Middle Orient

Closer economic and military synergy between them in Central & Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Seas would pose new challenges for Russia in the post-conflict European order. Polish President Karol Nawrocki paid a state visit to Turkiye late last month where he declared that “It is impossible …

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Dépendant de sa coalition d’extrême droite à l’approche des élections législatives, Netanyahu apparaît peu enclin à faire des concessions susceptibles de relancer un véritable processus politique. Le Hamas dissout ses instances dirigeantes et accepte de céder la gestion civile de Gaza au NCAG. Le mouvement conserve toutefois son appareil sécuritaire …

Following its deal with the United States, Iran may act against Iraq-based dissidents. On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a massive, coordinated military operation against Iran. During the subsequent war, Iran carried out hundreds of drone and missile strikes on exiled Iranian Kurdish militant groups in …

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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Monday evening, July 6. Syria’s state-run al-Ikhbariya TV reported that Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani received the French president at Damascus airport. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with the French channel BFMTV that Macron’s visit to …

Amid an official announcement that French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Damascus, the file of French jihadists in Syria has returned to the forefront after Agence France-Presse published a detailed report on the situation of those who remain in the country, their relationship with Syria’s new authorities, and …

Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding that has not stopped the exchange of fire in the Gulf but has already produced a renewed and more aggressive repression campaign inside Iran. This crackdown can be understood as the regime’s response to Iranians who had begun to imagine what their …

The consensus among analysts is that Hamas is down, but hardly out. The group may be badly battered, but it has been around since 1987, and in that time, it has been repeatedly attacked by Israel and has always grown back. The conditions that gave rise to the organization—occupation, dispossession, …

Israel’s recent regional strategy has exposed significant limitations in achieving its long-term foreign policy objectives, illustrating the widening gap between military operations and strategic success. While Iran’s resilience and diplomatic positioning have accelerated the emergence of a more multipolar and diplomatically driven Middle Eastern security order. Carl von Clausewitz once …