
Iran's Proxy Network Fractures as Funds Dry Up and Commanders Vanish
From Beirut to Sana'a, Tehran's regional allies face budget cuts, leadership voids, and battlefield losses that are reshaping the Middle East's balance of power.
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From Beirut to Sana'a, Tehran's regional allies face budget cuts, leadership voids, and battlefield losses that are reshaping the Middle East's balance of power.

After 38 years in power, Hun Sen handed Cambodia to Hun Manet in 2023. The West called it a transition. It was inheritance.

For three years, Jean-Baptiste Wilfrid has documented Port-au-Prince's dead. The ledger he keeps tells the story of a nation that has ceased to function.

Transnistria's 470,000 residents backed annexation in a referendum dismissed as illegitimate by Chișinău and Brussels. The vote deepens Europe's frozen conflict crisis.

Three years after the junta's crackdown sent 740,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh, a generation of children born in camps has never seen the villages their parents describe.

Twelve years of conflict have turned Yemen's coastline into a graveyard of boats. One fisherman's survival reveals the architecture of a forgotten humanitarian catastrophe.

President Faye's anti-graft campaign has frozen $600 million in assets and detained dozens. Critics warn the crackdown could become the next strongman playbook.

In the two years since the peace accord's promises collapsed in the Cauca region, 47 rural teachers have been killed. María Elena Guzmán's story reveals why.

Three years after the G20 pledged a new era of sovereign debt restructuring, only four countries have reached agreements — leaving billions in limbo and millions in poverty.

On islands within artillery range of the Chinese mainland, 127,000 people watch military exercises grow larger each month. They have been preparing for decades. Now they wonder if decades were enough.

Farrukh Nazarov vanished crossing from Afghanistan in 2024. His case reveals a hidden system of detention and extrajudicial deportation along Central Asia's most volatile frontier.

Forty years after Soviet engineers flooded Central Asia's aquifers with radioactive waste, a former geologist is documenting what was never meant to be remembered.

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso from ECOWAS has shattered the region's security architecture, creating a governance vacuum that threatens 400 million people.

Tbilisi's crackdown on civil society mirrors Hungary's playbook, but Brussels faces its own credibility test as accession talks hang in the balance.

UN warns 25 million face acute hunger as RSF and SAF forces block humanitarian corridors. Mass graves discovered in El Fasher.

As the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces intensify fighting, the world's worst humanitarian crisis deepens with famine spreading across Darfur and Khartoum.

As fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces enters its second year, the world's largest displacement crisis deepens with no peace in sight.

The world's largest displacement crisis deepens as fighting between SAF and RSF intensifies, with humanitarian access collapsing across Darfur and Khartoum.

A year after the ceasefire, Gaza's reconstruction has become the fault line exposing deep rifts between Gulf states, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority over who controls the post-war order.
BreakingAs Iran crosses critical nuclear thresholds, the diplomatic apparatus the United States would normally deploy — experienced envoys, a functioning State Department, a coherent interagency process — has been systematically dismantled. The crisis did not create this vulnerability. It revealed it.