proof payments between their countries, expand the scale of joint military exercises and...
Keeping peace. The United States is calling on Arab states to join a postwar peacekeeping force in Gaza, according to the Financial Times. Washington...
Israel and Turkey. Israel began returning its diplomats to Turkey earlier this month after withdrawing them last year for “security reasons,” the Middle East...
Iranian plans. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Yemeni Houthi rebels reportedly plan to attack military bases in Eritrea that supply the U.S....
Kharkiv assault. Russian forces launched a large assault on the border areas of the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine on Friday. The Ukrainian Defense...
Iranian allies. The commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, reportedly visited Lebanon and Iraq in recent weeks. According to local reports, he was...
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