Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin has once again emerged victorious from a behind-the-scenes battle for key positions in the FSB leadership. His close associate, General Ivan Tkachev, previously reported on by The Insider, has been appointed head of the FSB’s Military Counterintelligence Department (MCD). In the mid-2000s, Sechin virtually dominated the …

They expect to obtain a client state in at least part of Yemen as their reward for fighting the Houthis. The Southern Transitional Council (STC) claimed that Saudi Arabia carried out warning airstrikes in proximity to its forces, which followed this South Yemeni separatist group dismissing the Saudis’ demand to …

The “EU Defense Line” that’s being built, which refers to the combination of the “Baltic Defense Line” and Poland’s “East Shield” along NATO’s eastern border, might then be bolstered by Polish-led troop deployments seeing as how Poland would be integral to those three’s survival in any war with Russia. Polish …

Toplines Russian forces are currently unable to build out a strategic reserve and will therefore likely be constrained to grinding, slow advances at their current rate and scale in the coming year. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Head Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov told Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne on December 27 …

The decisive shift in the Red Sea corridor is not in Yemen but in Somalia – where Turkey has built an offshore chapter of a strategic order the world refuses to face. The Houthis and Iran fill headlines, but the centre of gravity has shifted: a NATO state is projecting …

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli military will never withdraw from the war-torn Gaza Strip, confirming earlier comments about settlement construction despite Trump’s ceasefire agreement signed in October. “In Gaza, Israel will never fully withdraw – there will be a significant security area inside the …

Europe entered 2025 at a level of energy security that would have seemed out of reach only a few years ago. Gas storage exceeded 70% in January, an exceptionally high level for the season, while overall demand remains roughly 15% lower than in previous years. This decline is not temporary …

The post-revolutionary period in Syria has been a subject of regional security discussions, with one of the most complex governance and security issues in the contemporary Middle East. One of the most critical unresolved questions is the relationship between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian central government, which …

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, a song appeared in the Soviet Union whose title posed a question that still resonates today: Do the Russians want war? The answer the song offered was unambiguous. No, they did not. Its lyrics evoked not ideology or geopolitics, but memory: …

The active military support of North Korea for Russia in the Ukrainian War has been a major shift in the foreign policy strategy of Pyongyang. It has long been recognized for its reluctance in participating in any international conflict through more than mere rhetorical support. North Korea has now leveraged …