Tue 27 January 2026: During the protests that ripped through Iran in January, one person who gained attention was Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi, who lives in a suburb of Washington, D.C., is the son of the late shah of Iran, who ruthlessly ruled the country before being deposed during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Pahlavi emerged during the recent upheaval as a […]
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Fri 23 January 2026: US actions have ended the post-World War II order, analysts say, but how much that ‘order’ applied to the Global South is unclear. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the quiet part out loud at the World Economic Forum: what many call the global rules-based order was either collapsing or had collapsed already. […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: While Western policymakers obsess over centrifuges, sanctions, and proxy militias, they are staring past the Islamic Republic’s greatest existential threat: its own children. Iran is no longer a revolutionary state; it is a terrified, cornered theocracy clinging to power, frightened not of American warships or Israeli jets alone, but of teenagers […]
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Wed 07 January 2026: The Russian leader will seek to benefit from Washington’s intervention but will also worry that he could be next, experts say. A meme has gone viral on Russian social media networks with a quote from President Vladimir Putin, “We don’t give up on our own,” placed next to his photos with […]
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Sun 04 January 2026: No amount of foreign aid can fix what bad governance and political impunity continue to destroy. On June 2 while addressing an audience in the Nelson Mandela Hall at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bill Gates – the world’s second richest person and co-chairman of the Bill & […]
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Sun 04 January 2026: Syria’s new interim government has started the process to rebuild the armed forces, but challenges lie ahead. Syria is still facing numerous challenges a year after the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Among the key priorities for the new government is rebuilding its national army and security forces. For decades, Syria’s […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Soon after the release of the Bollywood film ‘Dhurandar’, which follows the trajectory of an Indian spy operating in the curated landscape of Karachi’s Lyari locality, Instagram reels were filled with the trend ‘Day one as a Spy in Pakistan’. There has rightfully been conversation about the Islamophobic undertone of the […]
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Mon 29 December 2025: As suicide attempts surge and tens of thousands seek psychological help, psychologists say that the Israeli army is breaking under the moral and emotional toll of the Gaza genocide, and those burdens will shape Israeli society for generations. Twenty-six months into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a quieter breakdown is unfolding inside […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: Prices of basic items like food are only expected to grow over the coming months as Iranians get poorer. Tehran, Iran – Iran’s currency has been registering new lows amid ongoing economic turmoil that is also reflected in a planned budget for next year that effectively shrinks public spending. Each United States […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: Fifteen years on, governments have outlawed protest, managed elections, and rewritten constitutions to ensure 2011 never happens again. Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms of government. In extraordinary scenes, millions of protesters […]
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