Without active and continuous deterrence, ISIS forces may look to take advantage of the deteriorating security and governance situation in areas formerly under their control. After the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, Iraq faced the challenge of rebuilding the state first and foremost, along with political, economic, and …

Key Points – Israel’s F-16I “Sufa” (Storm) multi-role fighters likely played a crucial role in “Operation Rising Lion,” the massive air assault on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure that began on June 12th. -Flying alongside F-35I and F-15I jets, the F-16Is surely launched follow-on strikes against hardened targets like the Natanz enrichment …

Hamas has recalled about 7,000 members of its security forces to reassert control over areas of Gaza recently vacated by Israeli troops, according to local sources. The Palestinian group also appointed five new governors all with military backgrounds, some of whom previously commanded brigades in its armed wing. The mobilisation …

Toplines US President Donald Trump’s October 17 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly ended with Trump supporting a ceasefire on the current frontlines and not Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands that Ukraine cede territory in Donetsk Oblast to Russia. Western reporting, citing sources with knowledge of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, …

Toplines A senior Iranian official suggested in an interview with Nour News on October 13 that the Iranian regime is unable to develop a long-term strategy because it continues to suffer from shock and paralysis after the Israel-Iran War.[1] Nour News interviewed Iranian Deputy Vice President for Strategic Affairs Ali …

With negotiations underway for Tomahawk missile delivery to Ukraine, the first targets have been publicly confirmed. The Yelabuga Shahed factory – producing thousands of kamikaze drones – tops the list, as Ukraine plans strikes on over 1,600 military targets deep inside Russian territory. Today, there are important updates from Ukraine. …

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas announced that a delegation from the movement’s leadership met with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Director İbrahim Kalın to discuss the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and ways to deliver humanitarian aid to the Strip. In a …

“We are charting something like the fever curve of society,” journalism professor Thomas Hestermann said of his new study, “Crime and Migration: Perception in German Media,” which examined how the nationality and ethnicity of crime suspects has been reported since 2007. Hestermann’s team at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences …

In 1898, as the United Kingdom joined other powers in carving up the once mighty Qing empire, British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury warned a London audience that the world was dividing into “living” and “dying” nations. The living were the rising powers of the industrial age—states with growing populations, transformative …

For the fourth time since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House, his position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine has his European counterparts in a state of shocked consternation. What’s striking this time around is that it hasn’t been accompanied by the previous string of bravado-laced statements …