The Islamic State, or ISIS, made global headlines recently on account of two significant developments in Syria: a prison uprising in Hasakeh in late January and the raid by U.S. special operations forces a week later, on Feb. 3, that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi …

Normalization of diplomatic ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad raises troubling questions for humanists who are also realists. When an evil regime wins a bloody war that allows it stay in power, how can a liberal-democratic state express solidarity for victims of that regime’s brutality without engaging in fantasy politics? …

By any definition, Libya is a so-called fragile state and a high-priority challenge for international security. Since 2011, it has been wracked by repeated cycles of internal division and proxy warfare. It is a key node of arms smuggling and human trafficking, and a feeder of violence, conflict and human …

Iran’s chief negotiator traveled to Oman a day after Qatar’s foreign minister visited Tehran in what seemed to be diplomatic efforts for an impetus to US-Iran nuclear talks. Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani was in Oman, one of the very few allies of the Islamic Republic in the …

The United States and United Kingdom touted a small win for regional security cooperation ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia next week. A British warship seized shipments of Iranian cruise and surface-to-air missiles in the Gulf of Oman for the first time earlier this year, the UK …

“People will die because of this vote,” US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said of the Security Council’s failure to reauthorize the cross-border mechanism. Millions of Syrian lives hang in the balance after Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have kept humanitarian aid flowing …

Turkey’s ambassador to Kyiv has been summoned to voice Ukraine’s displeasure over its grain stolen by Russia and shipped to Turkish ports. Turkey’s relations with Ukraine are showing increasing signs of strain five months into Russia’s invasion of its Black Sea neighbor. The brewing friction stems from Ukrainian allegations that …

De tout temps l’Europe était un continent déchiré par la guerre malgré ses grands exploits prometteurs. Mouammar El-Kadhafi maîtrisait très bien ses connaissances historiques – constatant que l’Union européenne apporta en Europe la paix et la stabilité, il voulut faire la même chose en Afrique, son propre continent. La seule …

Les Français sont venus au Mali pour combattre le terrorisme qui s’est décuplé et non pas diminué, en particulier, dans la zones ou ils avaient leurs bases militaires. Cette situation nous pousse à remettre en question la crédibilité de cette mission, qu’est ce qui a changé depuis les dix ans …

La mission de l’ONU au Mali (MINUSMA) entre dans une phase difficile, après que le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU a renouvelé son mandat pour une année entière, sans renforcer ses effectifs ni lui assurer un soutien aérien, tandis que Bamako s’oppose à sa liberté de mouvement pour mener des …