“We are committed to distancing Iraq from regional wars,” Hussein said. “Baghdad does not desire escalation in the region.” Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein warned that the threat posed by ISIS has resurfaced, cautioning that the extremist group is actively regrouping and planning attacks. His remarks came in a special …

Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday, in its clearest warning yet to Syria’s new Islamist-led authorities of its readiness to ramp up military action in the name of the country’s Druze minority.Syria’s government called the bombing a “dangerous escalation” amid increasing hostility between …

In early 2018, near the tail end of a major cryptocurrency boom, a Lithuanian start-up called Bankera announced that it had managed to raise over 100 million euros in just six months by selling its own digital coin. The company said the funds would be used to fashion a “bank …

Nord Stream 2—the only U.S.-Russian business project that looks like a viable prospect once the fighting in Ukraine ends—raises more questions than answers. Renewed diplomatic contact between Moscow and Washington under U.S. President Donald Trump has quickly become economic as well as political. Statements from both sides about wanting to …

Iran-backed terror group has withdrawn north of the Litani River without fight, security official claims, as President Aoun says full deployment hindered by IDF control of 5 posts The Lebanese army has dismantled “over 90 percent” of Hezbollah’s infrastructure near the border with Israel since a November ceasefire, a security …

New Evidence of China’s Involvement in Russian Drone Programs Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) would share a significant piece of intelligence with Beijing: that Chinese citizens are working in a drone production plant in Russia and may have bypassed authorities to transfer Chinese …

Ceci est le premier volet d’une série en trois parties consacrée à l’histoire des exercices militaires de l’OTAN et du Commandement européen des États-Unis avec l’Ukraine. Il montre comment l’Occident, agissant comme un chameau, a glissé son gros nez sous la tente ukrainienne dans le cadre d’une stratégie à long …

Ceci est le premier volet d’une série en trois parties consacrée à l’histoire des exercices militaires de l’OTAN et du Commandement européen des États-Unis avec l’Ukraine. Il montre comment l’Occident, agissant comme un chameau, a glissé son gros nez sous la tente ukrainienne dans le cadre d’une stratégie à long …

Les officiers français souhaitent que les règles constitutionnelles relatives à l’engagement dans des guerres étrangères soient respectées. L’implication massive de mercenaires français dans le conflit ukrainien provoque des tensions au sein même de l’armée nationale. Dans une lettre commune récente, les anciens combattants français ont demandé aux responsables politiques locaux …

Conquérir un territoire, c’est avant tout soumettre sa population. Il faut bien distinguer cette notion de celle d’«occupation», un terme juridique spécifique qui régit les relations entre une «puissance occupante» étrangère et la nation occupée en vertu du droit international, en particulier la quatrième Convention de Genève. Lorsque les forces …