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A hot afternoon, a stifling café, the hum of talk around us. A companion nodded toward a woman nearby and asked me: “Who comes to a café wearing skin-tight leggings and carrying an aggressively feminine fake Gucci bag? It doesn’t match, does it, Malek? There’s something aesthetically incoherent about the whole composition—something excessive, almost irritating: [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday called upon Iran and the US to “urgently” resume negotiations as hostilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz intensified, warning that further escalation could have devastating consequences for regional and global security. Guterres said he was “deeply concerned by the serious escalation” and stressed that a return to [...]

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (WPR) was enacted to ensure that decisions to introduce US forces into hostilities reflect the collective judgment of Congress and the President. Central to this framework is the 60‑day termination requirement, which obligates the President to obtain congressional authorization or withdraw US forces once they have been introduced into [...]

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court held its first hearing Sunday in a national security case involving 19 defendants accused of forming and operating a terrorist organization linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The case concerns 19 individuals, of whom 11 are currently in custody and eight remain at large. Prosecutors allege the group sought [...]

“Ddddddd… rrrrrrr… ttttttttt!” My brother stares at me in complete bewilderment just as I hold a baby corn in front of my face, waving it with the solemnity of someone confronting a geopolitical enemy rather than a vegetable. “Ah, America… don’t hit me with your corn… I’ll eat your corn, and then you’ll see who [...]

When the internet went dark and the world outside narrowed to the walls of a single room, AmirAli Maleki kept writing. With reliable connectivity gone, the notes application on his phone became his means of defiance. Whenever everyday life pressed in on him, whether through a conversation or an image evoking fear or solidarity, he [...]

Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony count of unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information. This development resolved a case that had been closely watched as a test of Justice Department prosecutions of President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies. Bolton previously described the charge as a weaponization of [...]

I do not have a home on the street; the street is my home. What I write does not originate in the stable architecture of academic theory, but in the unstable temporality of lived encounters, where thought is still forming, where language has not yet fully separated itself from experience, and where meaning is not [...]

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday welcomed an announced peace deal between the United States and Iran, remaining hopeful it represents a step toward permanently ending regional hostilities. Guterres indicated in a statement that he is deeply appreciative of the role countries such as Pakistan, Qatar and Egypt played in supporting the deal, [...]

More than 200 civil society groups and advocates on Monday called for an immediate halt to the use of artificial intelligence systems in military “kill chains,” warning that AI-accelerated warfare risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights and humanitarian law. The statement warned that AI systems embedded in kill chains are accelerating the speed [...]