Marc Champion

Tehran’s Grand Mosalla Mosque, where the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was held in state earlier this month, is an extraordinary building. In a country filled with exquisitely tiled, millennium-old houses of worship, this one is a plain, brutalist...

Ukraine’s survival against a vastly more powerful Russian foe has always rested on an uneasy alliance between a corrupt state, steeped in Soviet-era reflexes, and a more innovative, Westward-looking population, much of it too young to have been shaped by the former USSR. The recent showdown between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 60-year-old top military commander and his 35-year-old defense minister had threatened to destroy that partnership. His decision on Tuesday to fire the former and reins

Donald Trump has waded into the furor over his administration’s reported, but as yet unpublished, nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, posting on Truth Social that it precludes any future Saudi uranium enrichment program and is contingent on Riyadh joining the so-called Abraham Accords with Israel. Let’s hope that is, for want of a better word, truthful. The administration has some strong arguments for making such an agreement. Top of the list is the concern that Riyadh will eventually go to Russia

Not for the first time since he began a six-week war with Iran five months ago, US President Donald Trump finds himself stuck. He told the world last week he would unleash a hell yet unseen on Tehran, because Iran’s leaders clearly hadn’t been hit hard enough to understand the futility of resistance. Now, he has stood down, apparently after being advised he has no good military options.

Donald Trump's Iran strategy has reached a dead end despite repeated military threats, exposing the limits of US power. America's inability to force Iran into submission stems from a technological shift in modern warfare, where drones, satellites and precision weapons have empowered weaker nations, making traditional US military dominance increasingly ineffective.

Donald Trump this week met leaders from two wars, neither of which has an obvious end in sight and both of which are increasingly edging us toward a wider global conflict. That outcome is very possible, though by no means inevitable.

Donald Trump has waded into the furor over his administration's reported, but as yet unpublished, nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, posting on Truth Social that it precludes any future Saudi uranium enrichment program and is contingent on Riyadh joining the........

Iran has demonstrated already that, should Trump fulfill his threats to destroy the nation’s infrastructure, it has the capacity to do the same to America’s Gulf allies.

A misdiagnosis of U.S. failings leaves Trump stuck in Iran - Marc Champion

If the world of international affairs had self-help books, this year’s bestseller might be titled How to Find Hope When It’s Hopeless. There are so many examples for it to include, from peace in Ukraine to stability in the Persian Gulf to avoiding war over Taiwan. But one chapter, surely, should focus on Gaza, where we’re told there’s now a glimmer in the darkness.Just weeks after choosing a new leader, Hamas has agreed — for the first time since its formation — to disarm. There are still at lea