December 26, 2025 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Six months after Operation Rising Lion, Iran’s ballistic missile threat to Israel is once again intensifying. While Israel, with decisive U.S. support, dealt a severe blow to Iran’s nuclear program in June, the campaign left Tehran’s conventional missile infrastructure badly damaged but not eliminated. Iran has retained a residual production …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Two civilians were killed and seven others injured in artillery shelling that Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Aleppo attributed to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positioned in the al-Ashrafiya and al-Sheikh Maqsood neighborhoods of Aleppo city. Clashes erupted around the al-Layramoun and Shayhan roundabouts in northern Aleppo today, Monday 22 December, …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Many want to share in a possible boom after the toppling of Assad ended civil war and global isolation, but access is limited Scouting the old quarter of Damascus for a shop to expand his business, gold merchant Mahmoud Radwan encountered both high rents and the open hostility displayed towards …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Guns, ammunition and banknotes seized in raid on ’terrorist hideout’ after deadly attack on US troops Syria announced on Sunday it had dismantled an ISIS cell in a Damascus suburb and arrested seven people, as part of a move to step up operations against the group after a deadly attack …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says move aimed at ‘burying’ idea of Palestinian state Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has advanced plans to build a settlement in the E1 area surrounding East Jerusalem and derail the creation of a Palestinian state. The minister said on Thursday he would approve tenders …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Israeli cabinet voted to grant 19 settlements legal status on Friday The expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is at its highest level since at least 2017, when the UN began tracking the data. In 2025, “plans for nearly 47,390 housing units were advanced, approved, or tendered, …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Israel’s security cabinet has approved 19 more settlements in the occupied West Bank, bringing the number granted permission the past three years to 69. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler himself, revealed the latest proposal had been passed after pushing it through the cabinet. Mr Smotrich openly says the new …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia
ToplinesRussian forces are conducting a new cognitive warfare campaign through limited cross-border attacks across a broad part of the previously dormant northern frontline in Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts. Ukrainian authorities reported on December 20 and 21 that Russian forces entered Hrabovske, Sumy Oblast (a small rural village southeast of Sumy …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia
La crise est en Europe, l’Europe est en crise. Nous l’analysions en 2012. Si les choses se sont aggravées, les origines de la crise économique restent les mêmes : la crise des économies et des sociétés européennes est avant tout une crise de la domination d’une certaine économie, financiarisée. Au …
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December 26, 2025 Eurasia
Nous traversons une période fort troublée de la vie politique française et internationale ; il me paraît judicieux de faire apparaître, ou de rappeler, quelques repères auxquels nos concitoyens désemparés pourront se référer dans une société où la violence (violence de rue et violence d’Etat), le mensonge, la manipulation et …
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