Both overplayed their hands and wound up in long, inconclusive wars of attrition. Now in its fifth week, the third Gulf war has already gone on longer than Donald Trump predicted at the start. America ...

Their view is that the films are undisguised propaganda—not for the government or even the ruling party but for Narendra Modi himself.

A furore over AI and a novel presages the future of books ...

BRITAIN’S immigration debate has become a frenzied auction. The Labour government, having presided over a precipitous drop in arrivals, plans to make it harder for people to get citizenship. Reform UK ...

Xi Jinping faces a massive leadership reshuffle across China's Communist Party and state apparatus, with hundreds of ...

All bar one. As its tankers keep plying the strait (see chart 1), Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before American and Israeli bombs started falling on ...

I N A WAR in which tens of thousands of bombs have been dropped across the Middle East, killing perhaps thousands of ...

I N A WAR in which tens of thousands of bombs have been dropped across the Middle East, killing perhaps thousands of ...

China's 15th five-year plan targets futuristic technologies including flying taxis, fusion power, quantum computing and brain ...

MOSES brought ten commandments down from Mount Sinai. If only the UN’s proposed list of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were as concise. The SDGs are supposed to set out how to improve the lives ...

Iran has been hit thousands of times and struck back against neighbours with drones and missiles. The conflict now spans at ...

Iran’s conflict with Iraq in the 1980s provides valuable lessons for today, writes Richard Cockett, a senior editor ...