Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency assessed that China was weighing whether to provide Tehran with advanced radar systems, according to multiple U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The assessment emerged in the weeks following Feb. 28, 2026, when the…
Internal State Department cables dated April 15, 2026, warn that the ongoing U.S.-Iran war is eroding American credibility and straining security partnerships across three geographically and politically distinct countries, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, and Indonesia, with disproportionate damage in Muslim-majority populations. [1][2]…
The Trump administration's refusal to authorize the transfer of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago has frozen a bilateral treaty, left the joint U.S.-U.K. military base at Diego Garcia without a settled legal foundation, and placed Washington on a collision course…
President Donald Trump personally joined a second round of ambassador-level negotiations between Israel and Lebanon at the White House on Thursday and announced afterward that the two sides had agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks. The Associated Press…
The EU Council on April 23 adopted the final legislation needed to disburse a 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine, resolving a months-long standoff that had threatened Kyiv's ability to sustain wartime operations. Reuters confirmed the formal approval, which came…
President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Navy on Thursday to shoot and kill any small boat caught deploying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, ordering simultaneous mine-clearing operations to be tripled. "I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot…
A U.S. State Department delegation traveled to Havana on April 10 for the first high-level bilateral talks in nearly a decade. During that secret meeting, the administration presented a two-week deadline demanding the release of political prisoners, including dissident artists…