Four Bangladeshi seafarers escaped injury after their tanker Kairos caught fire in the Black Sea following an apparent attack on vessels that carry Russian oil.
Two scholars told the Bay of Bengal Conversation 2025 in Dhaka that Western governments have lost moral credibility on human rights after Israel’s war in Gaza, arguing that the conflict has accelerated a political shift across the Global South and created new constraints on academic freedom in the United States. The conference was hosted by […]
War has shaped human history, but the motivations behind it are varied. Anthropologists and evolutionary scientists argue that the roots of war lie in a mix of survival strategies, social pressures, and cultural practices. The following nine reasons highlight why groups often go to war, based on research into both our evolutionary past and human […]
War is often seen as a defining feature of human history, but its origins remain hotly debated. Some scholars argue that warfare is deeply rooted in our evolutionary past, while others claim it is a recent by-product of agriculture and complex societies. At the center of this debate lies a crucial question: why do men […]
An AI-generated music video featuring President Donald Trump dancing with Jeffrey Epstein has drawn widespread attention online for its controversial imagery and provocative lyrics referencing Epstein’s criminal history and Trump’s past association with him.
The centuries-old maxim, “War is deception,” (al-harb khudʿa) attributed to Prophet Muhammad proved prescient when Israel launched a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear and military sites in early June 2025. With tensions already high over Tehran’s uranium enrichment program and stalled negotiations in Oman, what appeared as routine diplomacy concealed a carefully orchestrated stratagem in […]
Iran’s calibrated strikes in April and October 2024 were meant to signal deterrence, not war. Yet by revealing both the reach and the restraint of its missiles and drones, Tehran may have inadvertently provided Israeli planners with a roadmap for a far more devastating offensive.
