United States officials met Houthi representatives at the US embassy in the Omani capital, Muscat, over the weekend after the Iran-aligned movement seized thousands of square kilometres of territory in just a few days. With strategically important islands and large stretches of Yemen’s Red Sea coast now under Houthi control, the group has tightened its…

Several people have reportedly been killed in an explosion at a mosque near a police complex in northwest Pakistan. Authorities say an explosives-laden vehicle rammed the complex’s gate before exploding, followed by gunfire and a second suicide blast. Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026 Share Deadly blast hits mosque at Pakistan police complex on…

In international politics, it is often assumed that wars end when the fighting becomes unbearable and the parties turn to diplomacy. But diplomacy requires interlocutors — figures with the standing to negotiate and the authority to deliver. Remove them, and a war loses not only its potential mediators but the very possibility of a settlement….