Qatar Says US and Iran Concluded Indirect Talks in Doha

Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at Russia on Saturday, including at Moscow and St. Petersburg. The mass drone salvo was launched as a major international event was wrapping up in St. Petersburg.  The St. Petersburg government ordered residents to shelter in place on Saturday amid a Ukraine drone attack. The city’s mayor reported that three […]

US Africa Command announced in a press release that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia on Sunday, March 8, the first known US strike in the country since the day the US and Israel launched the war with Iran. AFRICOM said that the airstrike targeted the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region about […]

Key Events This Week: Warsh Nomination Hearing, Retail Sales, Fed Blackout, Earnings As the war in Iran enters its 8th week, Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid says that recent developments can be framed in two ways: either five steps forward towards peace and three back (seems more apt than three and two), or as evidence that the two sides remain far enough apart that a lasting deal will be extremely hard to achieve and markets have become far too optimistic. Reid leans more towards the former, but the comparison with recent history...