April, 2026

• 27 April

  Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 25, 2026

  

  Toplines Russian forces conducted a massive drone and missile strike consisting of 666 drones and missiles against Ukraine overnight on April 24 into April 25, primarily targeting Dnipro City, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing at least six civilians and injuring at least 47. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched …

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• 27 April

  Iran Update Special Report, April 25 2026

  

  Key Takeaways Prospects for meaningful US-Iran negotiations remain low as Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and his inner circle continue to dominate Iran’s decision-making and oppose compromise. ISW-CTP assessed that in recent days, the IRGC has sidelined civilian officials and that Iran’s negotiating team lacks …

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• 27 April

  A new world order is taking shape

  

  The American-Israeli aggression against Iran has become a pivotal moment in international relations, having undermined American ambitions for dominance in the twenty-first century. A blow to American ambitions, a victory for China The fact that the Iranian regime withstood and skillfully confronted the overwhelming military power of the United States …

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• 27 April

  “A Picayune Detail:” Nazi Science Heads West

  

  As Allied forces crossed the English Channel during the D-Day invasion of June 1944, some 10,000 intelligence officers known as T-Forces were right behind the advance battalions. Their mission: seize munitions experts, technicians, German scientists and their research materials, along with French scientists who had collaborated with the Nazis. Soon, …

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• 27 April

  Four scenarios for geopolitics after the Iran war

  

  After more than a month of war and amid an uneasy cease-fire, Iran announced Friday that it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz for ships traveling a pre-approved route, while President Donald Trump vowed to continue a US blockade on Iranian ships. Both sides are still negotiating a deal to …

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• 27 April

  Battered but not broken: The status of Iran’s post-war ballistic missile arsenal

  

  A leading objective of the US-Israeli war against Iran that began on 28 February and ended with a tenuous two-week ceasefire on 8 April was the destruction of Iran’s ballistic missile program. Despite thousands of unrelenting targeted strikes, Tehran reportedly still possesses much of its ballistic missile arsenal, and perhaps …

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• 27 April

  Europe’s Energy Suicide: The EU Admits the World Runs on Fossil Fuels — While Deliberately Destroying Its Own

  

  [W]ithin Europe itself… institutions pursue the systematic dismantling of their own domestic fossil fuel capacities. The result is not environmental salvation. It is an engineered dependency that can only delight oil producers such as Russia. Households face increasingly high energy bills that contribute to widespread energy poverty. Official EU figures …

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• 27 April

  L’Iran, enjeu mondial : quel rôle jouent la Russie et la Chine ?

  

  L’aide discrète de Moscou et de Pékin a largement contribué au renforcement de la riposte asymétrique de Téhéran, ce qui a affaibli la machine de guerre américaine. Alors que l’agression militaire israélo-américaine contre l’Iran, qui a rapidement dégénéré en guerre régionale, annonce une crise énergétique plus grave que celle de …

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• 27 April

  Les États-Unis, le leader incontesté du terrorisme par procuration

  

  J’ai déjà réfuté le mensonge selon lequel l’Iran serait le premier commanditaire du terrorisme. Je vais maintenant m’intéresser plus précisément à la question du nombre d’Américains, civils et militaires tués par des mandataires ayant reçu l’aide de l’Iran. Je vais ensuite inverser la perspective… Combien d’Iraniens, civils et militaires, ont …

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• 25 April

  Iran Update Special Report, April 22, 2026

  

  Key TakeawaysThe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy attacked and likely redirected two vessels towards Iran on April 22, likely to enforce Iranian claims of sovereignty over the strait to disrupt global shipping and extract US concessions. The IRGC also may have redirected the two vessels in response to the …

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