pan-Arab / Global South

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.”