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Israel and the Coming Long War

To Defeat Iran’s Resistance Axis, the IDF Needs a New Strategy—and a Unified Country In the weeks since late July, when Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr was killed in Beirut, there has been much speculation about the eruption of a wider …

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Turkey’s Foreign Policy Ambitions Meet Reality

With its foreign policy maneuvering space increasingly constrained, Turkey’s hedging between its NATO allies and Russia will be harder to maintain. A decade into adopting a more assertive foreign policy that enabled Turkey to successfully project power and shape the Syrian, Libyan, and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, Ankara’s maneuvering space appears to …

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Spotlight on Iran and the Shiite Axis

Amid the ongoing delay in Iran’s response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, senior Iranian military officials have stepped up their statements concerning Iran’s commitment to retaliate against Israel at the appropriate time, albeit with different characteristics than the Iranian attack on Israel in April 2024. E_196_24Download

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L’Arabie saoudite accélère le déclin du pétrodollar en faisant la promotion du pétroyuan

Le ministre saoudien de l’industrie et des ressources minérales a déclaré que son pays «essaierait de nouvelles choses» – notamment l’utilisation du yuan dans les transactions pétrolières – alors que Riyad cherche à intégrer des produits chinois tels que les véhicules électriques, l’avion de ligne C919 et les infrastructures d’énergie …

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Commentary: The Global Jihadi Terror Threat in September 2024

The terrorist threat from jihadi groups was progressively degraded by counterterrorism measures after 9/11. The military defeat of the Islamic State ushered in a period from about 2017 of unusually low threat in non-conflict zones around the world, followed by some disinvestment from CT by Western governments. However, Russia’s full-scale …

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