Iran: The protests, the blackout and the narrative war
Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran. Plus, Cory Doctorow on the AI hype machine....
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Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran. Plus, Cory Doctorow on the AI hype machine....
Stars and Stripes newspaper Ullstein bild via Getty Images The military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, is facing new pressure from the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the o...
Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out...
Joshua Landis, the director of the University of Oklahoma's Centre for Middle East Studies, talks about how the Syrian military's advance across the country's north aims to end years of autonomy won b...
One of the smallest members of the EU now holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. The Cypriot government wants to promote European autonomy over the next six months....
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman have led efforts to talk President Donald Trump out of a US attack on Iran, according to news reports. Turkey is also concerned about a collapse of central authority in Ir...
According to Japanese and Philippine officials, the new pact would assist both countries in responding to natural catastrophes, a shared concern, and taking part in UN peacekeeping missions, which wil...
Donald Trump's second presidential term has seen a rapid rise in the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. But who are these people, and where is the US government finding them?...
Germany is cutting its development aid budget. But as development policy is also part of national security, alongside diplomacy and defense, these budget cuts may cause problems....
As the Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade accusations of breaking a troop withdrawal agreement in the country's north, FRANCE 24 Damascus correspondent Dana Alboz breaks down how the Syrian mili...
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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas held talks in Berlin with German defence minister Boris Pistorius as challenges to the future of European and global security continue to mount....
Taiwan has begun co-producing 155mm (6.1-inch) artillery shells with the US, as the island moves to strengthen wartime ammunition resilience amid Beijing’s escalating military pressure and concern ove...
Iran's communication blackout is "more serious" than ever before. Restrictions may last beyond the current protests, according to one expert....
Semiconductor levies are designed to enact a deal Donald Trump cut with chipmakers to allow shipments of AI processors...
The escalating conflict between the White House and the US central bank could have far-reaching consequences...
America for Americans: That was James Monroe's message to European colonial powers in 1823, to respect the independence of new nations of the Americas. Trump is reinterpreting this doctrine....
Since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December 2024, one of the huge challenges the new government has faced is that of division. Syrian society is made up of different sectarian and ethnic groups -- t...
French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency defense council meeting at the Élysée Palace on Thursday to discuss Greenland and Iran - among other issues. He then visited a military base in the s...