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Category: WORLD

Iran Made an Offer. America Has Answered. Now the Argument Is About Who Moves First.
WORLD

Iran Made an Offer. America Has Answered. Now the Argument Is About Who Moves First.

Iran has received Washington’s formal response to its latest proposal for ending the seven-month conflict and reopening the Strait of…

byTeam Independent01/10/202601/10/2026
America Went Into Iraq in 2003. Tomorrow Its Last Troops Leave. What Did 23 Years Achieve?
WORLD

America Went Into Iraq in 2003. Tomorrow Its Last Troops Leave. What Did 23 Years Achieve?

The last American forces are scheduled to leave Iraq tomorrow, September 30, closing a military presence that began with the…

byTeam Independent30/09/202630/09/2026
Oman Has Become the Gulf’s Emergency Exit. How Long Can It Cope?
WORLD

Oman Has Become the Gulf’s Emergency Exit. How Long Can It Cope?

Oman has spent years positioning itself as the Gulf state that talks to almost everyone and quarrels with almost no…

byTeam Independent29/09/202629/09/2026
Hormuz on One Side. The Red Sea on the Other. The Gulf Has a Two-Door Problem
WORLD

Hormuz on One Side. The Red Sea on the Other. The Gulf Has a Two-Door Problem

Saudi Arabia has warned that interference with Gulf shipping threatens international energy security. Riyadh has spent years building alternatives to…

byTeam Independent28/09/202628/09/2026
Trump Wanted Greenland. Now America Has a Deal Instead.
WORLD

Trump Wanted Greenland. Now America Has a Deal Instead.

Months after Donald Trump’s repeated demands for American control of Greenland triggered one of the strangest disputes between NATO allies,…

byTeam Independent24/09/202624/09/2026
Saudi Arabia Finds Another Way Out
WORLD

Saudi Arabia Finds Another Way Out

With Hormuz strangled, Saudi Arabia has restarted the pipeline that takes its oil in the opposite direction  – across the…

byTeam Independent23/09/202623/09/2026
Hormuz: Another Tanker Hit. The Danger Has Not Passed.
WORLD

Hormuz: Another Tanker Hit. The Danger Has Not Passed.

A reported strike injures two crew members as shipping continues through one of the world’s most consequential waterways under dangerous…

byTeam Independent22/09/202622/09/2026
Hormuz: The Temperature Just Went Up Again
WORLD

Hormuz: The Temperature Just Went Up Again

Shipping through the world’s most important oil chokepoint has slowed dramatically as Iran threatens retaliation and Gulf energy infrastructure comes…

byTeam Independent09/09/202609/09/2026
HABIBI, PALESTINE: WE ARE WITH YOU والله يا فلسطين نحن معك
WORLD

HABIBI, PALESTINE: WE ARE WITH YOU والله يا فلسطين نحن معك

GAZA: THEY BOMBED THE BUILDINGS – BUT NOT THE HUMAN SPIRIT Gaza Strip today is little more than a landscape…

byFaraz Shauketaly11/06/202611/06/2026
ISRAELI EXPANSION POLICY AT PLAY IN THE LEBANON – WHILST THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD IS DEAF AND BLIND
WORLD

ISRAELI EXPANSION POLICY AT PLAY IN THE LEBANON – WHILST THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD IS DEAF AND BLIND

Be that as it may, one of the most revealing aspects of modern geopolitics is no longer merely what powerful…

byFaraz Shauketaly12/05/202612/05/2026

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