He named a wartime commander, Ali Larijani, to run affairs in his absence. And he readied his followers for what was to come. In his final address on February 16th he invoked the defining tragedy of ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Donald Trump said America would probably not need to put boots on the ground Iran, in comments to NewsNation.

Hello. It so happens that the 150th edition of The War Room falls at a time of great geopolitical uncertainty. To mark the ...

Emirates and Qatar are the world’s biggest international airlines measured by available seat-kilometres (total capacity ...

For nuclear boosters, it shows that atomic energy still has a future in Japan. For critics, it marks the unwelcome revival of ...

At issue is the question of whether the best place to build data centres for artificial intelligence is not on Earth—but in ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

It is a cold calculus, borne of the recognition China has vast economic interests in the Middle East but scant ability or ...

Iran has not held back. It has already killed six American troops and came close to inflicting casualties on British forces stationed in Bahrain, as well as killing 11 civilians in Israel and five in ...

And can this really be the same Donald Trump who used to ridicule the regime-changing, democracy-building visions of “neocons ...

Israel said Naim Qassem, Hizbullah’s leader, was among the targets, as were the group’s intelligence chief and Muhammad Raad, an MP. At least 52 people were killed, according to Lebanon’s health ...

Now, 250 years on, a monument to America’s “first amphibious assault” is about to be inaugurated at the entrance to the fishing pier in Pompano Beach, Florida. It is an initiative of the Florida ...