L’avancée des Houthis vers Bab el-Mandeb transforme le Yémen d’un champ de bataille périphérique en l’un des fronts les plus conséquents de la guerre américano-iranienne. Au cours des sept derniers mois de cette année, la guerre des États-Unis contre l’Iran s’était concentrée sur le golfe Persique et la capacité de …

Donald Trump ne veut pas tuer des millions de civils iraniens. Mais Trump a un pistolet sur la tempe et le temps presse. La réserve stratégique de pétrole devient dangereusement basse, les taux d’intérêt à long terme augmentent et un choc pétrolier mondial approche à grands pas. Que va faire …

Key Takeaways The Houthis are pursuing diplomatic efforts that are likely intended to prevent the United States or its partners from supporting or joining the Saudi offensive campaign against the Houthis by claiming that the group currently has no intention to target international shipping. Allowing the Houthis to consolidate their …

Key Takeaways: After talks with Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi again rejected displacing Palestinians and urged full implementation of the 10 October Gaza ceasefire: stop escalation, let aid in, start recovery. Egypt helped broker that 2025 deal with Qatar, Turkey, and the U.S.; it has stalled over Hamas …

Benjamin Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history. Eighteen years in power, three comebacks, three resignations, endless promises to “deliver security.” But today his name has become synonymous not with strength but with international toxicity. Not because Israel’s enemies conspired, but because he himself turned the country into …

From elections and party politics to local government, media and construction, Prime Minister Edi Rama’s hold on power now faces a new test. In June of this year, a book setting out an ambitious vision for Albania’s physical transformation was published: The Albanian Files. Featuring a foreword by Prime Minister …

Ilham Ahmed affirmed in an extensive interview with Turkish journalists that the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into the Syrian army marks the beginning of a new political chapter for the Kurdish question in Syria. She explained that the priority in the coming period will shift toward securing Kurdish …

À la mi-juillet, l’Arabie saoudite a relancé sa guerre contre le gouvernement yéménite d’Ansarullah et le mouvement houthi : «Les forces dirigées par l’Arabie saoudite ont bombardé lundi l’aéroport international de Sanaa, au Yémen, relançant ainsi la guerre contre les Houthis yéménites, officiellement connus sous le nom d’Ansarullah, alors qu’un …

Several considerations are pushing the new Syria and Russia to reorder their relationship and move it from hostility towards cooperation. Moscow is seeking to salvage the strategic agreements it concluded with the Assad regime, foremost among them the arrangements governing its military presence in Syria. A return to Syria would …

Key Takeaways: IFIMES reads Tokayev’s Bishkek SCO speech as “responsible middle-power” policy: use the SCO’s “Shanghai spirit” and even a UNGA resolution on its principles, but treat the UN as irreplaceable. Kazakhstan would link China, Russia, the EU, the U.S., Turkey, and the Gulf rather than pick a bloc.Tools cited …