February, 2025

• 18 February

  Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 15, 2025

  

  Note: The data cut-off for this product was 11:45am ET on February 15. ISW will cover subsequent reports in the February 16 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is attempting to create conditions to frame Putin as the victor over US President …

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• 18 February

  Iran Update, February 15, 2025

  

  We do not report in detail on war crimes because these activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. We utterly condemn violations of the laws of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions and crimes against humanity even though …

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• 18 February

  Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 15, 2025

  

  Note: The data cut-off for this product was 11:45am ET on February 15. ISW will cover subsequent reports in the February 16 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is attempting to create conditions to frame Putin as the victor over US President …

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• 18 February

  Israeli General given special immunity for secret trip to Britain

  

  After Declassified exposed an Israeli army delegation in London, the UK government confirms the officers were given diplomatic immunity from arrest for war crimes. Israeli General Oded Basyuk and his delegation were given special diplomatic immunity to visit Britain last month, the UK government has confirmed.

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• 18 February

  Is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel?

  

  Royal Air Force surveillance flights towards Gaza keep taking place when hostages are released. The Royal Air Force (RAF) has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all five days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards the strip on the other …

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• 18 February

  How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom

  

  Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians. With the allied victory and collapse of the Ottoman empire in world war one, Britain occupied Palestine which it ruled until 1948. This was formalised by the newly created League of …

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• 18 February

  Iraq’s Foreign Minister warns of growing threat from ISIS

  

  Speaking to The National in Munich, Iraq’s top diplomat says changing regional dynamics require greater co-ordination between nations Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein expects that a military confrontation with ISIS will become necessary, and that the international community is increasingly recognising the need to act as the extremist group continues …

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• 18 February

  How Trump’s Gaza Plan Could Hand The Middle East To Russia And China – Analysis

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump recently called the Gaza Strip a “demolition site,” and said the Palestinians would be evacuated to Jordan and Egypt, where they would be “thrilled” to live. The U.S. would then take possession of Gaza (“We’ll own it’), and would develop it, creating “thousands of jobs,” making …

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• 18 February

  Trump’s Ukraine Envoy: EU Won’t Be Part Of Peace Talks

  

  US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, told Europeans on Saturday that their inclusion in talks to end the war in Ukraine was “not going to happen”. Kellogg dropped the bombshell at the Munich Security Conference after Europeans for a week had scrambled to emphasise no Ukraine peace talks …

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• 18 February

  Transatlantic Twilight: European Public Opinion And The Long Shadow Of Trump – Analysis

  

  Lamps going out On the evening of August 3rd 1914, a friend visited the British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey in his office in London. They gazed out of the windows at the dusk street as the lamplighters moved along it. “The lamps are going out all over Europe,” commented …

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