The session was moderated by Major General ANM Muniruzzaman (Retd.), President, BIPSS. In his opening remarks, he highlighted the growing importance of sub-border warfare in today’s geopolitical landscape, where cyber operations, economic coercion, disinformation campaigns and attacks on critical infrastructure are increasingly serving as means of governance without crossing the bounds of conventional warfare. Emphasizing […]
“Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran continue at a rapid pace,” Trump posted on social media. Weeks of indirect US-Iran talks, threats and airstrikes have failed to end the war or reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping channel for the Gulf’s oil and gas. The latest US-Iranian firing overnight came as Israel […]
A separate ceasefire agreed between Israel and Lebanon was announced on Friday and also includes Hezbollah, whose rocket attacks in support of Iran dragged Lebanon into the war. Israel and Lebanon, which have no diplomatic ties, will hold a second round of talks in Washington on Thursday, a State Department official told AFP. Sporadic violence […]
Iran has responded to the 15-point US plan to end the war through unnamed intermediaries and is now waiting for Washington’s response, news agency Tasnim reported on Thursday. According to Pakistani officials, the exact content of the US plan communicated to Iran through Pakistan is not officially known. “Iran’s response to the 15 points proposed […]
History will bear witness to how a nation, through determination, unity and solidarity, was able to resist even overwhelming global pressure. Therefore, it is the responsibility of thinkers, free-thinking individuals, writers and artists around the world not to remain silent in the face of human suffering and to protect truth, justice and human dignity through […]
Selim Reyhan, executive director of the private research institute South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), told Prothom Alo that the increase in food inflation is quite worrying. If the Middle East crisis prolongs, it will affect the country’s imports, which may increase inflation. Selim Reyhan also said that compared to neighboring countries, we have […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to chair an emergency meeting on Monday on the economic fallout from the war in Iran, with Finance Minister Rachel Reeves and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey attending, the government said. Investors are bracing for another stormy week in financial markets after Iran said it would attack […]
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing US officials, that although neither of the two ballistic missiles hit their targets, the launch shows Tehran has longer-range missiles than previously thought. The Pentagon declined to comment. One missile failed in flight and the other was hit by an interceptor fired from a US warship, the […]
The United States has historically been reluctant to transfer its most sophisticated technologies to Arab countries in order to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge. And the entire relationship is designed to promote interoperability, the ability to fight alongside U.S. forces, rather than an independent strategic capability. So, what are the options for the Gulf countries […]
A senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday in protest of the US-Israeli war against Iran, saying there is no imminent threat to the United States from the Islamic Republic. “I cannot in good conscience support an ongoing war in Iran,” Joseph Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), said in his resignation letter […]
But perhaps the biggest threat to travel is the war in the Middle East. “If this war continues into April, it will be the main talking point in the Trump-Xi meeting,” Benjamin Ho, an assistant professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told AFP. China has condemned the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which […]