Eurasia

Bottom Line Up Front Iran’s strategic architecture, centered on arming a regional network of non-state actors termed the Axis of Resistance, has eroded significantly over the past year and failed to deter Israel and U.S. military action against Iranian territory. Iran’s non-state allies constitute a force multiplier for Tehran, but …

SPICY SCOOPS There is always a lot of information that we hear and find interesting and newsworthy but don’t publish as part of our investigative reporting — and share instead in this newsletter. “RAFAŁ WASN’T FULLY COMMITTED.” A POLISH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBRIEF WITH A CAMPAIGN INSIDER Yesterday, Polish Prime Minister …

Details of the most dangerous Russian intelligence operation, responsible for explosions in Poland and Europe. Its traces lead to a Soviet nuclear submarine We have identified several people who were involved in transporting the bombs on behalf of the GRU. The saboteurs were coordinated by a man convicted of smuggling …

Since the ousting of Bashar Al-Assad, Syria’s transitional government has been racing to project an image of renewal. Nearly every week brings announcements of investment deals, unveiled at high-profile press conferences and televised ceremonies. From glittering real estate ventures to energy and transport projects, these deals are meant to signal …

Israel’s attempted assassination of the Hamas political leadership in Doha, Qatar, has shaken the Gulf region, which hitherto believed that Qatar’s status as a US ally and official mediator in the Gaza war shielded it from such an attack. Considering this willingness to attack Hamas in Qatar, Israel could conceivably …

The so-called “Gaza Riviera” plan is less a vision of the future than an obituary written in the language of luxury. Wrapped in glossy renderings and marketed as a leap into progress, it is in fact the culmination of years of deliberate devastation – a scheme to erase Palestinians in …

Egypt is pushing for the formation of a NATO-like Arab military alliance in the wake of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar last week. For many regional states, Tel Aviv’s unprecedented military action in Doha signalled that no country is off limits to Israeli aggression. The 9 September attacks …

Previously marginal revanchist intellectuals have been producing grandiose ideological theorisations, that are now at the core of state-sanctioned narratives legitimising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There is however little evidence that the “hawks” can effectively constrain the Kremlin’s policy choices With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a new set of keywords entered …

Across the Arab world, a bitter contradiction has emerged. In the streets of Cairo, Beirut and Rabat, crowds still chant passionately for Gaza and the Palestinian cause. Yet behind the marble halls of power, many Arab rulers have grown conspicuously quiet. The Palestinian cause, once the beating heart of pan-Arab …

On any given day during the long war in Gaza, a Biden administration official could be expected to assert any of the following: a cease-fire was around the corner, the United States was working tirelessly to achieve one, it cared equally about the Israelis and the Palestinians, a historic Saudi-Israeli …