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November, 2025

  • 6 November

    Meet the Muslim Brotherhood

    In 1918, V.I. Lenin renamed the Bolshevik Party the Russian Communist Party. Western scholars and policymakers soon began studying communism and the threat it posed to free nations. In 1920, the German Workers’ Party adopted a new name: the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, better known as the Nazi Party. …

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  • 6 November

    Metal scrap sourced from Syria and Libya’s wars feed Turkey’s steel industry

    Tainted metal scrap sourced from conflict zones can ultimately become finished steel used by some of Europe’s top firms. The Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism Association (SIRAJ) and El País co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. Ahmad* is 11 and has lost his hacksaw – or …

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  • 6 November

    Finding Nigeria’s Forgotten Mass Graves Through Satellite Data

    There are more than 25,000 missing people in Nigeria, more than in any other country on the African continent. Many of them disappeared during the height of the Boko Haram crisis, as the Nigerian army fought to keep the Islamist insurgency, which had infiltrated several northern cities, at bay. During …

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  • 6 November

    Jamal al-Sharaa: The Brother Who Tested the Boundaries of Power

    When Syria’s new president Ahmad Sharaa came to power last December, dismantling the decades-old Assad regime, he promised a clean break from the corruption, nepotism, and privilege that had defined Syrian governance for half a century. Yet within months, that pledge would be tested—not by generals or ministers, but by …

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  • 6 November

    Syrian Foreign Ministry Reinstates 19 Defected Diplomats

    The group includes ambassadors, consuls, and administrative officials, now restored to their prior positions within the Ministry. The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has issued a decree reinstating 19 diplomats who had previously defected from the former regime. The group includes ambassadors, consuls, and administrative officials, now restored …

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  • 6 November

    Washington Alerts Iraq to Imminent Military Action in Syria, Warns Against Militia Interference

    Iraq’s Defence Minister, Thabit al-Abbasi, has revealed that he received an official notification from his American counterpart, Pete Hegseth, concerning imminent military operations to be conducted within Syrian territory. The message was unequivocal: any involvement by “armed Iraqi militias” in these operations would carry serious consequences. No further details were …

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  • 6 November

    Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 3, 2025

    Toplines Russian forces continue to advance in the Pokrovsk direction and appear to be operating with increasing comfort within Pokrovsk itself. Geolocated footage published on November 3 indicates that elements of the Russian 5th Motorized Rifle Brigade (51st Combined Arms Army [CAA], formerly 1st Donetsk People’s Republic Army Corps [DNR …

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  • 6 November

    Iran Update, November 3, 2025

    Iran Update, November 3, 2025Toplines Venezuela recently requested military equipment, including drones, from Iran amid heightened tensions between Venezuela and the United States, according to internal US government documents obtained by The Washington Post.[1] It is unclear if Iran is willing and able to export drones and other military equipment …

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  • 6 November

    When Bombs Turn the Taps Off

    The Impact of Conflict on Water Infrastructure in Lebanon PUBLIC1Download

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