Middle Orient

Panique dans le sud de la Syrie : Israël étend son occupation à toute la région

L’armée israélienne continue de bombarder la Syrie et d’attaquer ce qui reste de l’infrastructure militaire de l’ancien gouvernement. L’armée israélienne a étendu son occupation du sud de la Syrie le 9 février, poursuivant sa campagne de destruction des infrastructures appartenant à l’ancienne Armée arabe syrienne (AAS).

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Cut off one head and three others grow – Hezbollah’s Syrian Hub

New information has arisen about the way in which Hezbollah’s military and criminal operations in Syria is using its terrorist organization’s financial network. The modus operandi of this network brings together three elements of Hezbollah’s activity in Syria: weapon smuggling, drug trafficking operations and financing which make use of the …

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Iran Update, February 7, 2025

Information Cutoff: 2:00 pm ET The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) publish the Iran Update, which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. Click here to see …

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Rising Tensions Could Push Iran And Trump Toward A New Deal Or Conflict – Analysis

Regional Setbacks: Iran’s influence in the Middle East suffered major blows. Israel attacked its embassy in Damascus, and key allies Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Assad regime in Syria faced defeats, weakening Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.” (Hamas, though, has regrouped, taking some of the sting out of …

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Three Decades Of Baltic Military Cooperation And The Way Ahead – Analysis

It is well known that the three Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, are distinct yet share many similarities. They are comparable in size and have similar social, political, and economic development. They are situated in similar geostrategic positions within the same military operational theatre. For this reason, questions have …

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Iran Update, February 8, 2025

Information Cutoff: 2:00pm ET The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) publish the Iran Update, which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. Click here to see CTP …

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Overthrow Of Syria’s Assad Echoes Across Post-Soviet Space, Worrying Moscow – Analysis

The effects of the overthrow of the Kremlin’s Syrian client Bashar al-Assad on Russian influence in the Middle East and Africa has become a hot topic of conversation abroad. So far, relatively little attention has been given to what is likely to prove to be an even more important result …

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Send them to hell. Why talk of mass deportation of Palestinians is hindering the search for a settlement to the conflict

US President Donald Trump and his team are seriously proposing to deport two million Gazans to neighboring Middle Eastern countries or even to Indonesia for the time needed to rebuild the war-torn region. Although the likelihood of these plans coming to fruition is extremely low (none of the proposed countries …

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The Real Estate of Empire: How Colonial Gentrification Fuels Trump’s Gaza Plan

Trump, in positioning himself as both a political leader and a real estate mogul, offers a disturbing vision of the future in which state power is wielded to clear land for private enterprise. U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest proposal concerning the future of Gaza has sent shockwaves throughout the international …

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Netanyahu wants to strike Iran’s nuclear sites – why Trump might let him

Israel’s PM is expected to use the high-stakes meeting to secure a commitment from the US to co-operate with it on future military attacks on Iran Benjamin Netanyahu will seek Donald Trump’s support for a joint Israeli-US attack on Iran’s nuclear sites in return for maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza …

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