Israel demonstrated exceptional intelligence collection. If Iran can hide its new air defence systems, it can do better next time

If we follow the 24-hour satellite television or the relentless barrage of social media posts, we would come to the conclusion that the world today is a violent, brutal place. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,

If we’re fortunate, that will yield academic treatises with titles like “The Empire Tested: America and the World, 2021-2030.” If we’re unlucky — meaning, basically, if the United States and China eventually fall into a ruinous war — then the struggles in Ukraine and the Middle East will be retroactively assigned to histories of World War III.

BRUSSELS — Europe's top diplomats are assessing a new deal with Israel to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to Kaja Kallas, the European Union's foreign policy chief.

US President Donald Trump’s decision to send weapons to Ukraine to help its defence against Russia has some in the Make America Great Again (Maga) movement  irate. Here’s what some leading figures in

Footage of a blast in Ukraine has been falsely presented online as showing a scene from the 12-day war between Iran and Israel. The video matches visuals of a neighbourhood in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

To equate Israel’s war with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is to misunderstand both conflicts. One is about terror and survival. The other is about power and dominance. One side targets civilians; the other defends them. Israel is not fighting for conquest. It is fighting for its very existence.

BUSRA AL-HARIR, Syria (AP) — Israel’s army said Monday it has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clashed with Druze militias.

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter the public consciousness again.

Israel’s strikes on Iran, the historian Niall Ferguson posted, are “a decisive victory for the West.” Just as the Six-Day War largely removed the threat of Israel being overrun, the 12-day war largely removed the threat of Israel being annihilated by an Iranian nuclear attack.