November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Hamas leaders and mediators from Egypt, the US, Qatar and Turkey are engaged in wide-ranging discussions in Cairo to iron out potential hurdles in the next phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, sources told The National on Tuesday. They said topics under discussion include Hamas’s disarmament, the mandate …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Following the passing of UN Security Council Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025, which is based on U.S. President Trump’s 20-point plan and calls for the deployment of an “International Stabilization Force” (ISF) in Gaza – tasked inter alia with “the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state groups” and “the …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Latest Developments New Mission in Terror Hotspots: The IDF initiated a new counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank on November 26, with raids carried out in a strip of Palestinian villages that includes Tubas, Tammun, Far’a, Tayasir, and al-Aqaba. The operation is reportedly being carried out by troops from …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia
La publication surprise, la semaine dernière, d’un projet de plan de paix pour l’Ukraine a suscité l’espoir d’une fin imminente à ce conflit sanglant qui dure depuis près de trois ans. L’Ukraine a subi des pertes terribles qui pourraient bouleverser sa démographie pour les décennies à venir. Si ce plan …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Un sondage réalisé par l’institut Ifop conclut à une forte poussée de religiosité, de rigorisme et de soutien à la mouvance islamiste chez les musulmans de France. Cette étude, critiquée pour ses biais méthodologiques, a été commanditée par une revue soupçonnée de liens avec les Émirats arabes unis. Quelle est …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The muhajirin file, or foreign fighters, has become a thorny issue for the new Syrian state, caught between loyalty to the fighters who formed a “hard core” within Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the external interests of the state over which HTS came to hold sway, and between honoring its …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The assassination of Haitham Ali Tabtabai, Hezbollah’s top military commander, deep inside Beirut’s southern suburbs has dramatically reshaped Lebanon’s internal security scene. Hours after the strike, Israel’s Alma Center published an updated chart of Hezbollah’s command structure that included senior political figures such as Mohammad Raad, head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The world is watching a famine develop in Gaza that could kill many times more than the 24,000 Palestinians who have already perished in Israel’s merciless blitzkrieg. Last month, more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population was estimated to be facing high levels of acute food insecurity, categorised as Phase …
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November 27, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
A Sky News investigation has uncovered new details about Israel’s support for a Palestinian rebel group with extremist ties and a history of looting aid trucks. As negotiators debate who will run Gaza after the war is over, Israel is already shaping a new reality on the ground. In recent …
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November 26, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Mazlum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has said he is ready to travel to Turkey and meet with jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan, as Turkish lawmakers plan to make the first parliamentary visit to his island prison under a new peace initiative. Abdi …
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