April, 2023

• 3 April

  From hostility to normalization: The ebbs and flows of Sudan-Israel relations

  

  Sudan’s relations with Israel have vacillated between periods of hostility and outreach. Today, Khartoum’s leaders view these ties as a means to gain international legitimacy, while Tel Aviv aims to eliminate Khartoum as a haven for pro-Iran and Palestinian resistance factions. Unlike most Arab countries whose relations with Israel have …

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• 3 April

  US Threat Report: Washington facing ‘critical years’ in Great Power competition

  

  Unlike in previous years, the 2023 annual US Threat Assessment Report views West Asia through the prism of a Great Power competition that threatens to nudge the world into a post-US multipolar order. On 8 March, 2023, the US Director of National Intelligence released the Annual Threat Assessment Report, which …

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• 3 April

  Lunić: Russia is waging a hybrid war against Serbia, offering the people here more and more delusions

  

  All arguments against Serbia’s membership in NATO boil down to emotions, Serbia’s military neutrality is a political phraseology created by a political compromise, and the announced training of 5,000 military special forces is a dangerous tendency to create class layers within the Serbian Army, said the executive in an interview …

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• 3 April

  “The image is impressive, the ‘fatigue of the material’ is obvious”: What did we learn from the chanting instructions at Vučić’s rally in Kraljevo?

  

  Vučić’s address to the citizens on Friday in Kraljevo was, according to media reports, impressive, and supporters demonstrated symbiosis this time as well. The president’s address was followed by numerous chants from supporters with exclamations of “Aco Srbine”. The stands in the sports hall, where the meeting was held, and …

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• 3 April

  Armenia Is A Loyal Russian Ally, Not The West’s Partner – OpEd

  

  Some Europeans, Americans, and Canadians do not want to accept the fact that Armenia is second only to Belarus in being a Russian satellite state. Instead, they treat Armenia as a budding and prospective candidate for European integration, ignoring the impossibility of Armenia being allowed by the Kremlin to do …

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• 3 April

  Why the Iranian public remains silent in the face of Israeli attacks

  

  The silence from Iran is deafening. Judging by social media reactions and media reports from Iran, few, if any, members of the Iranian public seem to care that, since 2011, the Israeli air force has attacked Iranian and Iranian-affiliated positions in Syria on more than a thousand occasions. More surprisingly, …

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• 3 April

  A Saudi-Houthi deal won’t bring lasting peace in Yemen

  

  The recent agreement to restore diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran raised hope among Western leaders and some Yemen watchers that it could help bring an end to the war in Yemen, in which Tehran and Riyadh back opposing sides. Hans Grundberg, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, who …

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• 3 April

  Iran isn’t worried about the US attacking it, but Biden has other ways to cut a deal with Tehran

  

  The trend lines in US-Iran relations today make for grim reading in Washington. Faced with unrelenting US pressure, Iran’s leaders are regularly meeting with Russian and Chinese officials and pledging unprecedented levels of cooperation. Iran’s nuclear program recently crossed a key threshold into production of weapons-grade uranium. American policymakers today …

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• 3 April

  The Terrorism Landscape Continues to Evolve

  

  Counterterrorism has become a backburner issue amid great power conflict, to the chagrin of many intelligence and homeland security professionals tasked with maintaining vigilance in the face of an ever-evolving threat.The challenge most familiar to the United States and its allies, Salafi jihadist terrorism, now manifests in different forms and …

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• 3 April

  The new Saudi pax: Riyadh also resumes relations with Assad’s Syria. “It’s a message of challenge to the US”

  

  After Tehran , Damascus : according to Saudi state TV Al Ekhbariya , citing sources in the Foreign Ministry , the al-Saud monarchy is in the process of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Bashar Al Assad ‘s Syria , a few days after the news of a similar rapprochement between Riyadh …

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