Diplomacy & International Relations

Moscow’s Double Standards on Full Display Over Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities (Anna J. Davis – The Jamestown Foundation)

Kremlin officials are condemning the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities as violations of international law while simultaneously committing violations of Ukrainian sovereignty. Moscow...

Assessing the Effect of the U.S. Strikes on Iran (Michael Froman – Council on Foreign Relations)

There has been much commentary about the U.S. airstrike last weekend against three key nuclear sites deep inside Iran: Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. The...

The Nonproliferation Chilling Effect U.S. Strikes on Iran Nuclear Sites Could Cause (Erin D. Dumbacher – Council on Foreign Relations)

The U.S. military joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran on June 21, targeting nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan with bunker-buster bombs and...

Four fundamental questions the NATO Summit did not answer (Torrey Taussig – Atlantic Council)

NATO leaders are breathing a sigh of relief after a smooth summit in The Hague that projected allied unity and secured a new defense...

The DRC and Rwanda agreed to a US-backed peace deal. Can critical minerals help end this conflict? (Atlantic Council)

It’s “been a long time waiting,” as US President Donald Trump put it. On Friday, the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic...

Russia captures over 100-acre lithium reserve, one of Europe’s biggest ‘white gold’ sites (Interesting Engineering)

Russian forces have seized control of a key lithium-rich zone near the village of Shevchenko in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The site, located roughly 2...

Dispatch from Damascus: Church attack shows transition’s fragility (Ibrahim al-Assil – Atlantic Council)

I was en route from Damascus to Beirut on June 22 when the news began lighting up my phone—messages from friends, notifications, headlines. A...

Bipartisan bill seeks to ban federal agencies from using DeepSeek, AI tools from ‘foreign adversaries’ (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

A pair of senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that would ban federal agencies from using artificial intelligence tools produced in countries considered “foreign...

Taiwan leads in AI election defence efforts (DigWatch)

Taiwan has been chosen to lead a new coalition formed by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems to strengthen democratic resilience against AI-driven disinformation....

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