A fragile US-Iran ceasefire faces collapse as strategic failures, regional strikes, and unresolved geopolitical tensions threaten renewed warfare.

Former Ambassador Tariq Karim urges Bangladesh to reassess Iranian relations and build internal resilience amid regional shifts.

What is a solution for Bangladesh’s oil crisis and Eastern Refinery facing a production crisis?

US containment strategies risk strategic inversion, unintentionally accelerating global production networks that reinforce China’s deep industrial centrality.

Beyond the immediate battlefield, war inflicts enduring damage on cultural identity, ecological health, and global economic stability.

Donald Trump escalates threats against Iran, sparking global fears of nuclear war and devastating regional conflict.

From Trump’s expletives to Columbus’s ghost, MAGA’s crusade unmasks a hollow West clashing with its own myths.

International labour migration is a key pillar of Bangladesh’s economy, with most workers going to the Gulf region.

The political transition in Bangladesh has ushered in a new era of hope, presenting a unique opportunity to rethink and reformulate several aspects of statecraft.

Described as "unbeatable" in defeat and "unbearable" in victory, Benjamin Netanyahu’s autobiography reveals the rigid historical convictions and special-forces discipline of Israel’s longest-serving leader.

As the United States signals a potential ground invasion targeting Iran's energy sector, Pakistan has taken on a precarious role as a key mediator in an attempt to prevent a wider regional war and global economic collapse.

The Iran conflict underscores the inadequacy of conventional strategic frameworks, revealing the indeterminacy, oscillation, and systemic interdependence that define contemporary warfare.

Iran has followed the Chinese model as one can see from its defiance of crippling sanctions to build excellent healthcare, education and nuclear-free defence that has shocked the world.

In the moments when the maps of the world shake, the danger of war is not only in the missiles, but in the minds that run them, in the language that justifies them,

There never was an international system holding it all together. We’re in a more turbulent phase, where Russia has been bogged down in a war in the backyard, and China is in economic warfare with the US. So the Middle East is really the place where the battle is happening, because a project like Israel is showing it is a strong, destabilising force that can be used by the US empire. Israel can be a ruthless criminal willing to do anything, for their colonial project to survive.

Today, however, the global economy is increasingly multipolar. Manufacturing capacity, technological development, and financial influence are distributed across several major centres rather than concentrated within a single hegemonic order.

Over the past two weeks, there have been more questions about Bangladesh’s energy situation than about any other topic in recent memory.

In the game of strategic balancing, Bangladesh is now navigating between securing energy supplies and maintaining geopolitical balance.

Bangladesh spends a lot of energy explaining itself, to investors, multilateral lenders, and regional partners.

Veteran diplomat, M Humayun Kabir, explains the current escalation of war in the Middle East and the ramifications for Bangladesh, in an exclusive interview with Ramisa Rob, Geopolitical Insights Editor at The Daily Star