Key Takeaways:Monday clashes in western Sweida wounded at least 10 Internal Security Forces after two civilian deaths; the Druze-majority province has stayed outside full Damascus control since Assad fell in December 2024.The National Guard under Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri—formed August 2025 after July fighting that UN/NGOs put at ~1,700 dead—runs sectors …

Key Takeaways:After Ali Al-Zaidi’s July 14 White House visit, deals cited at ~$60bn (energy, tech, health) as U.S. troops aim to leave Iraq by Sept. 30. Trump framed job-and-oil gains; Washington is backing a mothballed 850 km Kirkuk–Baniyas line (1952; ~300,000 b/d until 1982; wrecked in 2003) that Tom Barrack …

Derrière le brouhaha partisan, George Soros continue de conclure des accords avec les sionistes mêmes qu’il est accusé de combattre. George Soros a passé des décennies à jouer le rôle du méchant. Les responsables israéliens et les conservateurs américains le considèrent comme un financeur de causes antisionistes et un adversaire …

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A podcast interview with investigative journalist Lukas Valasek for Seznam Zpravy on Monday laid out a recent well-organised, large-scale disinformation campaign that pushed the notion Poland was preparing to invade and annex a small border area with its southern neighbour around the twin towns of Ciezyn/Tesin. “It is the first …

Analysis: Israel wants a weak Syria; Turkey wants a stable one. Their competing ambitions are creating a dangerous new faultline for Damascus to manage Damascus – Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani met with Israel’s Mossad chief Roman Gofman in Jordan on 23 August following days of escalating tensions that resulted …

Pourquoi le goulot d’étranglement pétrolier le plus célèbre au monde ne concerne pas que le pétrole.Introduction : l’erreur Nous appelons le détroit d’Ormuz un goulot d’étranglement pétrolier parce que le pétrole est la matière première la plus visible. Quand une crise émerge dans les eaux entre l’Iran et Oman, la …

Rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant, et rien n’est acquis. Donald Trump continue de balayer les idées reçues, de consolider les alliances et d’ouvrir des négociations avec des interlocuteurs considérés comme des «ennemis» des États-Unis. Trump continue de surprendre le monde, mais en réalité, il semble poursuivre la stratégie …

Key Takeaways:An RFE/RL-led report notes that the Center of Experimental Physiology on Lisy Island in Tver’s Vyshnevolotskoye Reservoir—closed after a 2023 “natural monument” designation—is led by Vladimir Maksimov, a former official of the Defense Ministry’s 48th Central Research Institute, which the U.S. sanctioned in 2020 over alleged biological and chemical …

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to use contradictory language about the possibility of achieving peace in Ukraine to obscure Moscow’s true objectives. Putin addressed the Eastern Economic Forum on September 3 and stated uncertainly that, in his opinion, there is a chance that Russia and Ukraine can hold constructive peace …