Although US strikes have significantly damaged Iran’s conventional military assets, these smaller vessels continue to pose a threat to global oil markets. Iran’s so-called “mosquito fleet”, thousands of small, fast-attack boats paired with drones and coastal missiles, is proving it can still rattle global oil markets even after US strikes …

The forty-day war between the US and Israel and Iran has been paused. Islamabad and Geneva are potential platforms for US-Iranian talks. Will the shaky ceasefire bring lasting peace? US changes tactics in Iran confrontation The second anti-Iranian war was a consequence of Israel’s provocative policy. Despite significant losses in …

Iran announced a shaky reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping yesterday, as 49 countries met in an emergency summit in Paris to plan a naval intervention into the waterway. US President Donald Trump responded, however, by refusing to lift the US naval blockade of Iranian ports. The …

Le vendredi 17 avril 2026, le président Donald Trump a publié une série de messages optimistes sur Truth Social (et évoqués dans des interviews) présentant la guerre Iran-Amérique comme étant en grande partie terminée ou sur le point de l’être. Ses affirmations portaient principalement sur la réouverture du détroit d’Ormuz, …

Donald Trump’s lashing out at NATO allies over the Iran War is as dangerous as it is unjustified.In the midst of US involvement in a war against Iran, President Donald Trump has decided to double down on previous public expressions of disregard and distrust toward NATO. Trump has threatened to …

Russia’s strained wartime budget and the prospect of Ramzan Kadyrov’s succession make Chechnya’s future in Russia an open question. As if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t have enough problems. The war with Ukraine is going badly, the consumer economy is in recession, and Ukrainian drones are targeting Russia’s capacity to …

The US-backed, Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capitulated to the Syrian government in a ceasefire agreement on January 18.[1] The government compelled the SDF to agree after a combination of government operations and tribal uprisings caused the SDF to withdraw from nearly half of its territory and most of the …

Key Takeaways: Hezbollah’s changed military and political position in Lebanon means that it poses a different threat to Israel from the one it did before the October 7 War, and that any Hezbollah intervention would likely involve a new strategy using new, longer range and low-cost weapons. Israel’s 2024 campaign …

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute are publishing daily updates to provide analysis on the war with Iran. The updates focus on US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran and the Axis of Resistance’s response to …

Toplines Officials in Russian regions that the Kremlin has historically sought to shield from the effects of the war in Ukraine are beginning to acknowledge the impacts of Ukrainian long-range drone strikes in the Russian rear. Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko told the Leningrad Oblast regional assembly on April 15 …