For 13 nights in a row, US warplanes and warships hit targets inside Iran. Then, on the night that would have been strike number 14, nothing happened. No Pentagon statement. No new bomb damage assessment. Just silence over the Gulf. That silence is the Iran airstrikes pause, and it is the real story behind this … Read more
Update, July 27, 2026: The manhunt is over. Police shot and killed suspect Abdul Ballout on Sunday evening after he charged at officers with a bladed weapon. The original reporting on the attack itself remains below; the “How Did the Manhunt End?” section covers what’s new. A van tore through the crowd at Berlin’s Christopher … Read more
Russia’s most advanced fighter jet just crashed outside its own capital — and Russia’s own military bloggers are the ones suggesting Russia shot it down. Here’s what actually happened to the Su-57 on July 23, 2026, and why the explanation matters so much. What Happened to Russia’s Su-57 on July 23? Around 1:50 p.m. local … Read more
Why does Argentina claim the Falkland Islands? The question has two answers that have never been reconciled. Argentina calls the archipelago the Islas Malvinas and considers them an integral part of its national territory, inherited from Spain and seized by Britain in 1833. Britain calls them the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory whose inhabitants … Read more
Who owns the Strait of Hormuz? It is the question the entire 2026 war now turns on, and the honest answer is uncomfortable: three separate parties claim authority over that water, and not one of them has the law cleanly on its side. Iran says it administers the strait. Oman shares the water but rejects … Read more
On July 9, 2026, ten Iranian ballistic missiles flew toward a Jordanian air base called Al-Azraq. Jordan’s military shot down eight of them. Nobody died. Nothing important was destroyed. So why does this small, mostly-failed attack matter more than its body count suggests? The Iran Jordan attack is not really about Al-Azraq. It is about … Read more
Standing beside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Ankara on July 8, 2026, President Trump was asked a simple question about the US-Iran ceasefire. His answer was not simple at all: “I think it’s over.” Why did Trump say the Iran ceasefire is over, and does that actually change anything? Why Did Trump Say the … Read more
Update, July 20, 2026: What began as a single retaliatory strike on July 8 has become nine consecutive nights of US-Iran strikes, with dozens killed on both sides and the ceasefire now effectively abandoned by both governments. The sections below have been rewritten to cover the full two-week escalation; the original reporting on the July … Read more
Ali Khamenei died on February 28, 2026, killed alongside his top military command in a joint US-Israeli strike on his Tehran compound — an opening blow covered in detail in our 100-day retrospective on the Iran war. His funeral did not begin until July 4 — more than 125 days later. In a Shia tradition … Read more
After four marathon days of US-mediated talks in Washington, Israel and Lebanon signed a trilateral framework agreement on June 26, 2026, aimed at dismantling Hezbollah and ending the conflict that has devastated southern Lebanon since March. The Israel Lebanon framework agreement is being described by US officials as a historic first step — but Hezbollah … Read more