For over a decade, Rojava has represented one of the most ambitious political experiments that has arisen from the ruins of the Syrian civil war. Driven by a utopian vision of grassroots democracy and ...

Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern ...

With attacks and threats, Tehran is using the world’s most important transit point for oil and gas as leverage against its enemies.

Supply chains rely on predictability. The persistent geopolitical uncertainty has complicated operations worldwide. Limited alternatives make the de facto closure of the strait of Hormuz all the more ...

A fictional account of a third Gulf war between America, Israel and Iran explores how such a conflict might reshape Middle Eastern geopolitics and regional alliances.

The unprecedented US and Israeli attack against Iran on Saturday has already surpassed previous strike-and-retaliation cycles as Tehran treats the conflict as an existential threat. Just hours after ...

Both sides have issued sharply different accounts of what has happened A Pakistani soldier stands guard at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on February 27, 2026, following overnight ...

After eight episodes of post-apocalypse insanity and plenty of irradiated creatures, Fallout wrapped up Season 2 with the season finale, “The Strip,” this week. Given that multiple characters are left ...

An Assyrian Church in al Hasakah, the capital of Rojava and the site of major battles between Daesh and the SDF / Government forces. (Photo: Bertramz, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) The SDF was ...

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Pakistan-Afghanistan Conflict Explained: TTP Militancy, Border Strikes and the Escalation into ‘Open War’ Pexels The sudden descent into what Pakistan's defence minister has called 'open war' with ...