Le monde change très vite. L’année 2026 devrait être marquée par le retour des zones d’influence et la fin des Empires coloniaux. Surtout, elle verra le retour du droit international contre les règles que nous connaissions jusqu’à présent. Seuls ceux qui sont capables de comprendre ces évolutions et de s’y …
Read More »Spotlight on Terrorism: Hezbollah Lebanon and January 12-20, 2026
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Read More »From Blair to Kushner: Meet Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace” Members, Including an Israeli Businessman
US President Donald Trump has named former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as members of his so-called “Board of Peace”, a body which he says will oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza after two years of Israeli genocide. With Trump serving as …
Read More »A new settlement project led by a reserve soldier named after a farm in the heart of the West Bank
It is not the story of a farm or the story of a settler who loves agriculture in “Judea and Samaria”, but a focus that is cultivated in the heart of the West Bank to transform a weapon, a road and a dominance, under the cover of “holiness.” Thus began …
Read More »The Jihadis and the Turkish Elections
One of the unifying themes of the Sunni jihadi movement as it has developed over the past half-century has been the view that Western-style democracy is an affront to Islam. Even worse, it is a religion fundamentally incompatible with the faith, a version of polytheism (shirk) in which authority is …
Read More »Israel approves more than 750 new settler homes in occupied West Bank
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich lauds approvals as part of a ‘clear strategic move to strengthen settlement’ Israel has approved the construction of 764 houses in three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday. The decision is likely to stoke tensions in the …
Read More »Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 18, 2026
Toplines Russian forces are reportedly preparing to conduct long-range strikes against substations powering Ukraine’s nuclear power plants. Ukraine’s Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on January 17 that Russia is considering strikes on electricity transmission substations on which Ukrainian nuclear power plants depend to operate.[1] …
Read More »Iran Update, January 20, 2026
Toplines Syrian President Ahmed al Shara likely decided to temporarily halt the Syrian government offensive on Syrian Democratic Forces-held (SDF) territory in northeastern Syria after a phone call with US President Donald Trump on January 19.[1] Shara and SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi failed on January 19 to finalize a ceasefire …
Read More »Syria’s Interior Ministry arrests 81 members who escaped from al-Shaddadi Prison
Syria’s Ministry of Interior said an escape incident at al-Shaddadi Prison in the countryside of al-Hasakah Governorate (northeastern Syria) resulted in the escape of about 120 Islamic State (IS) members, adding that it had arrested 81 of them. Special Tasks units affiliated with the ministry began, immediately after entering al-Shaddadi …
Read More »Al-Sharaa-Abdi Meeting Fails, Army and SDF Mobilize
Syrian government forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are massing at the entrances to al-Hasakah city (northeastern Syria) after a meeting between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi failed on Monday, 19 January. Enab Baladi obtained information from sources familiar with the negotiations between the two …
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