Five years after Kabul fell, the Taliban have proved durable — but the discipline that won the war is hollowing out the state ...

ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...

Von der Leyen proposed Canada as the EU's first associate member. The status has no legal basis, and all three routes to creating one carry costs.

Houthis seize Mocha and Perim, tightening the Bab al-Mandab as Saudi oil reroutes; Canada copies Ukraine's drone playbook; ...

Japan has turned JS Kaga into an F-35B carrier and is converting Izumo. What the change does for deterrence, the US alliance, ...

Rassvet, Russia’s replacement for the Starlink service SpaceX cut off, was reported failing in orbit. Its second batch was actually ahead of its first at the same age: 365.1 km against 313.5 km.

Putin’s visit to Iturup underscores how fundamentally Japan–Russia relations have changed since the outbreak of the war in ...

The resilience of Iran’s economy is not an anomaly of internal fortitude, but a direct reflection of Beijing’s willingness to act as its ultimate economic guarantor.

CENTO's failure shows why the US, Japan, and South Korea need contingency plans, mission-specific drills, and direct links, ...

Norway's defence minister says NATO doesn't lose Russian submarines. NATO's own spokesman is more cautious. Two cut cables are still unattributed.

Beneath AI and autonomy lies a second contest: whose standards decide when an allied machine may act, and when its authority ...

Stablecoins, Monero payments, and state-backed CBDCs are tools of statecraft. How tech firms became players in the political economy of digital money.