Middle Orient

The July 7–8 NATO Summit in Türkiye was supposed to demonstrate the unity of all 32 members of the alliance. However, it yet again evidenced the schism between Washington and the rest of the bloc. On the eve of the meeting in Ankara, Trump repeatedly stated that Europe is turning …

Key Takeaways Iran has attacked at least three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, which indicates that Iran retains the ability and willingness to attack commercial shipping despite recent US strikes on Iran. US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on July 13 that it conducted …

Téhéran ferme le détroit d’Ormuz à coups de missiles en réponse à l’ultimatum américain… et le commandement de l’armée libanaise coupe les lignes de communication avec la Résistance. L’ultimatum américain de 24 heures exigeant une déclaration iranienne garantissant la liberté de navigation s’est effondré. Washington a reçu sa réponse sous …

Yemen’s Houthi movement fired missiles at Saudi ​Arabia after accusing the kingdom of bombing an airport under their control on Monday, breaking a four-year truce in the conflict between ‌the kingdom and the Iran-aligned group. Saudi Arabia intercepted missiles “launched by the terrorist Houthi militia toward the southern region,” the …

Landlocked Kazakhstan is seeking port access, and Astana is banking on Iran to provide it. On July 8, Kazakhstan signed an agreement to build a logistics and transport terminal at Iran’s largest seaport and sanctions evasion hub, Shahid Rajee Port in Bandar Abbas. Under the terms of the 27-year Build-Operate-Transfer …

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The Trump administration will announce plans to resurrect a five-decade-old pipeline running from Iraq to the Syrian port of Baniyas Iraq, Syria and the US plan to revive a historic 500-mile pipeline to Syria’s Mediterranean coast as part of efforts to reduce Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, senior …

Israël voue un tel mépris à son pantin américain, que le président Donald Trump, agent israélien, a transformé en un pays autrefois fier, que le représentant américain Ro Khanna et sa délégation d’enquête en Cisjordanie ont été détenus par des « colons israéliens » criminels, armés de mitrailleuses de l’armée …

As opaque negotiations on SDF integration grind on, the city of Qamishli lives with parallel authorities, shrinking subsidies and growing uncertainty over who will govern nextHow is the SDF integration process going? On the streets of Qamishli many people say they just don’t know. Government forces, at least, are nowhere …

The EU reconfigures its relationship to Syrian civil society The European Union’s new Roadmap for Civil Society Engagement marks a break in how Brussels approaches Syrian civil society: away from viewing it as a social movement and political force shaping state formation; and towards framing it as a local stabilisation …