Abstract: The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December 2024 may have disrupted large-scale production of the illicit drug captagon, but the trade has, by no means, disappeared from the black market. Instead, a new, post-Assad Syria marks a shift in this illicit trade, from state monopoly over production …

The IDF’s strikes came after two Israeli soldiers were killed in a reported incident with Hamas terrorists in the southern city of Rafah. The IDF announced that it will begin re-enforcing the Gaza ceasefire on Sunday night after it carried out “a series of strikes” against Hamas targets in southern …

Russia might still fund some less ambitious infrastructure projects in its Far East-Arctic region to keep the economy hot after the war ends, help veterans find work, and encourage settlement there. Trump reacted positively to the proposal by Kirill Dmitriev, chief of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and envoy in …

La vaste campagne de sécurité menée par le Hamas pour éliminer les gangs armés qui ont collaboré avec l’armée israélienne pendant la guerre s’intensifie. «Nos opérations les élimineront tous, sans exception», a déclaré une source sécuritaire du Hamas à Mondoweiss. À présent, la vidéo est devenue virale. Des hommes armés …

Qui commande en Europe ? En Allemagne, BlackRock détient des participations, directement ou par l’intermédiaire de fonds qu’il possède, comprises entre 3% et 10% dans Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Continental, Adidas, Bayer, Lufthansa, Sofran, Daimler, AG, Basf, Allianz, Siemens, Thyssen Krupp, Münchener Re, Rheinmetall, Hensholdt. À cet ensemble de participations s’ajoute …

During his 22-year reign, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expanded Turkey’s power militarily in hot wars in Libya and Nagorno-Karabagh. Most recently, decades of methodical planning and quiet preparation culminated in forces that President Trump openly acknowledged were “[Erdoğan’s] surrogates”[1] sweeping into Damascus in December 2024, capturing the government …

In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It said British and Israeli military chiefs had agreed to “formalise and enhance the defence partnership and support the growing Israel-UK partnership.” In Britain, the government gave the new agreement no …

How America and Europe Can Exploit Moscow’s Vulnerabilities To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a full wartime footing, the Kremlin has both splurged on weapons factories and begun trading more with China to evade Western sanctions. …

The agreement between Israel and Hamas announced last week is good news, but it represents only a modest step towards resolving the manifold problems caused by the war in the Gaza Strip. Limited or not, the deal is valuable in its own terms, assuming it holds. Under its terms, the …

Sans aimants, pas de moteur, pas de radar, pas d’avion. Et sans la Chine, pas d’aimants. Environ 90% de la production mondiale d’aimants à terres rares provient de la République populaire. Ils sont présents dans chaque moteur électrique, chaque drone, chaque F-35. Ce qui peut sembler être un détail technique …