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December, 2025

  • 26 December

    Iran Update, December 22, 2025

    ToplinesIran is likely prioritizing ballistic missile production due to both organizational inertia within the Iranian defense apparatus and the need to restore deterrence in what it views as an ongoing war with Israel. The reconstitution appears to be an effort to restore deterrence against Israeli attack, though a reconstituted ballistic …

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  • 26 December

    A Half-Year After Operation Rising Lion, Iran’s Ballistic Missile Threat Re-Emerges

    Six months after Operation Rising Lion, Iran’s ballistic missile threat to Israel is once again intensifying. While Israel, with decisive U.S. support, dealt a severe blow to Iran’s nuclear program in June, the campaign left Tehran’s conventional missile infrastructure badly damaged but not eliminated. Iran has retained a residual production …

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  • 26 December

    SDF Shelling Leaves Dead and Wounded in Aleppo

    Two civilians were killed and seven others injured in artillery shelling that Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Aleppo attributed to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positioned in the al-Ashrafiya and al-Sheikh Maqsood neighborhoods of Aleppo city. Clashes erupted around the al-Layramoun and Shayhan roundabouts in northern Aleppo today, Monday 22 December, …

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  • 26 December

    Navigating Syria’s new political economy: Rivalries, rising rents and an emerging elite

    Many want to share in a possible boom after the toppling of Assad ended civil war and global isolation, but access is limited Scouting the old quarter of Damascus for a shop to expand his business, gold merchant Mahmoud Radwan encountered both high rents and the open hostility displayed towards …

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  • 26 December

    Syria ‘dismantles’ ISIS cell in Damascus suburb

    Guns, ammunition and banknotes seized in raid on ⁠’terrorist hideout’ after deadly attack on US troops Syria announced on Sunday it had dismantled an ISIS cell in a Damascus suburb and arrested seven people, as part of a move to step up operations against ⁠the group after a deadly attack …

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