Key TakeawaysThe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy attacked and likely redirected two vessels towards Iran on April 22, likely to enforce Iranian claims of sovereignty over the strait to disrupt global shipping and extract US concessions. The IRGC also may have redirected the two vessels in response to the …

The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S. aggression against Teheran, which deliberately overlooks the events of 1953, when a joint U.S.-British effort overthrew the then secular Iranian government in …

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) finds itself at a historic inflection point, not because it has suddenly chosen to rethink its strategic posture, but because the world it depended upon has begun to unravel in full view. For decades, the Gulf monarchies were embedded in a security architecture anchored in …

Over the course of six weeks of war between Iran, Israel, and the United States, Saudi Arabia’s restraint has perplexed some onlookers. After all, the war almost immediately spilled into the Persian Gulf. Iran’s retaliatory attacks on infrastructure in Gulf countries—and then Tehran’s closure and Washington’s subsequent blockade of the …

Cities and towns in northeastern Syria, particularly al-Hasakah and al-Qamishli, have seen a notable security escalation in recent days. It has included renewed security deployments on the streets, the spread of temporary checkpoints, tighter inspection procedures, field movements, and politically charged activities, with no official explanation from the Syrian Democratic …

Ilham Ahmed, Co-Chair of the Foreign Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, offered new details about the high-level meeting held in Damascus on April 15. The talks brought together Ahmed, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) General Commander Mazloum Abdi, and Interim Government President Ahmed al-Sharaa to …

Syria is once again confronting a surge of security and political turbulence, shaped by internal fragility and the accelerating storms of regional conflict. On Sunday, the Ministry of Interior announced that its security units had thwarted several attempts to destabilize the country and undermine public safety. The ministry pointed to …

Let us begin with the most basic question EU policymakers refuse to answer: to whom exactly do they intend to hand this Palestinian state? To the Palestinian Authority, widely viewed, even by its own people, as “irredeemably corrupt,” terrorist, repressive, and illegitimate, and committed to displacing Israel? Or to Hamas, …

Hungary’s long-serving leader, Viktor Orban, was dismissed on April 12 by an electorate fed up with his authoritarian, corrupt rule. But in neighbouring Romania, where over a million ethnic Hungarian voters live, members of this minority community turned out in force for Fidesz, with more than 83 per cent backing …

Information about the attempted crime emerged via a federal lawsuit filed in the US District Court of Maryland in March 2025. According to the lawsuit, the hackers offered to sell the FBI agent a database containing national ID numbers, names, birth dates, addresses and other personal details of Albanian citizens. …