August, 2026

• 6 August

  “The Pipeline Will Solve Everything”: Turkey Loses Revenue but Refuses to Give Up Ground in Iraq

  

  In late July 2026, the information space was once again rocked by a publication from security expert Murat Usal, who drew attention to the rapidly escalating covert confrontation between Ankara and Baghdad. Previously, the main stumbling block in bilateral relations had been the $1.5 billion compensation lawsuit over oil shipments …

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• 6 August

  Von Der Leyen Attempts To Defuse Ceuta Crisis In Letter To Spain’s PM Sánchez

  

  Key Takeaways: Ursula von der Leyen praised Spain’s handling of the 60,000 migrant arrivals in Ceuta, saying Spanish and Moroccan authorities efficiently prevented further illegal movement into mainland Europe. She used the incident to call for stronger EU border controls, including physical barriers, better monitoring, early warning systems, dismantling smuggling …

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• 6 August

  America’s Long Arc of Military Failures

  

  To “secure its national interests”, America went to war multiple times over the past several decades, yet all of the wars ended in stunning failures with wide ranging implications for the countries involved. It is said that national interests triumph over every other consideration in the realm of foreign policy. …

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• 6 August

  Shoring Up The Red Sea: Why The Next Crisis May Start In The Horn Of Africa – Analysis

  

  Key Takeaways: Houthi attacks and growing instability in the Horn of Africa—particularly the merging of Sudan’s civil war with Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions and Somalia’s internal disputes—are creating new threats to Red Sea navigation and energy flows through Bab el-Mandeb.Competing Middle Eastern powers (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel) are fueling …

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• 6 August

  Les tensions se propagent et embrasent le Moyen-Orient

  

  Le mieux que Trump puisse faire, c’est d’empêcher que ces conflits ne se terminent en guerre mondiale. Le silence qui entoure l’issue de la rencontre avec Netanyahou la semaine dernière dans le Bureau ovale en dit long. Pas un seul représentant du gouvernement américain n’est venu l’accueillir à l’aéroport, et …

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• 6 August

  Mackinder’s Heartland vs Spykman’s Rimland: Neither Is Winning for the “Motherland”!

  

  For anyone still selling the West’s grand strategy as a coherent product, is that the framework itself has aged worse than either of its authors could have imagined. Mackinder and Spykman were writing about a world where land power and sea power were mutually exclusive career choices. There is a …

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• 6 August

  Cette fois, le paysage du Moyen-Orient est sur le point de changer

  

  Le Moyen-Orient ressemble de plus en plus à la région frontalière du Shanxi et du Gansu dépeinte dans la série télévisée «L’Épée brillante» : il est plongé dans le chaos. Cette fois, le paysage du Moyen-Orient est sur le point de changer ; l’ancien ordre mondial sous l’égide des États-Unis …

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• 6 August

  Features of success and imbalance
  the Syrian Interior Ministry. Structuring race in complex conditions

  

  The Syrian Ministry of Interior is rearranging its internal security home, through a new visual identity and a structure for the administrative system, on the rubble of the security institutions that were dissolved after the fall of the former Syrian regime. During this process, Enab Baladi observed a disparity in …

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• 6 August

  Syrian security forces intensify operations against ISIS

  

  The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced the dismantling of a cell belonging to the “Islamic State” organization in Deir ez-Zor governorate, following a security operation carried out by the Internal Security Forces in cooperation with the General Intelligence Service, which resulted in the arrest of the leader of the cell …

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• 6 August

  L’été où la paix a pris fin

  L’Iran et la Russie ont pris conscience qu’il ne peut y avoir de paix avec l’Occident. Par conséquent, les conflits se régleront sur le champ de bataille et s’étireront sur une longue période. L’ordre juridique international est mort, la paix mondiale est morte : c’est la guerre. La guerre mondiale. …

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