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Islamic State’s metamorphosis: from caliphate to networked insurgency

From territorial collapse to decentralized global network, ISIS has transformed into a hydra-headed threat anchored in Africa and Asia

By Layla Hassan and Featured News Desk

/ 18 Jan 2026

Islamic State’s metamorphosis: from caliphate to networked insurgency

Myanmar genocide hearings begin as international law confronts its enforcement crisis

The ICJ opens landmark proceedings on the Rohingya while military junta continues systematic violence

By Featured News Desk

/ 12 Jan 2026

Myanmar genocide hearings begin as international law confronts its enforcement crisis

Russia deploys submarine to shield Venezuelan tanker from U.S. seizure

Moscow turns a sanctions enforcement operation into a test of military resolve on the high seas

By Viktor Petersen and Featured News Desk

/ 7 Jan 2026

Russia deploys submarine to shield Venezuelan tanker from U.S. seizure

When the oil runs dry: Inside Venezuela's descent from promise to catastrophe

Maduro's arrest answered nothing. How does a nation with more oil than Saudi Arabia become synonymous with starvation and mass exodus? Venezuela's paradox isn't one man's fall—it's two decades of collapse built atop the world's richest reserves.

By Diego Martinez and Featured News Desk

/ 6 Jan 2026

When the oil runs dry: Inside Venezuela's descent from promise to catastrophe

Maduro captured as US forces strike Venezuela military installations

Trump announces regime change operation following months of military buildup in Caribbean region

By Viktor Petersen and Featured News Desk

/ 3 Jan 2026

Maduro captured as US forces strike Venezuela military installations

History: The arithmetic of catastrophe: How Operation Uranus trapped 300,000 men at Stalingrad (🔒)

Soviet maskirovka, German hubris, and the mathematical impossibility of Hermann Göring's fatal promise

By Viktor Petersen and Featured News Desk

/ 20 Nov 2025

History: The arithmetic of catastrophe: How Operation Uranus trapped 300,000 men at Stalingrad (🔒)

The reckoning arrives: Roger Lumbala and the limits of justice in Congo's endless war

After decades of impunity, a Congolese warlord faces trial in Paris—but the proceedings expose how selective accountability perpetuates cycles of violence

By Featured News Desk

/ 12 Nov 2025

The reckoning arrives: Roger Lumbala and the limits of justice in Congo's endless war

Pokrovsk encircled: The symbolism that sustains attrition in eastern Ukraine

As Russian forces tighten their grip on the embattled city, the battle reveals how symbolic objectives drive grinding warfare where strategic value has already diminished

By Featured News Desk

/ 11 Nov 2025

Pokrovsk encircled: The symbolism that sustains attrition in eastern Ukraine

The mercenary pipeline: How economic desperation fuels the global trade in foreign fighters

As states formalize foreign fighter recruitment from Latin America to South Asia, a new architecture of exploitative warfare emerges that weaponizes poverty and marginalizes populations seeking escape from structural inequality

By Diego Martinez, Elena Kowalski, Layla Hassan and Featured News Desk

/ 8 Nov 2025

The mercenary pipeline: How economic desperation fuels the global trade in foreign fighters

Ukraine's gamified warfare reveals hard truths about modern conflict

Data-driven incentives, digital battlefields, and the uncomfortable evolution of 21st-century power projection

By Viktor Petersen and Featured News Desk

/ 4 Nov 2025

Ukraine's gamified warfare reveals hard truths about modern conflict

The narco-pretext doctrine: How counter-drug rhetoric masks Venezuela intervention architecture

As naval assets converge and target lists circulate, Washington's Caribbean buildup reveals the structural logic of 21st-century regime change operations

By Diego Martinez and Featured News Desk

/ 1 Nov 2025

The narco-pretext doctrine: How counter-drug rhetoric masks Venezuela intervention architecture

Baltic Fortress: NATO's New Maginot Line Against Russia

Russia's hybrid attacks intensify as NATO deploys brigade-level forces to the Baltics. Inside the militarization that's either preventing war—or guaranteeing it.

By Elena Kowalski, Viktor Petersen and Featured News Desk

/ 25 Oct 2025

Baltic Fortress: NATO's New Maginot Line Against Russia

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