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Shamim Mafi, a US permanent resident living in California, was arrested for allegedly brokering millions of dollars in Iranian weapons sales to conflict zones like Sudan. Prosecutors say she worked ...

History is replete with great rulers and great scholars, but it is rare that one individual should combine both characteristics. I want to tell you about one of them, who I consider to be the greatest ...

Western imperialism persists through economic sanctions, military interventions and control over global resources, as seen in Venezuela and Iran. Nations with strong ideological commitment, like Iran, ...

Despite boycotts and violence, Myanmar held its first nationwide polls since the 2021 coup, consolidating power for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party alongside guaranteed army ...

In October 2025, Le Monde featured a column by its San Francisco correspondent, Corine Lesnes, in which she expressed her doubts about the sanity of a prominent figure in finance and a Silicon Valley ...

China condemned the operation that started the Iran War but refrained from direct involvement, revealing limits in its strategic partnerships. The disruption of Iran’s oil exports to China highlights ...

The US and Israel started the war in Iran without coordinated objectives. How does such a war end? Between chaos and democracy — the former with a much higher probability than the latter — myriad ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

In January 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States concluded oral arguments in two closely watched cases — West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Hecox v. Little — with judgments expected in the coming ...

Imagine a distant past, thousands of years ago, when ancient tribes roamed the vast lands of Eurasia. Among these tribes were the enigmatic Proto-Indo-Europeans, whose language, now known as ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...