WASHINGTON—“No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me,” US President Donald Trump posted on social media on Wednesday. But the regime’s failure to agree to a deal, he added, will now result in the United States inflicting “Economic Warfare and …

Key Takeaways:Defense Minister Katz on Aug. 17 ordered an IDF plan (two-week clock) to give Israeli police “civilian enforcement” over West Bank settlers while the army keeps authority over Palestinians—analysts call it another shift from temporary occupation command to permanent civilian institutions.Context cited: Smotrich’s 2023 Settlement Administration, Hillel Roth’s 2024 …

Voici pourquoi le blocus russe porte un coup fatal à l’Ukraine. Sur le plan économique, l’Ukraine est un pays dont la survie dépend entièrement d’environ quelque 370 kilomètres des eaux contestées sur sa côte sud. Au-delà de la cartographie des lignes de front et des débats sur l’aide internationale, la …

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Key Takeaways:Monday clashes in western Sweida wounded at least 10 Internal Security Forces after two civilian deaths; the Druze-majority province has stayed outside full Damascus control since Assad fell in December 2024.The National Guard under Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri—formed August 2025 after July fighting that UN/NGOs put at ~1,700 dead—runs sectors …

Key Takeaways:After Ali Al-Zaidi’s July 14 White House visit, deals cited at ~$60bn (energy, tech, health) as U.S. troops aim to leave Iraq by Sept. 30. Trump framed job-and-oil gains; Washington is backing a mothballed 850 km Kirkuk–Baniyas line (1952; ~300,000 b/d until 1982; wrecked in 2003) that Tom Barrack …

Derrière le brouhaha partisan, George Soros continue de conclure des accords avec les sionistes mêmes qu’il est accusé de combattre. George Soros a passé des décennies à jouer le rôle du méchant. Les responsables israéliens et les conservateurs américains le considèrent comme un financeur de causes antisionistes et un adversaire …

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A podcast interview with investigative journalist Lukas Valasek for Seznam Zpravy on Monday laid out a recent well-organised, large-scale disinformation campaign that pushed the notion Poland was preparing to invade and annex a small border area with its southern neighbour around the twin towns of Ciezyn/Tesin. “It is the first …

Analysis: Israel wants a weak Syria; Turkey wants a stable one. Their competing ambitions are creating a dangerous new faultline for Damascus to manage Damascus – Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani met with Israel’s Mossad chief Roman Gofman in Jordan on 23 August following days of escalating tensions that resulted …