Congress Seeks to Ban China from Key International Finance Orgs if Believed to Threaten Taiwan
The House recently passed a bill entitled the PROTECT Taiwan Act, which would, if signed into law, order the…
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Local Economy Seems Bolstered by ‘Irreversible’ Peace Between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Consolidated data shows that Armenian economic activity grew 9.2% in 2025 off the back of a substantial change in…
Trump’s Greenland Obsession May Involve Blocking China-Backed Australian Mining Company
As WaL reported on January 23rd, President Trump’s obsession with critical minerals spun-off into an obsession with Greenland. Understanding that…
Trump’s ‘Obsession’ with Critical Minerals Led Him to Greenland–for No Good Reason
Last July, Foreign Policy described President Trump as being “obsessed” with critical minerals—a byword for a host of commodities as common…
Yemen’s Separatists Dissolve Under Saudi Offensive, Imperiling Any Sort of Respite in the Country
Story at a glance… Saudi-backed groups have retaken control of south and east Yemen from a separatist group backed…
‘A Crisis Between Two Occupiers’—Houthis Muse Saudi-UAE Infighting in Southern Yemen
Infighting has broken out between two Gulf nations united in their attempts to oust the Houthis from the capital…
US Navy Appears to Be Outgunned as Chinese ‘Carrier Killer’ Enters Mass Production
Having been reportedly in development for 3 years, the People’s Liberation Army’s YJ-20 hypersonic ship-to-ship missile is being claimed…
Congress to Vote on War Powers Over Venezuelan Aggression: Trump Suggests Bombing Land Will Begin
On Wednesday, the House will vote on Concurrent Resolution 61 to exercise the War Powers Act in response to…
Tributes, Lowered Flags, Zero Answers: Why Two Iowa Nat. Guardsmen Died in Syria
The Iowa National Guard identified the two guardsmen who were killed, along with a 54-year-old Iraqi-American contractor, in an…
Azerbaijan to Supply Oil to Armenia for the First Time in History
On December 5th, the Georgian Ministry of Economy noted that it received a request from its eastern neighbor Azerbaijan:…
Somalis Targeted at Home by ICE and Abroad as Trump Launches 109th Airstrike on Somalia
The Trump Administration has conducted 109 airstrikes in Somalia so far this year, continuing its record-breaking campaign against the…
Venezuela War Would Be Over Oil, Agrees Pentagon, US Congress, Maduro, and Colombian President
Having amassed an enormous combined arms force off the coast, placed the Venezuelan President on the US list of…
While the Post Brags About Minimal Russian Gains Ukraine Sees a Desertion Every 2 Minutes
A Ukrainian MP recently made an unsubstantiated claim that there were 400,000 open and ongoing cases of desertion from…
Foreign Backers Perpetuate Civil War in Sudan, as Nation Becomes Chessboard for Others’ Interests
Months after Sudan’s decades-old civil war exploded in renewed violence, a proposed roadmap to peace aims to halt the conflict…
Ukraine War: Russians Gain in Zaporizhia, Kharkhiv, Even While Taking Pokrovsk
Much of the last year of war coverage in Ukraine has centered around the Russian advance on the coal-mining…
Trump Joins in Nikol Pashinyan’s Vision of a ‘Real Armenia’ at Peace with its Neighbors
This is Part 2 of a 2-part series on the negotiations to end the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and normalize relations…
Embattled Armenian PM Makes Impassioned Plea to End ‘Soviet KGB Narrative’ vs Azerbaijan
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on the negotiations to end the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and normalize relations…
Russian Parliament: “We Can ‘Mirror’ in Venezuela What West Is Doing in Ukraine”–Sends Air Defenses
When regional relations Iran and Syria called on Russia to help defend them against attacks by America, Israel, and…
Lessons from History Loom Large as Trump Weighs War Options in Venezuela
A report in the New York Times claims that Trump has major legal and military considerations to make having arrived at…
Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Starting Back Up Again?
Banned since the early 90s, the testing of nuclear weapons may or may not now be coming back into…