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 ...

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

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

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 ...

I’ve been diving into the world of aristocratic conspiracy theories pushed by the suspects rounded up by police in Germany this week for plotting a bizarre coup. They’re part of the right-wing ...

Analyzing how Russia’s war in Ukraine impacts everyone, everywhere Japan seeks NATO help to counter China 12 Jun, 2023 ...

“I once had an idea in the back of my mind to leave this place and go abroad,” Besmir Billa told me earlier this year as we sipped tea in the town of Kukes, not far from Albania’s Accursed Mountains. ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...