Geopolitics
Catering Truck, Decoy Jet: How Trump Slipped Out of Turkey
President Donald Trump left Turkey last month hidden inside an airport catering truck, then flew on to Britain aboard a third...
US Destroyer Burns Four Drones Out of the Sky With a Laser
A US Navy destroyer used a ship-mounted laser to destroy four drones during an at-sea demonstration, Lockheed Martin has confirmed —...
Royal Navy Pulls Drone Boats Offline After Cameras Caught Phoning China
Cameras fitted to Royal Navy surveillance drones were secretly sending signals to a device in China, forcing the Ministry of Defence...
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign a Defence Pact — Then a Houthi Drone Hits a Saudi Refinery
Yemen's Houthis struck Saudi Aramco's Jizan refinery with a drone at dawn on Sunday, 9 August. The attack landed just two...
Iran, Ukraine and Russia: When the Caspian Caught Fire
On 25 July, a drone found the bridge of a 90-metre cargo ship in the Volga Delta. The vessel burned. Nima...
Cairo says no: why Egypt refused to sign the Mecca defence pact
Egypt declined an invitation to join a new defence pact, Middle East Eye and Egypt's Mada Masr reported. Turkey, Saudi...
Colombia searches for 2,700 missing as quake toll passes 130
At least 132 people died and about 570 were injured when a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday. More...
Spain turns the tables on Rome as passport checks begin at its airports
New Delhi: Spanish police began checking passports on flights and ferries arriving from Italy at midnight on Saturday, opening a new...
Cheap until it isn’t: how Beijing learned to set the price of the modern world
In 1995 a consortium of Chinese state-linked firms, working alongside an American investment house, bought Magnequench, the General Motors offshoot that...
A borrowed satellite and 400 missiles: how Beijing and Moscow are keeping Iran in the fight
New Delhi: China has lent Iran one of its military satellites and is preparing to ship hundreds of shoulder-fired air-defence...
Musk blocks Ukraine’s Starlink access for deep strikes inside Russia — what it means
New Delhi: Elon Musk has refused to let Ukraine use his Starlink satellite network to guide drones striking targets deep...
Bombs, leaks and an off-ramp: Trump’s top general wants a way out of the Iran war
New Delhi: General Dan Caine, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has spent recent weeks quietly telling...
