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Coverage · August · 2026 · Geopolitics · 519 articles

Army Secretary Driscoll Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth

Three signals on one corridor: a tanker stop, an F-35 engagement, and a ship-count boast on the Strait of Hormuz

Tehran issues post-strike warning: 'no aggression tolerated from any direction'

Two clips, one narrative: Trump on Iran and the Ukraine bill

Supreme Court clears way for Trump's White House ballroom, 5-4

Trump rules out a nuclear strike on Iran in the same news cycle he vows to hit Tehran hard

Trump warns of a 'hard' US strike on Iran after Tehran claims a retaliatory barrage on Jordan

Athens signs its biggest-ever defence deal with Israel, a $3.5bn air-defence package

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza City targets as medical toll reaches five by midday

Trump's 100,000 figure, the held-back missile, and the public surface of a US-Iran escalation

Israeli drone strike kills three in Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City

Trump's Iran Escalation: 100,000 Killed, Zero Independent Confirmation

Trump tells Fox News Iran killed 100,000 protesters, pledges to 'hit them hard' after attack on US forces

Israeli drone strike on vehicle in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood on 31 August 2026

Modi and Pezeshkian meet in Bishkek, framing the SCO summit as a stage for India-Iran recalibration

Han Hak-ja gets two years: what three wires agree on, and what they don't

US strikes Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island after IRGC mine-preparations in Strait of Hormuz

IRGC claims drone kill and tanker fire in Hormuz as Trump says 'we already got' the strait

Iran's IRGC claims two strikes in the Strait of Hormuz within an hour: a drone and a tanker on fire

Larak hit, Jordan hit back: a single signalling exchange, twelve hours apart on the clock

The Larak strike, then the salvo: re-reading 30 August's Iran–US–Jordan sequence

US strikes two Iranian launchers on Larak Island in first military action in a month

US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak Island as Treasury opens the sanctions spigot

US strike on Larak Island and Iran's missile response: a corridor at flashpoint

US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak Island as Strait of Hormuz confrontation escalates

'US strikes on Larak Island: Iran vows retaliation as Hormuz crisis escalates'

US strikes IRGC launchers on Larak Island as Strait of Hormuz confrontation escalates

Trump frames SPR refill with Venezuelan crude as a 'gift'; the underlying deal is older than the post

Istanbul to host first committee session of the Türkiye-Saudi Arabia-Pakistan defense pact

A fiber-optic drone nearly clipped a Mi-17: the air war over Donetsk has changed register

One dead, five injured in shooting outside rave in northern Swiss town of Aarau

Yair Netanyahu extracted from Florida as Shin Bet cites threat

Six months into the Iran war, the messages keep flying

Settlers raid Qusra, set fire to farmland near Nablus as 90 percent arson claim resurfaces

Nepal pegs post-flood rebuild at $4–5bn as Chinese border crossing reopens

Russian strike on Bucha district warehouse kills Dmytrivka community head, at least 27 dead

Gunfire and explosions rock Niger's capital as junta cuts power in Niamey

Russia strikes a Kyiv warehouse; a single X post carries Moscow's UN-administration line

Israeli forces strike Houla, Haddatha and Kfar Shuba in southern Lebanon as ground vehicles enter Haddatha

Ukrainian drones strike Rostov region warehouses overnight, DNS blaze dominates

Gunfire in Niamey: a coup attempt, an isolated junta, and the next test for the Sahel

Six months into the Iran war, Gulf states layer new partnerships under the US umbrella

Trump loses hush-money venue bid; DOJ pursues USPS mail-ballot appeal in separate track

Russian drone salvo hits two Kyiv Oblast ammunition sites; ballistic warning open at 20:44 UTC

Three Trump-era courtroom and trade items land on the Reuters wire in a single afternoon

Israel carries out rare West Bank air strike on Jenin camp, then moves ground forces in

Israel's Gaza endgame stalls on a disarmament riddle

Fedorov accepts Italian defence-innovation brief, Il Foglio reports

Fedorov to advise Italy's Crosetto on defence innovation, Il Foglio reports

Harald V dies at 89 after a 35-year reign; Crown Prince Haakon succeeds immediately as King Haakon VIII

Middle East Eye reports Israeli expulsion orders over Gaza children's kites; only a headline, no Israeli confirmation in the thread

China's humanoid boom: state capital outruns the autonomy stack

Nepal orders rescuers to stand down as border floods kill at least 472

Bomb at Al-Hasakah's Palace of Justice: killed on one wire, injured on the other

Norway's King Harald dies at 89 after 35-year reign

Strait of Hormuz: CENTCOM says open, Tehran says it sets the terms

Bessent claims 130 million barrels rerouted, Iran denies plot report: Trump labels the Islamic Republic a 'failing nation'

Trump's economic war on Iran now runs through Beijing's banks

Trump calls Iran a 'failing nation' as Tehran denies alleged plot against his son

Trump renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America' in executive order, drawing Carney's rebuke

Trump Renames Lake Ontario as Lake America as Canada-US Trade Talks Collapse

Tehran sets Hormuz terms as Trump claims the waterway is 'in control'

Rezaei's evening package adds Strait of Hormuz framing alongside earlier blockade

Lindsay Clancy jury begins deliberations as defense invokes postpartum psychosis

Qatar and Iran put a Strait of Hormuz deal at the centre of Al-Thani's Tehran visit

Doha and Tehran sit down in Tehran, with a Hormuz corridor on the table

Glacier collapse kills hundreds on Nepal-Tibet border, with more than 1,300 still missing

Israeli demolitions and airstrikes push south Lebanon into another day of escalation

Israeli demolitions and artillery hit southern Lebanon border villages as US envoy presses Hezbollah on disarmament

The Strait of Hormuz, 27 August, and the two blockades that cannot both be true

Diplomats return, oil softens, munitions thin: three reads of the post-strike Iran picture

Yayoi Kusama, the artist who turned obsession into a global brand, dies at 97

Nepal-Tibet border floods leave at least 162 dead, more than a thousand unaccounted for; 53 Ukrainians among the missing

Ratcliffe in Moscow: reading the Telegram relay against its own evidence

Iran strikes Kurdish positions in Erbil with Fateh-110s and drones

Oman pulls back on Hormuz escorts as IRGC reportedly confronts Indian tanker

Six months into the US-Iran standoff, the scoreboard is oil, slots and sanctions

Trump signals no rush on Iran as Hormuz walkback and IRGC conditional collide

CIA chief Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence in Moscow but skipped Putin, Kremlin