Washington and Tehran agree on a memorandum of understanding, but the Iran war is far from over; Europeans are souring on trans-Atlantic relations just as the Trump administration rotates military assets away from the continent; and Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo has scored an early operational success deep within Russia.

Pressure mounts on the Iran war ceasefire; Taiwan and China face off at a disputed atoll in the South China Sea; a supercharged El Niño threatens to compound an already dire food security outlook; and the House GOP defies President Trump on the Ukraine war.

Examining the latest diplomatic efforts to hammer out a framework deal in the Iran war, signs that the Ebola outbreak in central Africa is worse than the data reflects, and the tentative return of the Quad as a player in the Indo-Pacific security architecture.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war, a Putin-Xi summit just one week after President Trump came to town, and an expanding Ebola outbreak in the DRC.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war, a conspicuously muted summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping, and growing pains in a recent BRICS+ meeting.

Examining attempts to secure a long-lasting peace deal in the Iran war, ominous trends in global food prices, and what a rare ceasefire could mean for the Ukraine war.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war, the bottom falling out of US-EU relations, and how an expanding insurgency threatens state collapse in Mali.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war and Japan’s re-invention as an autonomous player in Indo-Pacific security.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, prospects for a ceasefire extension, and new signs of stress in the US military-industrial complex.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, including reports of covert Chinese arms shipments to Iran and the risks involved in President Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war; how President Trump’s latest attacks on NATO allies are producing a new response; and mounting global economic fallout from supply chain disruptions in the Persian Gulf.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, including signs of possible TACO fatigue in the markets, the Houthis entrance into the war, and the increasingly scorched earth character of target selection.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, signs of distress in UK bond markets, and Russia’s advancing efforts to assert state control over its domestic internet.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, the impact that the conflict is having on global food prices, what the redeployment of THAAD ‘parts’ from South Korea to the Middle East tells us about the war, and a wave of brutal attacks against military bases in northeast Nigeria.

Examining cascading regional fallout from joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran: recent attacks on critical water and energy infrastructure, evidence of Iran’s ‘mosaic defense’ in action, the possibility of divergences in US-Israeli alignment, and mixed messages surrounding a Kurdish offensive in Iran.

This week we examine the launch of a ‘major combat operation’ by the United States and Israel against Iran, the outbreak of all-out war between Pakistan and Afghanistan, China’s latest effort to turn the economic screws on Japan, Iceland looking to move up its referendum on EU membership, a hotter-than-expected inflation report in the United States, and Ukraine’s low-tech approach to shoring up drone defenses.

This week we examine the potential impact of new protests on US-Iran negotiations, fallout from the US Supreme Court striking down President Trump’s landmark tariff policy, new rare earth magnet facilities in India and the United States, and the potential for faster-than-expected rate hikes in Japan.

This week we examine Trump’s embrace of the Chavista regime in Venezuela, reports of multiple assassination attempts targeting President al-Shaara in Syria, Beijing’s accelerating efforts to offload US debt, and new indications in Europe and Canada of a fundamental realignment in global defense industries.

This week we examine a suspicious Russian tanker under military escort in Libya, a brazen attack by Islamist insurgents in Niger, an Iran ‘armada’ that seems all for show, and the implications of a high-level leadership purge in China.

This week we examine show elections in Myanmar, the re-deployment of a US Carrier Strike Group to the Middle East, and new US tariff threats against Canada.