In late 2025, Washington crossed a doctrinal threshold. Sanctions—long treated as financial abstractions—are now being ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has announced a fuel price hike for the first time since 2019, with the increase coming at a ...

How the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy elevates Azerbaijan as a pivotal partner in the South Caucasus for countering ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi spoke briefly with her family by phone Sunday evening and shared information about ...

Iran’s rial slid further Monday to a new record low of more than 1.3 million to the U.S. dollar, deepening the currency’s ...

US sanctions have limited immediate impact on China's oil. Imports of discounted Venezuelan crude expected to rise despite ...

Saudi Arabia breaks its own record with 340 executions in 2025 as authorities continue a strict war on drugs and capital ...

A regional meeting hosted by Iran on Afghanistan underscored calls for lifting sanctions and strengthening regional ...

The U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker marks a sharp escalation in sanctions enforcement, increasing risks for buyers.

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is, in many ways, unlike any in U.S. history. Most strategy documents of this kind articulate the threats that the United States’ adversaries ...

The U.S. seizure of the tanker Skipper earlier this week has been widely interpreted as a significant escalation by the Trump administration against the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.