Messaging surrounding Russia’s latest failed test launch of its RS-28 “Sarmat” suggests that this ‘peerless’ next-generation ...

The Syrian state could have collapsed as early as 2015. It held out for another nine years thanks to Russian military ...

A small airport has been operating outside of the purview of the Indonesian state since 2019, raising thorny questions about ...

This week we cover missile deployments near Taiwan, a brewing water crisis in Europe along with a far more advanced one in ...

Copper now sits at the center of a fast-tightening web of electrification, digital infrastructure, and geopolitical tension.

Russia’s 9M730 Burevestnik is being touted as a technological breakthrough, but the technical details don’t add up.

In a previous essay, I argued that the Islamic Republic, unlike most of its Arab neighbors, did not emerge from the cartographic fantasies of Sykes–Picot, but from a far deeper historical and cultural ...

The Sudan civil war has evolved into one of the most strategically consequential conflicts in the Red Sea corridor. What began in 2023 as a contest for power between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) ...

Maps often command attention stubbornly. The long, watery seam between Australia and Indonesia is more than just geography; it records shared risks, livelihoods, and an expanding list of shared ...

On 30 September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich proclaiming “Peace for our time.” London applauded. People wanted to believe that language could buy safety. The ...