Good morning. This is horizons, Middle East and Africa. Our top stories this morning.The US comes out strikes in the Strait of Hormuz in response to Iranian attacks on Navy destroyers, in an escalation that threatens the fragile ceasefire in place. President Trump threatens Tehran to agree to a deal fast. Asian stocks pull back from a record high, and crude oil rises as escalating tensions in the Middle East revived concerns over energy supplies.Testing the durability of the recent equity rally. And as poll ...

The smarter AI models become, the more vital they are for prosperity at home and geopolitical heft abroad. But the risks grow, too. Elites in both Beijing and Washington are unnerved by the rapid advance of the technology https://t.co/sNjsiDu2qGIllustration: Alberto Miranda https://t.co/G6HSnRPntG ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The U.S.S. Bush carrier group sailed around Africa rather than going through the Bab, to avoid the high costs of munitions that would have had to have been expended to get through.Commercial ships of U.S., Israeli, and anti-Houthi European countries also take the long way around Africa rather than going through the Bab. They've been doing this for over two years now, and until any of these countries decide to stop being enemies to Iran and the Houthis it will continue. The Houthis ...

RT THE ISLANDER (@IslanderWORLD)🇮🇷🇺🇸 Three American destroyers just took a second brutal pounding in the Strait of Hormuz.The USS Truxtun, USS Mason, and USS Rafael Peralta came under what U.S. officials themselves called a fiercer, more sustained Iranian assault than the barrage they faced only hours earlier. Missiles, drones, and swarms of fast attack boats closed in tight enough that the warships had to unload everything they had — five inch naval guns, CIWS, Hellfire missiles from Apache helicopters, .5 ...

American forces responded to Iranian attacks on Navy destroyers as they were sailing in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, US Central Command said https://t.co/I4Hor0LTeK ...

Welcome to a new episode of Power Players with Brian Sazy. I am your host, Brian Sazy. Uh, and I it is a real honor to welcome in my next guest.That is former Secretary of Defense Dr. . Mark Esper. Uh, doctor, good to see you here.I know these are busy days. Thank you for making time for me. I appreciate it.>> Sure thing, Brian. Great to be here with you and your audience. >> Yeah.No, very, very, very appreciated. Um, I'm trying to I was trying to think like where do I actually begin this. And let me just c ...

Professor Jiang predicted Trump would win the election, America would go to war with Iran, and that the United States would lose that war. Now he reveals why he believes this conflict could reshape the entire world order! Professor Jiang is a geopolitical analyst, writer, and host of the YouTube channel 'Predictive History', who uses history, geography, economics, and game theory to explain where global conflicts may be heading next. Through his Substack, he provides geopolitical analysis of current events ...

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Turkey is taking a significant step toward joining the global military elite by testing a missile that would put much of Europe and the Middle East within reach and eventually lead to the launch of real-time intelligence satellites. https://t.co/Ufls4oI2zY ...

The US is ramping up pressure on allies in Iraq and Lebanon to neuter Tehran-linked proxies https://t.co/qpvEoAsLI7 ...