The United States and interim authorities in Venezuela have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations, the US State Department said in a statement on Thursday, adding that it was focused on creating conditions for a peaceful…
The Kurds are one of the biggest ethnic groups in the world without their own nation. Numbering between 30 and 40 million worldwide, most live amid the peaks and valleys straddling the borders of Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.
Though they…
News that a United States submarine had torpedoed and sunk the Iranian warship IRIS Dena about 40 nautical miles off Sri Lanka this week took many observers by surprise. An attack like this so far from the Persian Gulf – and in a key trade…
New Delhi, India — Dressed in a blue Navy uniform and sleek sunglasses, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in late October, addressed a gathering of the country’s sea warriors.
He listed out the strategic significance of the Indian Ocean —…
Until June 2023, the Israeli government’s Iran portfolio in terms of offensive action — mostly cloak-and-dagger operations, assassinations of key nuclear figures and the aspiration to use long-range weaponry — was in the…
One beneficiary of the chaos in the Persian Gulf appears to be Russia, since the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, just announced that the US has issued a…