11+ hour, 36+ min ago   (555+ words) Iran's Alternative Trade Routes: With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, Iranian imports and exports are going through border crossings with Turkey and Pakistan, as well as a freight route to China via Central Asia. It is also using its Caspian…...

9+ hour, 55+ min ago   (945+ words) By Collins Chong Yew Keat Trump has unfinished business with Jong Un, and despite the parallel conflicts in West Asia and Ukraine, Trump sees this as a similar marked opportunity to push for a three-front diplomatic triumphs at once, with…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (942+ words) A prominent Catholic theologian who has previously defended the Trump administration’s immigration policies on theological grounds has joined the Department of Homeland Security, the agency confirmed. Chad Pecknold, who has taught theology at The Catholic University of America (Catholic University)…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (776+ words) Every year, tons of cocaine cross the Atlantic concealed within legitimate cargo. To detect these shipments before they reach their destination, authorities increasingly rely on maritime intelligence sharing — a key tool for identifying suspicious vessels and tracking the criminal networks…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (370+ words) The UN’s atomic agency said Iran is carrying out construction activity at a secretive site suspected of being used for nuclear activity, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The report comes after President Donald Trump said the United States may attack the…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (590+ words) By Dr. Ju Hyung Kim South Korea is again confronting a familiar alliance problem: when Washington requests support in a conflict far away from the Korean Peninsula, how much military risk should Seoul accept? As of early September, options discussed…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (412+ words) Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy, NASA-led work is in full swing to make the academy a reality and shape the future of America’s aerospace workforce and leadership....

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (402+ words) "Imperialist Realism: Politics and Culture at the End of the American Century," by Daniel Bessner That is a valuable observation. Ideas matter. Political orders require intellectual justifications, and the categories through which people understand the world can constrain what they…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (745+ words) By K. Lloyd Billingsley On Sep. 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people from many nations, including 24 Canadians. On the 25th anniversary, the people might recall the U.S. agency that failed to stop…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (881+ words) The United States just experienced its hottest summer on record, officials said, after several months of exceptionally high temperatures and expanding drought across the country. As an Islamic Hadith tradition states, a time will come when “they will eat up…...