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Strait of Hormuz is hosting gunboat diplomacy as US and Iran vie for most effective blockade

Islamabad has not evaporated, and positive messages are still being exchanged, but in the meantime the site of kinetic activity has switched from land to sea. Both sides are vying to prove they can enforce

Ships attacked in Strait of Hormuz. And, VA voters approve redistricting effort

security checkpost along a road temporarily closed near the Serena Hotel at the Red Zone area in Islamabad on April 20 ahead of anticipated U.S.-Iran peace talks. **Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images** Aamir Qureshi/AFP

Has the US accepted Iran’s demand to settle Hormuz first, nuclear later?

Islamabad, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif responded to Trump’s announcement of the pause in the operation to open the Strait of Hormuz, naming Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a partner

What we know about the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

measures in self-defence”, while not carrying out “any offensive military operations”. The statement suggested that Israel can also exercise this right “at any time, against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks”. “This shall

‘Iron brothers’: How China and Pakistan built an unlikely 75-year bond

Talks centered on the problem of the Red Chinese-Pakistani border. India was reported to be indignant over the Chinese-Pakistani conference at a time when Chinese Communist troops were still holding Indian border territory