NKHR Interview

Tensions between Iran and the United States are escalating rapidly. After brief progress securing the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran has sunk two commercial vessels and expanded attacks into the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Washington and Israel are preparing for potential renewed strikes, with neit ...

Saudi Arabia possesses expensive American air defences and thousands of foreign troops, yet Houthi missiles and drones continue striking civilian airports, oil facilities, and cities. The rebels exploit a critical weakness: coordinated swarms of cheap weapons overwhelm costly interceptor systems ...

Mali faces a devastating multi-front insurgency that threatens to collapse the state entirely. Al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM and Tuareg separatists control swathes of the north, while the Russia-backed junta suffers catastrophic losses. With soldiers growing disillusioned and regional allies overwhel ...

Trump announced a US-Russia diesel deal and an "energy ceasefire" that Ukraine never agreed to. Russia immediately violated it by striking Ukrainian power plants. The deal faces bipartisan opposition as potentially illegal under 2022 sanctions laws. Analysts say the imported diesel will barely d ...