Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Death Threat: संभावित हत्या के खतरे को देखते हुए ईरान के सर्वोच्च नेता आयतुल्ला अली खामेनेई अब अपने कमांडरों से सीधे बात करने के बजाय एक भरोसेमंद सहयोगी के जरिए संवाद करते हैं और इलेक्ट्रॉनिक संचार को निलंबित कर दिया गया है, जिससे उन्हें ट्रैक करना मुश्किल हो जाए. यह जानकारी उन…
Top officials from the European Union and Britain are gathering in London on Monday to announce a freshly struck deal meant to tighten their trade and defense relationships, as the two allies pivot toward a post-Brexit future. The summit has been billed as a major reset of relations, and it is being especially closely watched…
Russian forces have been beefing up bases and building military infrastructure near the Finnish border, according to recent satellite imagery, in moves that could reveal their strategy for what happens after the Ukraine war. The imagery, confirmed by NATO officials, shows row after row of new tents; new warehouses that can store military vehicles; renovations…
Even as the United States and China take steps to rein in their trade war, Beijing is preparing for broader rivalry with Washington to continue. For China, that means its search for economic and diplomatic opportunities across Asia is unlikely to soften its tough line on its regional territorial claims and military competition. Both sides…
Some Israeli military officials have privately concluded that Palestinians in Gaza face widespread starvation unless aid deliveries are restored within weeks, according to three Israeli defense officials familiar with conditions in the enclave. For months, Israel has maintained that its blockade on food and fuel to Gaza did not pose a major threat to civilian…
Israeli fighter jets bombarded the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Tuesday evening in an attempt to kill Mohammad Sinwar, one of Hamas’s remaining top leaders in the enclave, according to two Israeli military officials. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Around the same time,…
On a wet Wednesday morning in April, Ashley Holroyd had a steady but slow stream of customers into his coffee shop in Barrow-in-Furness, an industrial town in northwest England. The cafe, Coffee D’Ash, had been open for only about six months, and it barely filled the cavernous space. Despite the empty storefronts on the same…
The spark for the recent conflict between India and Pakistan was a terrorist attack on the Indian side of Kashmir on April 22. India pointed to its neighbor’s history of sheltering terrorist groups and initiated a cross-border military campaign. It quickly escalated into four nights of clashes in which the two countries hit deeper into…
The fragile truce between India and Pakistan appeared to be largely holding on its first full day after some initial skirmishing, as both countries turned on Sunday to making the case that they had come out on top in the four-day conflict. President Trump announced on Saturday that the two sides had agreed to a…
India and Pakistan have seemingly pulled back from the brink again. But so much was new about the nuclear-armed enemies’ chaotic four-day clash, and so many of the underlying accelerants remain volatile, that there’s little to suggest that the truce represents any return to old patterns of restraint. A new generation of military technology fueled…