How Beijing Is Exploiting Israel’s War to Win Over the Global South Over the past year, as Western diplomats shuttled frantically from one end of the world to the other in their struggle to contain an ever-growing succession of wars, crises, and other calamities—from Ukraine to Darfur to Nagorno-Karabakh to …

How the War in Ukraine Will Overheat the Russian Economy After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, its economy seemed certain to suffer as a coalition of Ukraine’s allies, led by the United States, imposed an unprecedented program of sanctions. Many figures, including U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and EU Sanctions …

Latest Developments An airstrike killed a prominent Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon, the terrorist group said on January 8. Hezbollah identified the commander as Wissam Hassan al-Tawil, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, an elite unit focused on cross-border attacks. Tawil and another member of Hezbollah were reportedly killed …