Who profits from Sudan's conflict — and why voluntary frameworks, veto power, and supply chain opacity are features of the system, not failures. Part 3 of a six-part investigation.
A New York Times investigation by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals that Trump was the most hawkish voice in his own administration on Iran — overruling his CIA director, his vice president, and the Joint Chiefs to launch a war on a gut feeling.
Nearly 20,000 mariners are stranded in the Persian Gulf as Iran asserts toll control over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's demand they stop reveals Washington has no enforcement mechanism short of resuming a war it already agreed to pause.
The UN reports that drone strikes in Sudan have killed more than 200 people in just over a week, marking a deadly escalation in a conflict that has displaced 10 million people while receiving minimal international attention.
The WHO suspended all medical evacuations from Gaza after Israeli troops killed a Palestinian contractor driving an approved evacuation route. With an estimated 20,000 patients awaiting transfer, the suspension is not a pause — it is a collapse of the last medical lifeline out of the territory.
The UN Security Council voted 11-2 on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. China and Russia vetoed. While Trump threatens to destroy a civilization, China offers itself as the stable alternative.
JD Vance flew to Budapest three days before Hungary's election to endorse Viktor Orbán and attack the EU. The Trump administration just told the world it will intervene in allied democracies — openly, on camera — and it will back the authoritarians.
How gold extracted from RSF-controlled mines in Darfur flows through Dubai's refineries and into global markets — its violent origins erased at the molecular level. Part 2 of a six-part investigation.
Keir Starmer's push for closer EU ties is being sold as pragmatic statecraft. It is also the most direct public rejection of American war leadership from a major US ally since the conflict began.
Inside the intersection of Sudan's humanitarian catastrophe, global mineral supply chains, and the systems that sustain them. Part 1 of a six-part investigation.
A senior Pentagon official confirmed that artificial intelligence systems selected the first 1,000 targets struck in Iran, marking the first time the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged AI-driven target selection at this scale.
A new Doctors Without Borders report documents sexual violence as the 'defining feature' of Sudan's civil war, with survivors detailing systematic assault as a weapon of territorial control.
An F-15E Strike Eagle shot down over Iran is the first U.S. aircraft lost to enemy fire in the current conflict — and direct evidence that the administration's public case for this war was built on a false premise about Iranian military capability.
Trump's threat to bomb Iran's desalination plants isn't a gray area — it's explicitly prohibited under the Geneva Conventions. The administration is treating a war crime as a pressure tactic, and the paper trail showing this was always the plan goes back nearly a decade.
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk demands U.S. investigation into a military strike that killed 168 people, mostly children, at an Iranian school, calling the attack 'viscerally horrifying.'
Sweden's military chief warns that Middle East conflicts are generating billions in extra oil revenue for Russia, directly funding its Ukraine invasion as energy prices surge.