He went big. On Saturday morning, US and Israeli forces unleashed Operation Epic Fury, what US President Donald Trump called “a massive and ongoing” campaign against Iran. He called on the Iranian people to overthrow the regime once the fighting is done. Iran responded quickly by attacking Israel and US bases in the region. Below, our experts assess the unfolding war and where it goes from here.
Trump warned countries against reneging on their deals with the US, and even if he can’t legally reimpose his threatened 25% punitive tariff on India if it defiantly reverses its trend of reducing Russian oil imports, he might still resume the US’ containment of it through Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity.
For decades, Iran has targeted and killed Americans and US allies. Its proxies took hostages. It attacked ships in the Gulf of Oman. Now, America is responding.
US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US had begun major combat operations against Iran yesterday was different from his comments in the past about Tehran.
Young people in Palestine are accused of being ignorant of their past. But the truth may be that they are more aware of their present than anyone else.
Palestinian youth are a foreign country; they do things differently there—not because they reject politics, but because the political institutions around them no longer function. But the implications for diplomacy and politics have not sunk in, especially regarding the structures that have upheld Palestinian political life over many decades but are now in severe decay.
Convergence cyclique, influence géopolitique et raisons pour lesquelles l’énergie redevient la principale couverture du marché.
La restructuration que nos modèles avaient correctement anticipée pour le premier trimestre 2026 traduit une réévaluation structurelle en cours, et non une période transitoire de volatilité macroéconomique. Elle est de plus en plus influencée par la convergence des cycles, c’est-à-dire l’interaction entre une dynamique économique de fin de cycle, les tensions géopolitiques non résolues et des comportements extrêmes réflexifs.
What do Canada’s retired general Wayne Eyre and Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman share in common? Answer: In their own ways, both have inadvertently warned the public about the deep relationship between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
The former’s warning came earlier this month, when the retired general told a conference in Ottawa that when it came to acquiring nuclear weapons, Canada should keep its “options open,” pointing out that Canada had “a good nuclear enterprise” including “the civilian infrastructure” and “the scientists.” Eyre, who served as Canada’s chief of the Defence Staff from 2021 to 2024, argued, “Let’s just have the conditions in place so that if we decide to go that way, we can do it in shorter order than some other countries who have no nuclear enterprise. It’s all about hedging.” Part of the strategy he recommended was to invest in aerospace and missile technology.
Looking up above Ukraine’s snaking front lines, some drones zip toward far-away targets while others hover lower— buzzing right above the heads of soldiers on the contact line, searching for their next target.
“There is constant activity in the air almost everywhere,” says one Ukrainian soldier on the front line. He declined to provide his name or any details about where he’s been deployed, as he was not authorized to speak.
This report is part of MEMRI’s repository of contemporary and historical foundational documents of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement.
The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an arm of the Qatari regime for disseminating extremist Islamist, anti-Western and antisemitic ideology,[1] maintains close ties with the terrorist organization Hamas, in line with Qatar’s decades-long policy of supporting terrorist organizations around the world. Both the IUMS and Hamas are closely affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), whose branches in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan were designated by the U.S. as terrorist on January 13, 2026, with a similar designation being considered by the E.U.[2]