Trump called NATO a 'paper tiger' and said withdrawal is 'beyond reconsideration.' Article 5 was invoked exactly once — when European allies came to America's defense after September 11.
Donald Trump has named the most specific timeline yet for ending the Iran war — but on the ground, fighting is intensifying, diplomacy is going nowhere, and neither Israel nor Iran has signed on to the schedule.
France blocked Israeli planes carrying US weapons through its airspace this weekend — the first refusal since the Iran war began. Four NATO members are now actively obstructing a conflict launched by their most powerful ally.
A US airstrike on Mashhad Airport damaged an Iranian aircraft scheduled to fly to New Delhi on a humanitarian aid run. Iran is calling it a war crime — and India, which has tried to stay out of the conflict, hasn't said a word.
The law mandates hanging within 90 days for Palestinians convicted in military courts with a roughly 96% conviction rate. Jewish Israelis who commit similar crimes face no equivalent provision.
Bunker-busters hit Isfahan overnight while Trump claimed peace talks were making 'great progress.' A Kuwaiti tanker carrying 2 million barrels was struck by an Iranian drone off Dubai. Oil is headed for the biggest monthly surge in market history.
Police counted 16 dead. Human rights workers counted 70. The gap between them measures how much of Haiti the state has ceded to armed gangs — including the farmland that feeds the country.
A venerable master allegedly ordered a business rival's murder for €70,000 using a hit squad staffed by French intelligence officers. The defendants say they thought they were working for the state.
Ninety per cent of Iran's oil exports pass through one island. Trump has just threatened to destroy it — along with Iran's power plants and drinking water supply. Brent crude is on track for the largest monthly gain in history.
Four Iranian missiles have entered Turkish airspace since the war began. All four were shot down by NATO. The alliance is not calling it an attack on a member state.
Thousands of American paratroopers are arriving in the Middle East and the White House wants Arab states to help finance a war that cost $11.3 billion in its first six days. The countries most likely to receive the bill are already under Iranian missile fire.
Five years after leading a coup that triggered a civil war, Myanmar's military chief is trading his uniform for the presidency. The war, the prisoners, and the ICC arrest warrant remain unchanged.
An Indian worker is dead and a Kuwaiti desalination plant is damaged — the first confirmed death from Iran's cross-border infrastructure campaign. Kuwait gets 90 per cent of its drinking water from the sea. There is almost no backup.
A Russian tanker sanctioned by three Western powers just sailed into Cuba — past a Coast Guard blockade that was never ordered to stop it. Nobody in Washington has said why.
Russia launched 273 drones at Ukraine the same night Zelenskyy signed a defense pact in Doha. Kyiv is offering interceptor-drone expertise in exchange for Patriot missiles it can no longer get from Washington.
For the second time in a week, Netanyahu has ordered Israeli forces deeper into Lebanon. Displaced civilians won't be allowed home until Israel decides its northern communities are safe — with no deadline in sight.
For the first time in centuries, Catholic leaders were barred from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. Israeli police cited Iranian missile threats; the Patriarchate called it 'grossly disproportionate.'
God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war," Pope Leo XIV declared at Palm Sunday Mass — days after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon for "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy."
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt arrived in Islamabad as Israeli warplanes struck Iran and Tehran fired cluster munitions at Tel Aviv. The war is spreading. The talks are not designed to stop it.
North Korea has nuclear weapons and its regime is intact. Iran stopped short of building the bomb and is under sustained bombardment. Governments from Warsaw to Tokyo are drawing conclusions the non-proliferation regime was designed to prevent.
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