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Iran International reports hundreds of medicines in short supply. A pharmacists' association official says alternative import routes could triple drug costs, with currency shortages...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump has been discussing with aides whether to declare the Iran war over and begin bringing American forces home,...
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Bessent says Washington will announce a bank sanction this week and another the week after, then widen Operation Economic Outcast to airlines and digital...
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Venezuela confirms the agreement covers seventeen fields over at least twenty-five years. The contracts are not public, analysts are questioning what control means, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
They point to Operation Mayflower, the week-long bombing pause Johnson ordered as an inducement to talks. Hanoi did not come to the table, the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Persian Gulf Star Oil has acknowledged testing gasoline containing methanol, saying the concentration meets Iranian standards. Separately, officials in Rafsanjan confirmed a case of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Kuwait's air defenses engaged Iranian drones and missiles, and a drone hit a residential building in Sabah Al Salem. Firefighters put out the blaze,...
Ukraine War
At the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin said there is a chance of ending the war and that the U.S., China, and others are open...
Ukraine War
A day after warning airlines and insurers, Zelensky says the first carriers have begun suspending flights to Russian airports, calling it the logical response...
Ukraine War
Ukraine has formally notified ICAO that Russian airspace is not safe for civilian aviation and asked member states to bar their carriers, and ICAO...
The Treaty
Trump asked on Truth Social whether the Strait of Hormuz should be renamed the Trump Strait now that he says it is under U.S....
The Treaty
Pezeshkian says Iran will return to the June memorandum the moment Washington does. Hardliners in Tehran want the opposite — to keep the war...
The Treaty
Stephen Silver reports that Iran's president offered at the SCO summit to reciprocate immediately if Washington returns to June's memorandum, while Trump mused about...
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Pezeshkian challenged his own hardliners, saying that claiming sanctions have no effect is not consistent with the facts and that missiles and bombs are...
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Sirens sounded across Kuwait before dawn as its air defenses confronted Iranian missile and drone attacks, and Iran claims it damaged satellite systems and...
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Ukraine hit Russian oil refineries eighteen times in August, including one of Russia's five largest, and a July strike destroyed more than four-fifths of...
North Korea Talk
Georgia Gilholy reports on Lavrov's world-order message to Pyongyang, Zelensky's claim that up to fifty thousand more troops could follow the Kursk deployment, Reuters-reported...
North Korea Talk
Trump ordered joint exercises with South Korea scaled back and praised Kim Jong-Un, drawing sharp criticism as Seoul stays muted.
North Korea Talk
Roughly 9,500 are already there. Reuters reports North Korean supplies have at times covered around half of Russia's frontline munitions, and the next contingent...
Dollars and Sense
One of the critical elements of modern warfare, reinforced by the war in Ukraine, is the importance of air superiority and the need to...
North Korea Talk
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. could intercept incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) using advanced and developing missile defense technologies. -Ground-based interceptors in Alaska...