Analysis argues U.S. strikes on Iran target China’s energy lifelines, linking Hormuz, Venezuela and rare earth geopolitics ...

How the little-known atoll of Diego Garcia is becoming another flashpoint in the global contest between the U.S. and China ...

Iran’s Hormuz chokehold shows how easily a war in West Asia can rattle global energy markets. But perhaps this oil shock ...

I learnt that phrase in a stuffy classroom years ago, but it has taken the past two weeks for the lesson to truly sink in. Watching the United States and Israel wade into the Iranian swamp has been ...

The war in Iran stretches into its second week following the US-Israeli airstrikes coordinated under Operation Epic Fury, resulting in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene.

Interior Minister John Reimberg warned for residents in four provinces to obey a curfew to avoid ‘collateral damage’.

Roughly one fifth of the world’s petroleum passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The moment that artery appears threatened, ...

President Donald Trump’s top aides are already scripting a victory narrative in Iran for the inevitable day when he tries to extricate himself from the war.

Every conflict sparks fears of market turmoil. Yet the past half century (or more), from the two earlier Gulf wars to the US bombing of Libya, shows that conflicts have no lasting impact on stock ...

From Venezuela to Gaza, the selective application of international law by powerful states and their critics alike is draining the post-1945 order of its last reserves of legitimacy.

For decades, US foreign policy has adopted the pattern of ‘selective liberation’—the deployment of human rights language when aligned with US strategic interests and its relative absence when it confl ...

Alliances may offer protection, but they can also import conflicts, rivalries and strategic compulsions that are not a nation’s own. The real test of sovereignty lies in whether a country can secure i ...