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October, 2025

  • 27 October

    L’Irak à la croisée des chemins : entre souveraineté et influence étrangère, malédiction pétrolière et protestation sociale

    Deux décennies après la chute du régime de Saddam Hussein, l’Irak reste un pays de profondes contradictions et de défis complexes. Jeune démocratie fragile, née dans le feu de l’invasion américaine et forgée au creuset des violences sectaires, elle est aujourd’hui confrontée à un enchevêtrement de problèmes interdépendants. Le système …

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  • 27 October

    Une nation en guerre

    Le «président de la paix» préfère se créer de nombreux ennemis. Cela fait neuf mois que Donald Trump est président et la voie à suivre semble assez claire. Le budget insoutenable d’un trillion de dollars du Pentagone soutient un département de la Guerre récemment rebaptisé, et Washington est engagé dans …

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  • 27 October

    The New Supply Chain Insecurity

    In a matter of months, the Trump administration has rewritten the rules of U.S. trade policy. It has imposed blanket tariffs on nearly every country, starting at ten percent and rising as high as 50 percent. Levies on a host of products, such as steel, aluminum, cars, and car parts, …

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  • 27 October

    Kurdistan Region President: To Confront Terrorism, We Still Need the International Coalition

    Kurdistan Region’s President, Nechirvan Barzani, in a meeting with Iraq’s Army Chief, stressed the continued need for Coalition support to fight ISIS, even as Peshmerga-Army cooperation improves. In a clear and forceful appeal for sustained international partnership, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday declared that both Iraq and the …

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  • 27 October

    Hungary’s Lavish Aid Project for Bosnian Serb Farmers Now Seen as ‘PR Financing’

    ‘Autocrats help autocrats’ At the end of 2021, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pledged 100 million euros for Republika Srpska. At the time of the announcement, the aid sparked public debate in Bosnia and Herzegovina about whether the funds would come with strings attached, a possible quid pro quo from …

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  • 27 October

    What to know about the French militants who clashed with Syrian forces in Idlib

    Clashes broke out this week between Syrian government forces and fighters in a camp in northern Syria’s Idlib province led by an internationally wanted French militant. The clashes come at a delicate moment, as Syria’s interim authorities are trying to decide how to handle the presence of thousands of Islamist …

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  • 27 October

    Syria launches operation against foreign jihadists in push to capture French fighters

    Syrian forces on Wednesday launched an operation against jihadists in a camp in the northwest region near the Turkish border in a bid to capture French fighters wanted by French authorities. Foreign jihadists who travelled to Syria to fight with Islamist militias during the civil war have fallen out of …

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  • 27 October

    Progressive except for Kosovo – Kosovo 2.0

    What does solidarity truly mean – especially in contexts where ethnonationalism is deeply entrenched? This question has guided much of my work as a community organizer, creating inter-ethnic spaces for Balkan diasporas in the UK. As someone with roots in Kosovo, I’ve often faced the erasure of my identity – …

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  • 27 October

    Türkiye Expands into the Middle East Void

    Türkiye has been a chief geostrategic beneficiary of the setbacks to Iran and its “Axis of Resistance,” but its expanded regional influence has fueled new tensions with another regional power, Israel. Türkiye and Israel, despite some fundamental differences, recognize each other’s interests and respect their separate close relations with the …

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  • 27 October

    Syria Exploits Great Power Competition in Drive for Stability and Security

    Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa is calibrating relations with both Washington and Moscow to ensure they both contribute to the country’s stability and security. Sharaa’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week sought, in part, to prod Trump officials to pressure Israel to end its assaults on Syrian territory …

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