pan-Arab / Global South
立場別 · 2 takes across the edition
Arabic-language coverage leads with the Yemen and Gaza figures, 18M and 77% acute food insecurity respectively, and the fertiliser spike from the [[hormuz-oil-supply-shock|Hormuz disruption]] as the mechanism linking the Iran war to grain-importing nations across the Middle East and North Africa.
“The Hormuz closure drove fertiliser prices up 31%, feeding directly into a hunger crisis that already stretched from Yemen to Gaza.”
Longread (12 June 2026) on the Siachen/Saltoro front a year after the 2025 truce: two armies dug in along the 110km Saltoro Ridge at 18,000–20,000ft, where pulmonary oedema, frostbite and avalanche, not enemy fire, kill most. Frames the glacier as the war the ceasefire never touched.
“On the world's highest battlefield, nature, not the enemy, has been the deadliest force; soldiers hold posts where the lack of oxygen alone can kill.”