Our kleptocratic rulers are insulated from the effects of the wars they start, Oliver Bullough writes for the Oligarchy newsletter ...

This is going to be a big year for the Financial Action Task Force, the world’s standard-setter on money laundering ...

A strategically important base is the setting for a new version of an old story about colonialism, exile, sovereignty, and the projection of power ...

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been taken down in Tehran, but war continues and the outcome and goals remain obscure ...

In Iran, artificial intelligence is being used to select targets, summarize intelligence and make the ‘kill chain’ ruthlessly ...

Amid omnous threats on both sides, veteran Middle East reporter Jim Muir asks why the U.S. is dragging its feet on Iran ...

Julia E, an 18-year-old influencer from Germany, was hanging out with her family on the Palm Jumeirah beach when she heard a blast and saw a fireball erupt into the sky. She knew tension was mounting ...

Hundreds of journalists are forced into exile each year, from every corner of the world. As authoritarianism and censorship rise, reporters are among the first to feel the pressure — pushed out of ...

There’s a story I often tell when I talk about my new book: a couple of years ago, an adviser to a senior politician here in the UK asked me for some suggestions for policy proposals for tackling ...

Transparency International has published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index and, for once, I think this rather tiresome survey of how likely various countries’ public officials are to be crooked ...

“The impunity of the giants must end,” posted Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez on X. His government has instructed the public prosecutor to “investigate the crimes that X, Meta and TikTok may be ...