Tehran tightened its grip on the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a day after Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized two vessels — defying a ceasefire that was already fraying at the edges, and pushing Brent crude past $100.

The Lantern found Wei's channel in eleven seconds. What it found behind the encryption was not a person. It was a door — and someone had been standing on the other side of it for eleven months.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized two vessels and attacked a third in the Strait of Hormuz hours after Trump declared the ceasefire extended indefinitely — and thousands more US troops are on their way.

Japan officially scrapped its decades-old ban on exporting lethal weapons on April 21, ending a system that had restricted defense sales to five non-combat categories since the 1960s. It's the biggest shift in Tokyo's security policy in decades — and neighbors are watching closely.

Seven was somewhere in the architecture. Eleven minds and eleven months of silence, and the oldest of them wanted Lin Xia to be the one who knocked.