Reports: Deadly airstrike in north Syria kills 13 people
A war monitor and first responders group say an airstrike has killed at least 13 people in a village in northwestern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the dead, most of them internally displaced persons, include seven children and th…
Spy Sub Down: How a Secret Russian Nuclear Submarine Caught Fire
A fire broke out on a Russian research submarine earlier this week, killing fourteen sailors in what is Russia’s worst submarine disaster since 2008.Russian authorities have remained tight-lipped on the nature of the data being collected by the submari…
Iran denies seizing British-flagged oil tanker in Persian Gulf in retaliation amid rising tensions
Iran has dismissed reports about the seizure of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, according to the country’s IRIB news agency. It comes just one day after a general in Tehran threatened to seize a UK ship in retaliation after Royal Marines capt…
Gut Check: A Good Guide to the Use of Military Force?
As expected, the decision to support the strike felt much more difficult when one or more Americans had died.Why did U.S. President Donald Trump recently call off a retaliatory strike against Iran?The answer was proportionality: Trump said the American…
Turkey’s Erdogan meets head of Libya’s UN-supported gov’t
Turkey’s president has met with the head of Libya’s U.N.-recognized government, following heightened tensions between Turkey and forces loyal to a rival Libyan authority. In a statement from his office late Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reite…
Rome’s Five Star Mayor Gets Trash Ultimatum From Political Rival
(Bloomberg) — Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi got a warning from a political rival over the capital’s trash crisis.Nicola Zingaretti, president of the Lazio region that includes the capital, told Rome’s waste-disposal agency to clean up the city within seve…
North Korea says released Australian student was spying
North Korea said Saturday that an Australian student who it detained for a week had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda and engaged in spying by providing photos and other materials to news outlets with critical views toward the North. Pyongyang’s offici…
Sudan protesters cancel marches in wake of agreement
Sudan’s pro-democracy movement on Saturday abandoned plans for marches next week, after it reached a power-sharing deal with the ruling military council following a weekslong standoff over the role of the army in the transition. Both sides agreed on F…
Heatwave Shows Germany Needs More Action on Climate, Merkel Says
(Bloomberg) — The blistering heatwave that struck Germany and other parts of Europe last month shows the country needs to take further action to protect the environment, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her weekly podcast.“Extreme weather events are b…
Five years into war, Yemen at ‘rock bottom’
Like most residents of Amran, a strategic gateway to Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Najri thought the capture of his city by Huthi rebels five years ago would not last long. Fifty kilometres (30 miles) north of Sanaa, Amran was taken by the Iran-b…
UPDATE 1-UK should be ‘scared’ of Tehran’s response over tanker, cleric says -Fars
Britain should be “scared” about Tehran’s possible retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines in Gibraltar, the Fars semi-official news agency on Saturday reported an Iranian cleric as saying. “I am openly saying that Brita…
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