Facing possible defeat, and a return to his corruption trial without power to shield him, Netanyahu wants Trump's public backing ahead of Israel's election. Trump, frustrated over Gaza and Iran, is in no hurry to give it.
With an October election looming, Netanyahu says Israel won't leave Gaza until Hamas surrenders 'all weaponry,' rejecting a plan Hamas still supports, as parallel U.S. standoffs with Iran and a widening Saudi-Houthi conflict leave every Middle East deal stuck.
Moscow bombarded Zaporizhzhia with North Korean ballistic missiles while Kyiv hit a Russian naval base nearly 200 miles behind the front line, as both sides push the war beyond its deadlocked trenches and Putin warns Europe over shadow-fleet seizures.
Settlers surrounded and cut off power to Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra, trapping an American citizen's family inside and drawing a rare 'terrorists' rebuke from the U.S. ambassador before Israeli forces moved in to dismantle the outposts.
Hours into the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise, Trump ordered it scaled back, citing Seoul's refusal to join the Iran war and his rapport with Kim Jong Un, a reversal that reframes decades of U.S. alliance messaging on the Korean Peninsula.
Days after Moscow warned Britain would 'pay a higher price' for arming Kyiv with long-range drones, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged the UK's support for Ukraine is '100 percent' and unchanged.
After absorbing thousands of Iranian missile and drone attacks and years of quiet economic ties, the UAE halted all trade and financial transactions with Tehran, a sharp escalation that landed hours after a call between Trump and the UAE's president.
A review of Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian's A Sixth of Humanity traces India's path from postwar stagnation to a top-five economy, and argues the fiscal and education choices that caused decades of poverty are still driving this year's youth unrest.
Five years after retaking Kabul, the Taliban have held on through repression, a resilient economy, and quiet diplomatic acceptance, but a new armed resistance movement, a resurgent IS-K, and rising tension with Pakistan are testing that stability.
Six months into the conflict, the U.S. military has shown overwhelming technical dominance over Iran but has not secured any of the political outcomes it set out to achieve, according to a new Foreign Policy analysis.
A new PwC analysis argues that Ankara's shift toward outcome-based defense contracts only solves half the problem, and that NATO's credibility now depends on whole-of-society resilience it has yet to fund or coordinate.
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