March 9, 2026 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Syrian Ministry of Defense said the current deployment of Syrian army units along the country’s borders with neighboring states, including Lebanon, does not constitute a military escalation but rather a purely defensive and organizational measure that does not target any country or party. The ministry explained that the deployment …
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March 9, 2026 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
If the succession process can be carried out as Khamenei intended, it will likely bring a hardliner into power. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death on Saturday after U.S. and Israeli airstrikes hit his compound immediately re-invoked the succession issue inside Iran, along with threats from the U.S. president to interfere in …
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March 9, 2026 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient, South East Asia
Washington Institute experts explain what U.S. officials and military planners should be on the lookout for as great power competitors and close allies outside the region consider their responses to the crisis. Trump’s Next Steps Will Reverberate Beyond the Middle East President Trump’s decision to attack Iran adds another layer …
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March 9, 2026 Eurasia, Middle Orient
L’Iran & l’Axe ont réussi à “aveugler” les États-Unis dans le Golfe en détruisant les radars, à bloquer les exportations de pétrole et à ramener le front libanais au premier plan de la résistance. Rapport stratégique et opérationnel (vendredi 6 mars 2026 | 23 h 00 CET) La première semaine …
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March 9, 2026 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
If Israel and the US hoped their attack on Iran would force the country to capitulate quickly, they were wrong. Despite the death of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many other senior figures, Iran has managed to continue firing drones and missiles at targets across the Middle East. …
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March 9, 2026 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Israel’s initiative in recognizing Somaliland potentially raises the level of threat from the Houthis, an Iranian-supported terrorist militia that occupies most of northern Yemen. Somaliland is located directly across from Yemen. The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah (“Friends of Allah”), have proven their durability by having survived many US …
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March 9, 2026 Balkans, Eurasia
Such social and civic engagement is not new in Bosnia, historically. Throughout the modern history of Bosnia, there is a common thread of engagement on socioeconomic and institutional problems. Even before World War I, there was a history of Socialist political networks and movements. The 1990s war in Bosnia and …
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March 9, 2026 Balkans, Eurasia
The two countries most affected by the halt in Russian oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline, Hungary and Slovakia, stepped up their criticism of Ukraine for not restoring the flows promptly enough after it was apparently damaged in a Russian drone attack on Ukrainian territory at the end of January. …
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March 9, 2026 Balkans, Eurasia
The three days of February 16, 17 and 18, 2026 were a confluence of interrelated events of historical significance for the United States, Kosovo, and the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, which is in the final process of establishing its legacy. On February 16, the US celebrated George Washington’s birthday, the annual …
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March 9, 2026 Balkans, Eurasia
Both women looked exhausted. They struggled to maintain eye contact, to focus on the conversation. They described feeling constantly on edge, unable to rest, waiting forever for news that never comes. One had five children, the other four. Their husbands were killed in the fighting. Our husbands brought us here, …
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