Israeli war on Iran is now entering its third week with no clear end in sight, largely shutting the Strait of Hormuz ...

Continuing our series of articles from The Astorian’s 1973 special edition celebrating our own centennial, this is legendary editor Fred Andrus’ interpretation of city history up to ...

The tiny island, located about 25 km off Iran’s coast, has long been seen as a key vulnerability that would provoke a severe ...

In stark contrast to Russian expectations of a walkover in February 2022, the full-scale invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has turned out to be one of the slowest-moving ...

Summary prepared by The Review of Religions After reciting Tashahhud, Ta‘awwuz and Surah al-Fatihah, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) said that the purpose of the message brought by the ...

Plus: A seventh American has been killed in the Iran conflict, the U.S. is almost certainly responsible for Tehran school strike, how Lindsey Graham helped start the war, and ...

Summary and Key Points: National security journalist Stephen Silver examines the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, the definitive Cold War nuclear standoff. Initiated by the discovery of Soviet ...

Israel expanded its military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, unleashing airstrikes that killed scores.

Science fiction has long held the ability to foretell possible futures, no matter how absurd they may seem at the time of publication. I’ve written before (and probably will again) about how my dad ...

The ongoing Iran war has significantly impacted countries across the Middle East, with casualties and damage reported in ...

A fog manufactured and maintained by the people who started the war, so that the question of why it was started never has to be answered, observes Prem Panicker in his must read blog on the war in the ...

Trump calls it a "short-term excursion." Iran's Foreign Minister calls it a war they'll fight "as long as it takes." Regime change has already failed — Iran's new Supreme Leader is the hardline son of ...