Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly “apologized” to his Qatari counterpart for violating the Gulf state’s sovereignty in Israel’s September 9 strike against Hamas leaders in Doha. The alleged apology took place in a September 29 phone call arranged by US President Donald J. Trump. If anyone needs to …

Avoiding a Civil-Military Crisis in the Age of Trump Why were U.S. military officers fretting about having to show up, on short notice, to a base in Quantico, Virginia, to hear a speech from the two civilians in the chain of command? “All hands” meetings like the one held this …

The countries of the Middle East increasingly see Israel as their new shared threat. Israel’s war in Gaza, its expansionist military policies, and its revisionist posture are reshaping the region in ways that few anticipated. Its September strike on Hamas’s political leaders in Qatar—the seventh country hit by Israel since …

Toplines Russia and Belarus may conduct special forces sabotage operations against critical infrastructure in Poland and launch additional drone incursions and blame Ukraine. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) baselessly claimed on September 30 that Ukraine is preparing to conduct a false flag attack against critical Polish infrastructure in order to …

After nearly two and a half years, a fragile but consequential agreement between Iraq’s federal government in Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, the seven major Oil Companies (IOC), and a local Kurdish oil company has resumed oil exports through the Iraqi-Turkey Pipeline (ITP) to the international market. …

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ISIS has been witnessing a new surge in its activity inside Syria since the change of the former regime in December 2024, taking advantage of the fragility of the transitional authority and the overlap of its structure with different factions. Despite intense international strikes, the group has been able to …

The province of Sweida witnessed a wide security escalation after clashes between Druze factions and Bedouin tribes, followed by a military intervention by the Syrian Interim Government, prompting Israel to carry out air strikes it considered a response to the violation of the principle of the “demilitarized zone” and its …