Why Spain is standing up to Donald Trump
Ishaan Tharoor
The New Yorker / May 13, 2026
Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist Prime Minister, has led the European opposition to the Iran war from the...
US war on Iran has cost about $29bn, Pentagon says
Kate Lamb a.o.
The Guardian / May 13, 2026
The Pentagon revealed on 29 April that the US war on Iran had cost about $25bn for...
UAE’s secret attack on Iran risks drawing Gulf states into the war
Patrick Wintour
The Guardian / May 12, 2026
If current precarious ceasefire between US and Iran ends, Emirates are more likely to be targeted by Tehran.
The...
U.S. Ambassador says Israel sent Iron Dome batteries to UAE during Iran war
Liza Rozovsky
Haaretz / May 12, 2026
Mike Huckabee described Israel's deployment of air defense systems to the UAE as one of the benefits of normalizing...
How Hezbollah’s $300 drones are challenging Israeli military
William Christou & Julian Borger
The Guardian / May 12, 2026
Non-state group learns from Ukrainian warfare to develop cabled drones that evade hi-tech defences of...
A secret Israeli base in Iraq ? – what we know
AJ Staff
Al-Jazeera / May 12, 2026
Israeli troops reportedly used this base to launch attacks against Iran during the war.
Israel built a secretly operated military...
How the U.S.‑Israel war against Iran is exposing the limits of the petrodollar system
Elliot Goodell Ugalde & Natalie Braun
The Conversation / May 12, 2026
For the first time since the Second World War, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic, public...
Israeli MPs back special tribunal with death penalty powers for alleged 7 October attackers
Peter Beaumont
The Guardian / May 12, 2026
Knesset approves plan for livestreamed trials in military court, drawing comparisons to 1962 Adolf Eichmann trial.
Israeli lawmakers have...
We can’t curb nuclear proliferation if we don’t acknowledge Israel’s nukes
Etan Mabourakh
Truthout / May 12, 2026
No credible non-proliferation policy begins by pretending not to see the bombs your ally already has.
Thirty House Democrats, led...
The son, the deputy and the prisoner: inside Fatah’s battle over the post-Abbas era
Jack Khoury
Haaretz / May 12 2026
As Gaza lies in ruins and the Palestinian Authority sinks deeper into crisis, Fatah's long-delayed conference is centered on...
