Key Takeaways: The United States and Israel have launched a strike campaign into Iran in order to topple the Islamic Republic, among other objectives. US President Donald Trump announced the launch of combat operations in a video statement and called on the Iranian people to rise up against their regime.Israel …

President Trump’s regime-change war in Iran is already remaking the Middle East — and will have global ramifications whose scale and severity we can barely comprehend in these early hours. The Iran war also marks a similarly consequential turn at the level of ideas inside the Trump administration and the …

In early February, the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms between the United States and Russia (START-3) expired, and no new agreement was concluded. START-3 was the last obstacle to a possible nuclear race between Moscow and Washington. However, at the moment, Russia …

The joint Israeli-American military operation against Iranian targets is in its early stages, but it comes in a context related to the developments of the war in the Gaza Strip, in light of the unprecedented escalation of tension between Israel and Iran since they exchanged direct attacks in April 2024 …

Iran has announced transition plans following the killing of supreme leader Ali Khamenei in a joint Israeli-US attack of unprecedented scale. Also playing a central role is Iran’s top security chief Ali Larijani. Here is a look at the key figures overseeing the transition:The president President Masoud Pezeshkian, 71, is …

For decades, Syria’s unions have been under the control of political parties and the state, and have not developed into independent institutions capable of defending their members’ rights. Even so, they remain a pivotal part of life for millions of Syrians. In principle, these bodies are meant to pursue members’ …

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah vowed Sunday to confront the United States and Israel over their strikes on the group’s key backer Iran. “We will undertake our duty of confronting the aggression,” Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a statement, adding that his movement would not leave “the field of honour …

Then what? This is the question that theoreticians of war from Sun Tzu to Jomini and Liddell-Hart and passing by Clausewitz advise leaders to ask before they order the firing of the first shot in a war. Thus, one may suggest that US President Donald Trump should also ask that …

How fitting that the US and Israel finally retaliated against 47 years of aggression by the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the week of the Biblical Purim Festival. Then, roughly 2,300 years ago, Haman, viceroy to Persia’s King Ahasuerus, threw a lot (“pur”, plural “purim”) to determine …

Iran’s clerical regime now faces the prospect of trying to find a successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his killing in joint US-Israeli strikes. The veteran leader, who ruled with an iron fist for nearly four decades, does not have an officially declared heir. Instead, an elected body …