Damascus, Syria – What happens when foreign fighters no longer roam the desert but march in formation under a national flag? In Syria, this question is no longer hypothetical. The interim government under Ahmed Al-Sharaa has begun formally integrating around 3,500 foreign fighters – many of them Uyghurs from China …

A political earthquake hit Israel last week when former Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman revealed that “the Israeli government is giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons, identified with Islamic State [in Gaza], at the direction of the prime minister”. Netanyahu has since admitted that Israel had been “running” …

After Israel’s June 12 strike on Iran, the need to support the non-Persian ethnic groups in the country to bring about the collapse of the Ayatollahs’ regime has become clearer. A coalition of non-Persian ethnic groups could topple the regime in a few months. It is worth noting that, unlike …