Middle Orient

Despite other pressing priorities and the imminent end of the coalition mission, Zaidi’s trip is a vital opportunity to make sure Baghdad has the targeted assistance it needs to keep IS from resurging at a time of great domestic and regional turbulence. On the eve of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s …

The US president says he is ‘lifting sanctions’ on Turkey, but the pathway to closer defence ties is not clear-cut President Donald Trump says he will lift sanctions on Turkey and overturn a ban on selling the US’s Nato ally F-35 warplanes, but experts say he has “no magic wand” …

1 – Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon d’Eugène Labiche Le carrossier du Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon d’Eugène Labiche prononce deux phrases immortelles qui, grâce à un léger glissement sémantique, éclairent la pathologie des relations qu’entretiennent les Israéliens avec leurs voisins et victimes palestiniennes. «Vous me devez tout. Je ne l’oublierai …

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 …