In Syria’s fragile economy, where reconstruction could cost hundreds of billions, the fallout from regional conflict is rippling beyond the battlefield, threatening the country’s key economic bets.

A military watchdog has been inundated with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war on Iran.

US and Israeli officials invoked the 'Book of Revelation' to motivate the troops and frame the war on Iran as a divine battle to accelerate towards Armageddon or bring about the biblical end of times.

As Israeli-American strikes pounded Iran, Tehran retaliated by targeting Gulf states over their hosting of U.S. military bases, prompting urgent questions about why countries such as Turkiye, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, which host similar facilities, were spared.

As Iranian strikes expanded beyond U.S. bases in the Gulf and official threats of military retaliation mounted, questions intensified over whether the Gulf states might be drawn—against their will—into the fire of war.