Author: Timothy Nerozzi

The Israeli military destroyed Iran’s internal security headquarters overnight in a strike. The command center was a significant target for Israel, which is seeking to decimate Iranian military and law enforcement authorities and generate domestic unrest. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz boasted of the bombing on social media Wednesday, comparing it to “a tornado [passing]…

Ali Shadmani, perhaps the most senior military leader in Iran’s now-decapitated armed forces, was reportedly assassinated just days into taking his position. The Israel Defense Forces announced early Tuesday morning that it eliminated Shadmani via an “IAF strike in central Tehran, following precise intelligence.” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei installed Shadmani as leader of the…

Russia is pushing itself as a candidate to hold Iran’s enriched uranium in hypothetical peace arrangements with Israel. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov offered last week to provide “services” for the “export of excess nuclear material produced by Iran” to aid a larger “negotiation process” to de-escalate the region. Peskov reiterated the offer on Monday as…

When the Christian Democratic Union won the German parliamentary elections in February, it was far from a reassuring victory. The Alternative for Germany, the nation’s most prominent right-wing political party, had ridden a wave of resentment against establishment immigration policy and anti-nationalism to secure a stunning second place finish. CDU leader Friedrich Merz — now…

The Israel Defense Forces and Mossad claim to have launched their devastating strike on Iran from a secret base constructed within the Islamic Republic’s own borders. Iran was devastated by a surprise attack, dubbed “Rising Lion,” in the early hours of June 13, as Israeli weapons targeted nuclear facilities, military command centers, and missile sites.…

President Lee Jae-myung is taking action to ease tensions between South Korea and the People’s Republic of China, hoping to enlist the regional power’s help improving relations with the regime to their north. Lee made this goal explicit during his phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, in which he called on the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu survived yet another attempt to vote his government out of power, despite the opposition’s best attempts to activate the country’s religious communities against him. The bill, which would have dissolved the Knesset and called for new elections, was defeated on Thursday with 61 out of the 120 lawmakers voting against.…

EXCLUSIVE — Violent gang members linked to the international crime syndicate Tren de Aragua were swept up by Peruvian law enforcement during a human trafficking sting in northern Lima this past weekend. Behind the scenes, Aerial Recovery, a U.S. nonprofit organization mobilizing military veterans, was helping empower the teams and ensure the victims received necessary…

Pope Leo XIV is being pushed by Western powers to mediate an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It’s a responsibility that the pontiff is eager to take on and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is signaling openness to the idea. “The Vatican is a symbol of the highest morality of free Western democratic civilization,”…

It has long been an unwritten rule of the Catholic Church that no citizen of a world superpower can be pope. The informal logic is that such an arrangement would risk putting preeminent temporal and spiritual authority into the hands of the same clan. It is always safer to pick a pope from a more…