Armed groups are terrorising Colombia’s border with Venezuela
On January 16th violence erupted in Catatumbo on Colombia’s border with Venezuela. Colombia’s oldest active guerrilla group, ...
Syria’s new rulers say they are keen to integrate foreign fighters
The mandi chicken, a Yemeni dish, in the Emad Eddin restaurant in Idlib is a favourite among Uyghur jihadists. On a recent af...
Iran’s alarming nuclear dash will soon test Donald Trump
“It would really be nice if that could be worked out without having to go that further step,” declared Donald Trump on Januar...
Hamas talks a big game but is in chaos
EVEN before the fighting stopped, Hamas was keen to show it had survived. Uniformed militants emerged from hiding hours after...
Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria
On January 29th cafés across Damascus were packed. Syrians, both recently returned exiles from Europe and Turkey and those wh...
Rwanda does a Putin in Congo
SOMETHING AWFUL is happening in Congo. A rebel group called M23 seized control of Goma, the biggest city in the east of the c...
The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama
The market reaction, when it came, was brutal. On January 27th, as investors realised just how good DeepSeek’s “v3” and “R1” ...
By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself
FOREIGN AID is easy to decry. Money is often wasted or stolen. Its benefits are hard to see. And giving money to foreigners m...
Milei, Modi, Trump:an anti-red-tape revolution is under way
IN HIS OWN inimitable style, President Donald Trump has identified something he dislikes and approached it with a wrecking-ba...
How to use “maximum pressure” to stop an Iranian bomb
AT HOME AND abroad, Iran is in trouble. In the space of less than a year, the country has lost one president, three allies (t...