Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it ...

As the US launches its long anticipated strikes against Iran, I find my thoughts turning to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Despite mass protests against it, the invasion was popular at the time (with 54 ...

Iran’s retaliatory attacks on US assets in the region continue for a second day as fears of a wider conflict rise.

In 2023, French special operations troops came under attack from ISIS fighters near Hawija, Iraq. Guardsmen boarded a CH-47 ...

Leadership messaging points to internal discipline and network survival rather than renewed territorial expansion.

Iraq taught us that regime change without a political plan produces chaos. Libya taught us that air power without ground commitment produces a failed state. Iran is all of these lessons combined, at ...

Emerging from the chaos of post-invasion Iraq, ISIS transformed from a splinter extremist network into a self-declared caliphate that controlled territory the size of a nation and ruled millions ...

Security analyst and International relations expert, Prof Vladimir Antwi-Danso, has warned that the escalating conflict involving Iran could ignite a fresh wave of global terrorism and destabilise the ...

Because power vacuums cannot be targeted by precision munitions or mapped by satellite imagery, the United States' strategic thinking systematically underestimates the danger they pose.

Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian terrorist organizations issued statements mourning the deaths of ...

Iran possesses one of the largest stockpiles of ballistic missiles in the Middle East, with weapon systems of varying ranges ...

Israel and the United States launched an attack on Iran on Saturday, plunging the Middle East into a renewed military ...