Explainer

Explainer

A coast guard boat of the Venezuelan Navy operates off the Caribbean coast on the day Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro says that his country would deploy military, police and civilian defenses at 284 "battlefront" locations across the country, amid heightened tensions with the US, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, September 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Hernandez/File Photo/File Photo

How could Venezuela's military respond to a US attack?

Trump has repeatedly said US strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, which have killed more than 80 people, could develop into land action in the South American country

An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, October 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer

How do Pakistan and Taliban Afghan militaries stack up as tensions flare?

Representational image. Photo: Unsplash

What is the National Equipment Identity Register (NEIR)?

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a phone call with US President Donald Trump to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, including the ongoing Israeli military operations against Iran. Photo: SPA/File Photo via Arab News

From Khashoggi to Duterte: Examining Trump’s global human rights record

Illustration: TBS

How rising debt-servicing threatens Bangladesh’s economy, and the way forward

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva talks with Sidi Ould Tah, President of the African Development Bank, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30), in Belem, Brazil, November 5, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Anderson Coelho

Why is COP30 pushing the World Bank and other lenders to reform? ​

A combined image shows Tim Davie, who stepped down as BBC director general (left), and Deborah Turness, the corporation’s former head of news. Photo: Reuters/X/BBC

BBC crisis: What caused it and what happens next?

Designed by G Val Myer and built in 1932, Broadcasting House is the BBC’s famous HQ, and a symbol of its radio broadcasting. Photo: BBC

How the BBC began: From radio experiment to global broadcaster

Signage is seen at BBC Broadcasting House offices and recording studios, London, Britain, May 21, 2021. File Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville

What led to the unprecedented resignations at the BBC?

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other delegates attending the Belem Climate Summit ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) raise hands as they pose for a family photo, in Belem, Brazil, November 7, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado

What is the COP30 climate summit, and why does it matter?

What's in the draft regulations for e-money issuers in Bangladesh?

What's in the draft regulations for e-money issuers in Bangladesh?

US President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Finland's President Alexander Stubb (not pictured), in the Oval office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, October 9, 2025. File Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Here is a timeline of Trump's trade war with China in 2025

Attendees at the second Pan African Conference, Brussels, August 31 to September 2 1921. Photo: Unknown author - Pan-Africanism, Africana Age, NYPL exhibtion http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/photos/panafricanism/1953714.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56718666

The Pan-African Congress and its role in African liberation