Initialement employée pour désigner des États européens pris individuellement, l’expression «l’homme malade» est devenue une métaphore structurelle pour l’ensemble du continent. L’Europe perd rapidement sa capacité à dicter les règles dans le nouveau contexte de la concurrence mondiale. La métaphore de «l’homme malade» a été utilisée pour la première fois …

La Stratégie Nationale de Défense 2026 des États-Unis est plus qu’une doctrine militaire.C’est un document historique qui, sous un vernis martial, acte un changement d’ère.Ni plan de conquête ni aveu de faiblesse, il constitue le premier manuel explicite de gestion du déclin relatif de l’hyperpuissance.Loin de promettre encore de façonner …

Protesters gathered in al-Karama Square in central Suwayda (southern Syria) on Saturday, 31 January 2026, for a rally titled “To Be or Not to Be.” The local activist network al-Rased described it as “one of the largest gatherings Suwayda has seen in recent years.” It said the rally followed a …

Sunday will mark 47 years since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years of exile. As excited revolutionaries awaited his plane’s arrival at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, the country’s new supreme leader was asked by an accompanying journalist what he felt about finally coming home. “Nothing,” was Khomeini’s cryptic …

Farmland that once bloomed with fruit and vegetables now destroyed by war or cut off by Israeli barrier At dawn in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, Ahmad Ghaben walks towards his field with his sons. It lies only 500 metres from the “yellow line”, behind which Israeli forces are stationed. Every …

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“They came in the night after Assad fled,” said Mohammed, a resident of Kodena, a small village perched upon rolling hills of rocky soil, about a mile and a half east of the unofficial border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli forces “rode in jeeps, hummers, armored personnel carriers, …

The SDF has suffered a series of defeats to government forces in recent weeks, but the future for Syrian Kurds need not be bleak, say analysts At the time of writing, the demise of Rojava appears imminent, a project intended to provide an egalitarian space in Syria away from the …

Turkey has banned all gatherings in a southeastern province for six days following an outpouring of anger over an offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters Turkish officials in the southeastern Mardin province bordering Syria on Monday announced a six-day ban on gatherings following an outpouring of anger over an offensive against …

A conversation with Karim Sadjadpour and Robin Wright about the recent protests and where the Islamic Republic might go from here. Aaron David Miller: What’s happening with the protests? Robin Wright: When we look at this moment, we need to put it in context. The revolution in 1978–79 took fourteen …