It’s March 4 in Baghdad. The operations room at the command headquarters of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) is bustling. Faces are tired and tense, eyes darting between screens connected to thermal cameras deployed across operational sectors and tablets displaying military maps. It is 9:00pm, and all indications suggest …

Israeli forces have attempted to assassinate a senior Hamas leader Ali al-Amoudi in Gaza, Israeli media reported on Saturday. The attacks took place on Friday evening, when Israeli airstrikes killed five Palestinians, including four women and a child, though al-Amoudi’s fate remains unclear. Hamas has not issued a statement acknowledging …

The Special Court verdict has exposed the imbalance between the justice demanded of Kosovo and Serbia’s refusal to confront its own wartime crimes. On the day Hashim Thaçi was convicted, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić went before the cameras to attack reactions from Prishtina and Tirana. “And here I thought they …