My latest piece for the online magazine ‘Syria in Transition’ is reprinted below. Based on visits to the Sayyida Zaynab shrine in the Damascus area, the piece examines what the shrine’s status tells us about the general situation of Syria’s Twelver Shia minority. The last banner of ZaynabSyria’s Shia find …

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Le terrorisme utile est armé par des mandataires. Lorsqu’il est gênant, on lui envoie des drones. Quand il cesse, il atteste du succès. Quand il resurgit, il fournit l’argument pour tout recommencer. Comment la CIA, le MI6 et le Mossad ont transformé le djihadisme en un instrument d’État. L’État islamique …

The so-called “Global Alliance for the implementation of the Two-State Solution” — co-chaired by the EU, Saudi Arabia, and Norway, with active European partners including the increasingly Israel-critical Netherlands, and openly Israel-hostile states such as Belgium, Ireland, Spain, and France — is not a peace project. It is a coordinated …

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute are publishing daily updates to provide analysis on the war with Iran. The updates focus on US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran and the Axis of Resistance’s response to …

Toplines The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced the terms for Russia’s unilaterally-declared May 9 Victory Day ceasefire. The Russian MoD stated on May 7 that Russia will unilaterally enact a Victory Day ceasefire starting at midnight local time on May 8 to midnight on the morning of May 10.[1] …

Les États-Unis se trouvent à un tournant où deux choix s’offrent à eux. Ils peuvent soit opérer une transition pour passer du statut d’Hégémon mondial à celui d’un pays prospère et pacifique collaborant d’égal à égal avec toutes les autres nations, soit s’obstiner à rester un empire en faillite et …

Greatest threat from Middle East emanates from Iran, White House counter-terrorism strategy states The White House 2026 counter-terrorism strategy has identified Islamist extremist groups, Latin American “narco-terrorists” and left-wing agitators as the biggest threats to the US.

L’épisode précédent s’est achevé sur une question ouverte : quels récits sont à la hauteur de ce moment ? Quelles visions permettront de traverser le basculement civilisationnel en cours sans reproduire les logiques de possession qui ont conduit aux impasses actuelles ? Cette question n’est pas abstraite. Elle se joue, …

Britain’s national media fails to recognise the influence – and even the existence – of an Israel lobby, our new media analysis shows. Declassified researched two years of reporting by seven British media outlets and found only 16 mentions of the phrase Israel lobby without speech marks. Nearly all those …