Twitter logo of U.S. Pacific Command The Department of War announced on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) that the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) will officially restore its name to the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). It was originally established on January 1, 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. It was named US Indo-Pacific Command in 2018. In…
Taiwan and China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory, have long spied on each other, and Taiwan in particular has reported an increased number of Chinese espionage cases. | Photo Credit: Reuters China said on Wednesday (June 17, 2026) that it will take countermeasures in response to a new Taiwan government…
A close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, Musk folded xAI into his space exploration company SpaceX in February [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen Tuesday by AFP. The June 15 brief defends the…
The scope and complexity of the current issues are daunting. These include the question of U.S. sanctions, a release of over $100 billion of frozen Iranian assets, regional issues such as the crisis in Lebanon and the problem of U.S. military bases, and the demand for reparations. However, Iran’s nuclear enrichment and its assertion of…
The chants were familiar. But this time, they echoed not in Tehran, but in Herat. In mid-June, Afghanistan’s western city of Herat witnessed a rare display of public defiance against the Taliban. Women, and this time, men too, marched through the streets chanting “Women, Work and Freedom”, a slogan probably inspired by Iran’s 2022 “Woman,…
The world is holding its breath with respect to the June 14 adoption of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States for a cessation of hostilities and a 60-day period of negotiation to iron out their thorny differences. The scepticism stems from at least two scores of premature claims by U.S….
Even as the ceasefire between the United States and Iran was being repeatedly breached, the Iran war showed something that the world appears to have forgotten: military force, by itself, cannot be a solution unless it is followed by a political settlement — whether in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan or Iran. The last four years…
‘For decades, Israel has benefited strategically from the perception of Iran as the principal source of instability in West Asia’ | Photo Credit: AFP The signing of a United States-Iran peace memorandum offers a rare opportunity to reduce tensions in one of the world’s most volatile regions. After decades marked by sanctions, proxy wars, covert…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting with his British counterpart Keir Starmer on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Evian-les-Bains, France. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the fringes of the G7 Summit in Evian, on Tuesday (June 16,…
Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran on February 28 to bring about regime change in Tehran, destroy its nuclear and missile capabilities and end its support for non-state actors such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. More than 100 days later, on June 15, the U.S. reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with…