Toplines Hamas agreed to a ceasefire with Israel on October 3 but called for negotiating other aspects of US President Donald Trump’s plan for peace in the Gaza Strip. Trump proposed a 20-point plan to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 29 that laid out a broad vision for …

On 4 October, opera singer Paata Burchuladze stood before tens of thousands in Tbilisi’s Freedom Square and issued an ultimatum: Georgia’s government had 24 hours to surrender power. By dawn 5 October, security forces arrested all five protest organizers—Burchuladze, Irakli Nadiradze, Murtaz Zodelava, Paata Manjgaladze, and Lasha Beridze. By 6 …

Exclusive: Declassified captures first footage of an American spy plane taking off from a Royal Air Force base bound for Gaza. We are standing on a sand dune in the pitch dark listening to the Mediterranean crash onto Lady’s Mile beach. The last Cypriot fisherman went home about an hour …

In their discussions about ending the war in Ukraine, Americans and Europeans are increasingly focused on providing Kyiv with security guarantees. After over a decade of conflict with Russia, including four years of all-out war, Ukraine understandably does not trust Moscow to abide by any cease-fire. Before Kyiv signs one, …

After Two Years of Growing Isolation and Endless War, an Alternative Future Is Possible Two years after the worst attack on Israel in its history, the country stands at a crossroads. Israel is not a failed state. It is a great state with a failed government. Its foundations remain strong. …

It is now “harder” for Ukraine’s Patriot air defenses to intercept incoming Russian ballistic missiles, a Ukrainian military spokesperson has said. “It is more difficult to counter missiles flying on a quasi-ballistic trajectory,” Yuriy Ignat, a spokesperson for Kyiv’s air force, told the country’s national rolling news on Sunday. A …

Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on …

With the end of June’s Twelve-Day War between Iran, Israel, and the United States, the Israeli leadership began to celebrate the achievements of the war, and the “victory” it claimed over Tehran. Senior Israeli security officials claimed that Iran was no longer a nuclear threshold state, that it could not …

Exclusive: Moog in Wolverhampton was targeted by pro-Palestine activists in August. We can now reveal the company has been exporting aircraft components to Israel’s ministry of defence. On 26 August, four activists from the group ‘Palestinian Martyrs for Justice’ crashed through the gates of a factory in Wolverhampton and climbed …

Abstract The evolving threat of terrorism and political violence in the United States cannot be understood without observing technological change, institutional memory, and societal resilience. Recent discussions underscore five urgent considerations: (1) sustaining lessons from two decades of counterterrorism, (2) preparing for AI and drone-enabled battlefields, (3) confronting the misuse …