The Red Sea has become “operationally hazardous” for many operators but remains open to shipping following the latest Houthi attacks, according to regional and shipping experts. Neil Quilliam, a Middle East specialist at Chatham House and an AGBI columnist, said vessels continued to pass through Bab al-Mandab, the southern gateway …

Middle Eastern banks face fresh hurdles in establishing and maintaining US correspondent relationships as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to choke off Iran’s global financial dealings. US officials have targeted one institution in the UAE and Turkey each in the two weeks since they launched Operation Economic Outcast, and are …

La guerre à Gaza dure depuis bientôt trois ans. Pourtant, au fil des mois, les grands médias occidentaux en parlent de moins en moins. Le sort de près de deux millions de Palestiniens vivant dans une bande de Gaza d’environ 360 kilomètres carrés, largement coupée du monde par voie terrestre, …

L’engrenage d’Ormuz place Trump dans un dilemme de choisir uniquement entre deux façons de perdre : y renoncer pour enterrer sa carrière ou y aller pour enterrer l’hégémonie qu’il prétend sauver. De toute façon, ces deux options sont intimement liées, de sorte que choisir l’une c’est implicitement choisir l’autre. Le …

Introduction : Le mensonge originel Le Liban n’est pas un pays qui a échoué ; c’est un pays qui a été conçu pour échouer, et que ses propres enfants ont obstinément refusé de sauver. Pour comprendre l’état de décomposition avancée dans lequel il se trouve en cette année 2026, il …

Hezbollah and Amal are already manipulating where donor funding goes and who gets credit for reconstruction, so Washington and its partners should coordinate ways to bypass them before the country’s wider reconstruction effort begins in earnest—starting with the first batch of “pilot zones.” In recent weeks, U.S. policy toward Lebanon …

Toplines Russian milbloggers continue to acknowledge Ukrainian counterattacks near Lyman and are criticizing the pervasive culture of lying within the Russian military. Russian milbloggers claimed on September 9 that the situation in the Lyman direction is increasingly deteriorating for Russian forces and that Russian forces had to withdraw from unspecified …

Key Takeaways Iran has launched a concerted effort in recent days to more aggressively target US naval forces, likely to degrade the United States’ willingness and ability to continue enforcing the US naval blockade on Iranian ports. US officials warned that Iran may be using “more sophisticated weapons” to target …

While the ruling liberal coalition might lament this emerging trend, no matter how statistically insignificant it is at present, the conservative and libertarian-nationalist opposition parties are probably pleased and might hope that the numbers grow much larger.

Grand Mufti Hassoun’s life sentence has opened the book on religious co-option. Will anyone turn the page?In sentencing Ahmad Hassoun to life imprisonment, the judges cited his abuse of office for personal enrichment and incitement to violence. But Hassoun was not a black sheep. He was part of a system …