A senior Israeli official said the IDF has established a “yellow line” dividing southern Lebanon. In Gaza, the IDF kills Palestinians who cross the “yellow line.” The senior Israeli official told reporters on Saturday, “The ‘Yellow Line’ model implemented in Gaza will...
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un attended the test firing of missiles with multiple reentry vehicles. “The purpose of the test-fire is to verify the characteristics and power of cluster bomb warhead and fragmentation mine warhead applied to the tactical...
The recent ceasefire between Israel and Iran may have paused the most intense phase of direct military confrontation, but it has done nothing to resolve the deeper questions about Middle Eastern stability that have emerged since October 7, 2023. Behind the temporary...
In Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions, Professor Todd Rose explains that to belong to a group, people "keep twisting [themselves] into pretzels, trying to conform to what we falsely believe everyone else expects...
President Donald Trump claimed an Iranian-flagged vessel attempted to break the US blockade. US forces attacked and boarded the cargo ship. “Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier,...
A senior Iranian official said President Donald Trump’s maximalist demands and erratic behavior are harming the diplomatic process. “Our assessment is that Trump effectively lacks both a coherent plan and the capacity to secure even a temporary agreement. His...
The USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier strike group has returned to the Middle East. The world’s largest aircraft carrier spent the last month in port after a laundry fire caused significant damage. On Saturday, The Associated Press reported speaking with two defense...
Download Audio. Scott interviews Trita Parsi about the ceasefire and negotiations between the Trump administration and the Iranians. Parsi believes, while this was a strategic defeat for the US, the ceasefire has given Trump the opportunity to walk away with no deal...
President Donald Trump said Congress must extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) even if it means giving up “rights and privileges.” Section 702 allows for the collection of Americans’ data without a warrant. In a post on Truth Social,...
European and Gulf Arab countries do not believe the conflict in the Middle East will be resolved in the short term. Arab and European leaders speaking with Bloomberg estimated it will take at least six months for the US and Iran to agree on a permanent end to the...
