October, 2024

• 1 October

  Erdogan called on the UN to recommend the use of forces to stop Israel

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on the United Nations General Assembly to recommend the use of forces, in accordance with the resolution passed in 1950, if the UN Security Council does not stop Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reported. The UN General Assembly should …

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September, 2024

• 30 September

  Scenarios After Banjska And Russo-Serbian Hybrid Warfare In Kosovo – OpEd

  

  Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced that Russia supports Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s initiative to reintroduce Serbian forces into Kosovo, in accordance with UN Resolution 1244. This statement from Moscow represents a continued commitment to Serbia’s strategic interests, not merely for the implementation of Vucic’s …

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• 30 September

  The Houthi Attacks In The Red Sea: Impact On Yemen – Analysis

  

  The involvement of the Houthis in the Israel–Hamas war has affected the progress of the negotiations between the internationally recognised government of Yemen and the Houthis. The intra-Yemeni dialogue which was advancing since the agreement between the government of Yemen and the Houthis in April 2022 and the rapprochement between …

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• 30 September

  Ukraine’s Argument For Striking Back – Analysis

  

  On a sunny Sunday afternoon, August 30, Russia launched five glide bombs toward Kharkiv. One bomb obliterated the entrance of a twelve-story residential building, where a seventy-one-year-old burned alive. Another killed a fourteen-year-old girl sitting on a bench in a park, leaving six people dead in total. In September, Russia …

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• 30 September

  The Weaponization Of Immigrants – OpEd

  

  The immigrants were arriving on children’s bicycles and sometimes even in wheelchairs. According to Norwegian law, immigrants couldn’t cross the border by foot. So, in 2015, they were traveling from Russia to the far north of Norway on any conveyance they could find. It was an odd choice of a …

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• 30 September

  Reasons Supporting Netanyahu Is The US’ Big Middle Eastern Mistake – OpEd

  

  At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: The Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in dangerous disarray. Its primary foreign policy goal has been to rally its regional partners to cooperate with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government. Simultaneously, …

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• 30 September

  Iran Update, September 28, 2024

  

  2 days agoIran Update, September 28, 2024Johanna Moore, Siddhant Kishore, Alexandra Braverman, Katherine Wells, Annika Ganzeveld and Nicholas CarlTIPxMake a text selection to add commentsInformation Cutoff: 2:00pm ET The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It …

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• 30 September

  The Russo-Ukrainian War And Mackinder’s Heartland Thesis – Analysis

  

  In 1904, Sir Halford J. Mackinder, one of the founders of classical geopolitics, conceptually divided the world into three parts: the pivot area of northeastern and central Eurasia, the surrounding area of an inner crescent of remaining Eurasian and North African territories, and an outer crescent of all the remaining …

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• 30 September

  Islamist Radicalism Continues To Spread From Eastern North Caucasus Into Bi-National Republics In The Middle – OpEd

  

  Since 1991, most of the Islamist violence in the North Caucasus has occurred in the three republics in the eastern part of that region, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya, while the surviving bi-national republics in the middle and the national republics in the west have remained relatively quiet. But since last …

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• 30 September

  Erdogan’s private military company looks to raise an Islamist army

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks a role for Turkey in Gaza’s post-war reconstruction if not governance, and the Biden administration appears ready to accede to this request. Others also see Turkish involvement after the conflict as a fait accompli. “It’s tough to imagine any long-term solution to the Gaza …

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