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Al-Shabaab’s 2025 Offensive and the Unraveling of Somalia’s Federal Counterinsurgency

Bottom Line Up-Front: Al-Shabaab’s July 2025 recapture of Sabiid and Anole underscores the group’s renewed offensive toward Mogadishu, reversing its key territorial losses from The Somali government’s 2022 counteroffensive.Al-Shabaab now controls a strategic triangle across Moqokori, Tardo, and Buq-Aqable in central Somalia, enabling it to encircle government positions and sever …

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Syria’s Faultlines and Regional Implications

Bottom Line Up Front In recent weeks, Syria’s southern province of Suwayda — home to the country’s Druze minority — has been engulfed in some of the deadliest violence since the 2011 Syrian civil war.Israel intervened militarily in the conflict, citing the need to protect the Druze community, intensifying its …

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L’Ukraine lance une série d’attaques aux drones en Russie, plusieurs incendies dans une centrale nucléaire et un port pétrolier

L’Ukraine a lancé une série d’attaques aux drones sur le territoire russe dimanche, jour où elle célèbre son indépendance, provoquant des incendies dans une centrale nucléaire et un terminal pétrolier au moment où les efforts diplomatiques pour régler le conflit s’enlisent. Alors que la perspective d’une rencontre entre Vladimir Poutine …

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United Nations body declares famine in Gaza

The UN food insecurity monitor declared, ‘Over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions’ A United Nations body has declared a famine in Gaza as Israel’s genocidal assault intensifies. Israel has been starving millions of Palestinians for months. On Friday the Integrated Food Phase Classification …

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