Au Mali, les combats ont repris entre l’armée appuyée par Wagner et une coalition de groupes armés signataires de l’accord de paix de 2015, mettant en péril le processus de paix. Ibrahim Maïga et Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim expliquent les raisons de ces affrontements et ce que les deux belligérants ont …
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The Gaza War Reverberates Across the Middle East
As war rages in Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to escalate, causing grievous harm to civilians and threatening stability across the Middle East. Crisis Group experts offer a 360-degree view of how various capitals in the region view this crisis and their own interests therein. The 7 October attack by …
Read More »Five Questions About Gaza
As the conflict in the territory continues, getting to know more about likely trajectories has become a necessity. A day after the horrific attacks of October 7, I was not only shocked but also profoundly unsure about what would happen next. Some things were already clear. Immediately, the political actors …
Read More »Should the U.S. Send Naval Hospital Ships to Treat Palestinian Children?
Michael Rose, an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, calls for the U.S. to deploy one or both U.S. Navy hospital ships to the coast of Gaza to treat Palestinian children ages 15 and under. I always welcome any attempt at a constructive …
Read More »Les Lituaniens ne sont pas satisfaits du déploiement d’une brigade allemande
Depuis que le ministre allemand de la Défense, Boris Pistorius, a annoncé la présence permanente de troupes en Lituanie dans le cadre d’un engagement bilatéral en juin de cette année, la difficulté du financement et du déploiement de la brigade sur une telle base suscite des inquiétudes. Il est prévu …
Read More »Lebanese Daily: Hundreds Of Hizbullah-Allied Amal Movement Operatives Deployed On Lebanon-Israel Border, Carrying Out Attacks On Israel
On November 11, 2023, Lebanon’s Shi’ite Amal Movement announced that one of its operatives, ‘Ali Jamil Al-Hajj Dawoud, had been targeted in an act of “direct aggression by the oppressive Israeli enemy” in the Rab El Thalathine village of southern Lebanon, leading to his “martyrdom” and the injury of two …
Read More »Turkey-Hamas Relations From 2004 To Today – $300 Million, A Hamas Center In Istanbul For Cyberattacks And Counterintelligence, And Many Treasury Department-Designated Nationals
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s close relations with Hamas, the public record of which goes back nearly 20 years, appear to have been largely unaffected by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. While there are rumors that Isma’il Haniyeh, who has since 2017 been chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, …
Read More »For Hezbollah, Timing Is the Essence
The party may escalate on the southern border with Israel, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will reach the level of bombing cities. The speech last week of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah left many in Lebanon and beyond relieved, as he defended his organization’s limited engagement in the Gaza …
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La «liberté», la «démocratie» et un «ordre fondé sur des règles» sont les principes que prétendent guider les gouvernements occidentaux autoproclamés «civilisés». Le soi-disant «leader du monde libre» affirme que son administration respecte le droit international humanitaire et s’oppose à toutes les formes de racisme et de discrimination. Cette rhétorique …
Read More »Destroying the “Mother of All Proxy Armies” in Ukraine
The Object of War From the moment in early April when Russian forces on the perimeter of Kiev began to withdraw to new positions in eastern Ukraine, western war propagandists have been trumpeting what they characterized as Russia’s “humiliating defeat”. As one who recognized as early as February 28th that …
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