These rules have developed over centuries as states sought to regulate the conduct of conflict at sea while still allowing navies to operate effectively.
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Most civilians in Iran have no idea when and where US and Israeli bombs will fall.
Mark Carney’s support for the U.S.-Israel war against Iran seems hypocritical, but it’s consistent with Canada’s longstanding support for a rules-based order that only applies when convenient.
The U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran raise uncomfortable questions about whether the post-1945 rules-based order still constrains the use of force by major powers.
Australia gets half its urea – a crucial nitrogen fertiliser – from countries now impacted by the war. But research suggests higher food prices aren’t a given.
Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.
The conflict gets more dangerous by the day.
The war between the US, Israel and Iran appears to be spreading beyond the Middle East.
Simon Mabon talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how the evolution of the relationship between Iran and its Gulf neighbours.
Pedro Sánchez has made the Spanish government’s opposition abundantly clear.
A majority of Americans are against the war, according to a new poll. This has implications for the mid-term elections in November.
Fomenting a revolution when you have little ability to control how events play out on the ground can lead to unfavourable outcomes.
Ali Khamenei’s son is known less for speeches or religious authority than for his influence and the networks he’s built behind the scenes.
Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.
The Russian leader will be angry at the assault on a Russian ally, but American involvement in a conflict in the Middle East for now will play to his advantage in Ukraine.
In 2003, Labor was strongly against the Iraq war. But more than 20 years later and in power, Albanese has had to do a different sort of political calculus.
Torpedoes are hard to stop – and harder to see coming.
Conflict in the Middle East has led to long petrol queues in Australia. Going electric ends reliance on fuel imports – but will you pay back the EV premium?
Hezbollah’s entry into the current war followed the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The group has long been aligned with the Islamic Republic.
Struck by the success of large-scale, low-cost drone attacks, the US made covert efforts to capture Iranian Shahed-136s for technical analysis.
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