In June 2026, two events underscored a reality that security professionals can no longer ignore: the drone threat is no ...

While humans must stay in the loop for kinetic decisions, empowering drones to operate autonomously is a force multiplier.

President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of IGP Olatunji Rilwanu Disu in February 2026 was widely praised across Nigeria as a masterful example of placing a “square peg in a square hole.” Security experts, ...

Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music discovery platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied ...

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (R) and Col. Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, grandson of Raul Castro, attend the Jan. 16, 2026, funeral of 32 Cuban soldiers killed during the U.S. incursion in ...

Summary and Key Points: Seven weeks into the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire, the IRGC has continued to fire on U.S. naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz — and Washington keeps misreading the signal ...

The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...

“SP,” a Ukrainian officer of the 12th Azov Brigade, at Azovstal in the spring of 2022. (Photo courtesy of “SP”) The final stage of the defense of Mariupol unfolded between May 18 and 20, 2022. For ...

Across Morocco’s public schools, principals increasingly feel trapped in a system that turns them into administrators of paperwork rather than leaders of learning. Behind the rhetoric of reform and ...

The Defence Headquarters on Monday announced that Nigerian troops, working in coordination with the United States Africa Command, AFRICOM, carried out fresh airstrikes that killed more than 20 ...

The prosecution of war crimes has increasingly transcended national borders, reflecting a growing interplay between domestic legal systems and international accountability mechanisms. Where states are ...

When Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had spent two decades studying US wars to build a system that could keep fighting even if the capital was bombed, he was describing more than ...