Eurasia

Key Takeaways The Houthis are pursuing diplomatic efforts that are likely intended to prevent the United States or its partners from supporting or joining the Saudi offensive campaign against the Houthis by claiming that the group currently has no intention to target international shipping. Allowing the Houthis to consolidate their …

Key Takeaways: After talks with Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi again rejected displacing Palestinians and urged full implementation of the 10 October Gaza ceasefire: stop escalation, let aid in, start recovery. Egypt helped broker that 2025 deal with Qatar, Turkey, and the U.S.; it has stalled over Hamas …

Benjamin Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history. Eighteen years in power, three comebacks, three resignations, endless promises to “deliver security.” But today his name has become synonymous not with strength but with international toxicity. Not because Israel’s enemies conspired, but because he himself turned the country into …

From elections and party politics to local government, media and construction, Prime Minister Edi Rama’s hold on power now faces a new test. In June of this year, a book setting out an ambitious vision for Albania’s physical transformation was published: The Albanian Files. Featuring a foreword by Prime Minister …

Ilham Ahmed affirmed in an extensive interview with Turkish journalists that the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into the Syrian army marks the beginning of a new political chapter for the Kurdish question in Syria. She explained that the priority in the coming period will shift toward securing Kurdish …

À la mi-juillet, l’Arabie saoudite a relancé sa guerre contre le gouvernement yéménite d’Ansarullah et le mouvement houthi : «Les forces dirigées par l’Arabie saoudite ont bombardé lundi l’aéroport international de Sanaa, au Yémen, relançant ainsi la guerre contre les Houthis yéménites, officiellement connus sous le nom d’Ansarullah, alors qu’un …

Several considerations are pushing the new Syria and Russia to reorder their relationship and move it from hostility towards cooperation. Moscow is seeking to salvage the strategic agreements it concluded with the Assad regime, foremost among them the arrangements governing its military presence in Syria. A return to Syria would …

Key Takeaways: IFIMES reads Tokayev’s Bishkek SCO speech as “responsible middle-power” policy: use the SCO’s “Shanghai spirit” and even a UNGA resolution on its principles, but treat the UN as irreplaceable. Kazakhstan would link China, Russia, the EU, the U.S., Turkey, and the Gulf rather than pick a bloc.Tools cited …

La posture stratégique impériale des États-Unis s’est heurtée à une réalité technique et industrielle incontournable : on ne peut mener une guerre sur trois fronts avec des ressources prévues pour un seul théâtre d’opérations. Alors que la politique étrangère de Washington reste focalisée sur la diplomatie transactionnelle, les cycles électoraux …

Les nouveaux alliés musulmans de l’Arabie saoudite ne volent pas à son secours et même les États-Unis auraient rejeté sa demande d’intervention directe dans la dernière phase de ce conflit qui dure depuis plus d’une décennie. L’expert russe Farhad Ibragimov a évalué avec justesse que «l’OTAN musulmane saoudienne est confrontée …