Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, reflects on the internal and external pressures shaping Iran’s future — from ...

Chinese carmakers export new cars as used after registering them in China, artificially inflating the sales numbers to make ...

Winston Churchill once described watching the inner workings of the USSR’s Marxists as “bulldogs fighting under a carpet.” ...

Rare earth shipment delays raise concerns of a US-China trade truce collapse and global supply disruptions. Trump seen ...

A prominent adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has already called for the closure of the Strait. A ...

Senior Israeli officials have suggested that their ongoing military campaign against Iran could potentially topple the regime ...

The Middle East is a melting pot of ­imperialist tensions. Global ­rivalries have combined with regional power struggles to ...

PALSP Chairman Javed Iqbal Malik stated that the current protection level of 53% for the steel sector would fall to 10% by ...

Iran’s economy was already collapsing before the war. With oil exports halted, inflation surging, Tehran is running out of ...

The national budget for 2026 may be the first big casualty if Parliament is again dissolved. Read more at straitstimes.com.

THERE is an upsurge in military expenditure all over the world which is spearheaded by the upsurge in Europe. Of course there are different estimates of military expenditure, depending on what one ...

Global sales of personal luxury goods are ”slowing down but not collapsing,” according to a Bain & Co. consultancy study ...