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Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani will visit Tehran today to relaunch diplomacy with Iran. [...]
The second Trump administration is teaching states an important lesson about their data: how powerful it is. In recent weeks, the federal government attempted to obtain the
contents of a centralized, state-led database of Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) information. [...]
More than 60 international law experts and Women Human Rights Defenders recently issued the “International Declaration on Gender Apartheid and Its Destructive Consequences”
to mark the fifth anniversary of Afghan women’s resistance to the Taliban since their second takeover of Afghanistan. [...]
The clashes that erupted before dawn on Aug. 1 near Shererina in northern Ethiopia have been described as one of the most serious breaches of the Cessation of Hostilities
Agreement (also referred to as the Pretoria Agreement) that ended the two-year long conflict between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation [...]
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told several of his foreign counterparts in recent days that “for the time being” the United States is not expected to [...]
As Iceland goes to the polls Aug. 29 for a referendum on whether to restart talks to join the European Union, geopolitics loom large. While the real challenges in actual accession
talks are likely to revolve around fisheries and agriculture, the context of an international order in flux — even turmoil — is clear. [...]
In recent remarks to graduates at the National Defense University, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine drew a sharp distinction between two categories
of advice in military operations: “can we do this?” versus “should we do this?” He stated that the first category is appropriate for military leaders to address, [...]
As the civil war in Sudan rages on, civilians sheltering in the city of El Obeid are facing the threat of an imminent ground offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the
paramilitary group that has been fighting the Sudanese military since 2023. Fighting in the North Kordofan region has escalated in recent months, leading the United [...]
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent yesterday announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” which aims to isolate Iran by threatening other countries and companies [...]
The following timeline chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern
Pacific. The timeline, which focuses primarily on vessel strikes, relevant statements from administration officials, and congressional actions, will be updated on [...]