Michael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has voiced mounting concern over the "growing fatigue and intensifying discussions" regarding the cessation of emergency protection measures for Ukrainian refugees within the EU and across Europe. O'Flaherty, who served as Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission from 2011 to 2013, emphasized that a "slow and fragmented phase-out" of the European...
In a significant escalation of diplomatic pressure, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned Gulf nations that their own security is being endangered by allowing American and Israeli forces to operate from their soil. The warning was delivered via a post on X and marked one of Pezeshkian's most direct addresses to neighboring governments since the conflict began. The war between Iran and the US...
There is an important distinction between restraint that is negotiated — accepted voluntarily by a partner in response to persuasion and relationship management —...
The Gulf energy sector went into freefall on Wednesday after Iran threatened sweeping retaliation against Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari energy infrastructure following Israeli bombing...
President Donald Trump publicly shamed NATO allies on Tuesday following what he described as a decisive military victory over Iran, calling the alliance's members...
In scenes that underscored deepening divisions within the Western alliance, European nations lined up against Donald Trump's Hormuz war plans, declining to send warships...
President Donald Trump has revealed a "historic" $300 billion plan to establish a massive oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas. This project, which involves India’s...
President Donald Trump has defended the ongoing military action in Iran as a "necessary excursion" to achieve long-term regional peace. Trump stated that the...
The scope of Iran's military operations expanded dramatically on Sunday, the same day that Mojtaba Khamenei was confirmed as the country's new supreme leader....
It takes considerable political force to send the relationship between two longstanding allies into visible turbulence. The American president demonstrated that he possessed that...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is navigating a landscape of unprecedented political fragility following the death of its Supreme Leader in a coordinated US-Israeli...
President Trump used his State of the Union Address to deliver an implicit but unmistakable warning: the window for diplomatic resolution of the Iranian...
