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An initial agreement between the United States and Iran to extend their shaky ceasefire inched toward a formal signing despite questions Monday over the fate of Tehran’s nuclear program and an offensive by Israel in Lebanon that could prolong the fighting and scuttle the deal. The agreement signed electronically Sunday …

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Washington a voulu enchaîner le monde. Il s’est enchaîné lui-même dans une trajectoire inversée de ses propres ambitions. En géopolitique comme en histoire, il existe une loi implacable : le monde ne se plie pas aux désirs de ceux qui croient le posséder. L’histoire, depuis 1945, en est la démonstration …

The confrontation between Iran, Israel, and the United States may mark a strategic turning point in Middle Eastern geopolitics. As Tehran moves from a doctrine of survival to one of regional influence, the balance of power that has shaped the region for decades is being fundamentally reconfigured. Iran’s shift from …

Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday, June 14, that it carried out a series of simultaneous operations in cooperation with Iraq’s General Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, dismantling an organized international drug smuggling network. The ministry said in a statement on Facebook that the operation was carried out “as …

The key benchmark is whether armed groups in Iraq, regardless of loyalties or ideology, operate under the authority of the state rather than alongside it In an apparent step forward in longstanding plans to bring Iraq’s militias under state control, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pledged on 27 May to disband …

A cache of leaked internal documents from “Battalion 7,” a paramilitary formation stationed at the strategic Prophet Younis summit on Syria’s coast, offers more than a window into a single militia. Taken together, the files amount to a rare schematic of the irregular warfare architecture the Syrian regime engineered after …

Any Syrian contribution would likely take the form of stricter border controls to curb the movement of fighters across illegal crossings, along with intelligence sharing and logistical coordination—especially now that Syria has joined the U.S.-led international coalition, Ultra Syria writes. Recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump about Syria’s potential …

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues to expand in scope and complexity as all sides issue new red lines and Iran demands constraints on Israel on several regional fronts. President Trump is trying to deny his wartime partner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a veto over U.S. terms for a …

Key Takeaways Persistent internal disagreements remain among Iranian regime leaders over the concessions that the regime should accept in negotiations with the United States. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and his inner circle appear to continue to seek an agreement that meets Iranian maximalist demands …