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.
Healthcare workers who excavated colleagues from mass graves say Israel's systematic targeting of medical staff has normalized attacks on hospitals globally, from Lebanon to Sudan.
Al Jazeera investigation documents US and Israeli strikes on more than 75 Iranian police facilities in residential areas, revealing a systematic campaign targeting internal security infrastructure rather than military sites.
El Salvador's state of emergency has detained 88,000 people without charges over four years, leaving thousands of children without parents as mass arrests eliminate due process under a policy internationally praised as 'tough on crime.'
The Pentagon's bombing campaign strengthened the Iranian regime while devastating the civilian population, creating a humanitarian crisis that traps 85 million people between authoritarian rule and economic isolation.
A Kabul airstrike that killed over 100 civilians forced a truce between Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban government. U.S. media barely covered the bombing — revealing how quickly Afghanistan vanished from American news after withdrawal.