Emerging Risks

Why China will never have the world’s preeminent economy.

Fires are supposed to reset ecosystems, paving the way for new growth. But human meddling and climate change have turned them into monsters.

The sorry spectacle will convince a great many Americans that we are nothing but arrant hypocrites.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh attends a groundbreaking ceremony for the Rafah Medical Complex in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. …

The failure in Afghanistan is a rude awakening for America 20 years too late.

It seems that the Iranian regime has provided Israel with the perfect excuse to take military action against Tehran. This opportunity came after the Islamic Republic was implicated in the drone strike on an oil tanker, owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer, off the coast of Oman. Two crew members, a Briton and a Romanian, died in the attack. This has led to heated exchanges between Israeli and Iranian leaders that have reached dangerous levels.

Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Tuesday, a move that could help it develop a nuclear weapon and that three European powers said threatened talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Iran has made progress in its work on enriched uranium metal, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a report to member states on Monday seen by Reuters, despite Western warnings that such work threatens talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal.

The IPCC is unequivocal: we must take urgent action to curb global heating and prevent catastrophe. Will our policymakers and the Cop26 conference be up to the task?

The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard—the U.S. sea services—are currently prosecuting “Large Scale Exercise 2021.” The maneuver’s banal codename belies its ambition. Navy spokesmen bill it as the biggest exercise in a generation, and one that spans seventeen time zones. Its immediate goal is to prove out operational concepts that have remained mostly […]

China is building a third missile field that will hold more than 100 new DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles, The Washington Times has learned.

The Quad's success poses a major threat to Beijing’s ambitions.

Iran’s nuclear program is chugging ahead at the highest levels of enrichment ever and with the least international supervision in years.

Hezbollah continues to develop its arsenal with a continued focus on precision guided munitions, and both Israel and Hezbollah watch for any change in the rules of engagements along the Blue Line.

William Burns visits Israel for talks focused on Iran; reportedly given dossier describing Ebrahim Raisi as a demented extremist who can't be negotiated with

The markets are almost certainly deep into the late stages of a bubble. At some point, something will spook them.

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,117, August 9, 2021EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Hezbollah and its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, do not have the authority to independently unleash their vast rocket/m

Booster shots are needed ‘right away’ for elderly people as virus in their body can mutate more

But they left a few clues that gave them away.

If it's true the Russians have intercepted Israeli missiles targeting Iran-backed militias, Washington may have to step in.

Nazak Nikakhtar 'elated' by Biden's hard-line stance on Beijing

China now has the military arsenal to pose the greatest threat to the Australian mainland since World War II, experts warn.

Initial reports say blast caused 2 light injuries and considerable damage, amid escalating maritime tensions in region

  The more time passes since recent attacks on western-owned ships, the more fingers are pointing at Iran and its

Belarus ‘border crisis’ and military exercise could cause ‘misunderstanding’, says foreign minister

Germany may have secured lower gas prices for itself with Nord Stream 2, but it has made both energy and security more costly for the rest of the European Union.

Heat up northern Israel, to show it can strike anywhere it wants if it is pressed about the tanker attack.

A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this …

If there is a recurrence of the recent incidents between Hezbollah and Israel, the situation could escalate and even lead to war. Hezbollah, a Lebanese group, fought the IDF from the early 1980s to 2000, when the IDF was deployed in Lebanon. In 2006 the two sides clashed again, for 34 days, in a war that ended in a tie. Since then, both sides have invested significant efforts in upgrading their capabilities. The next round might happen if Iran tries to produce a nuclear weapon, a move which may result in Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear sites.

Analysis by The Telegraph reveals attacks on ships have risen sharply since 2019 amid warnings of a growing risk of open war