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Syria’s Faultlines and Regional Implications

Bottom Line Up Front In recent weeks, Syria’s southern province of Suwayda — home to the country’s Druze minority — has been engulfed in some of the deadliest violence since the 2011 Syrian civil war.Israel intervened militarily in the conflict, citing the need to protect the Druze community, intensifying its …

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L’Ukraine lance une série d’attaques aux drones en Russie, plusieurs incendies dans une centrale nucléaire et un port pétrolier

L’Ukraine a lancé une série d’attaques aux drones sur le territoire russe dimanche, jour où elle célèbre son indépendance, provoquant des incendies dans une centrale nucléaire et un terminal pétrolier au moment où les efforts diplomatiques pour régler le conflit s’enlisent. Alors que la perspective d’une rencontre entre Vladimir Poutine …

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United Nations body declares famine in Gaza

The UN food insecurity monitor declared, ‘Over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions’ A United Nations body has declared a famine in Gaza as Israel’s genocidal assault intensifies. Israel has been starving millions of Palestinians for months. On Friday the Integrated Food Phase Classification …

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Iraqi Militias Come Under Pressure to Demobilize

Bottom Line Up Front Amid major setbacks for Iran and its Axis of Resistance, Iraq’s political leaders are trying to gain firm control over militias that are duly constituted forces but act outside the national chain of command.An armed clash at a government building between security forces and militia commanders …

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Syria aid workers abducted en route to Sweida

Five aid workers have been abducted in Syria while delivering supplies to the besieged province of Sweida this week, in what their colleagues told The National was an alarming development. On Monday, seven of eight vehicles carrying privately donated aid from the Damascus suburb of Jaramana were ambushed and looted …

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Iran Update, August 22, 2025

Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani gave an interview on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s website on August 22 in which he discussed Iran’s post-war defense and considerations for future conflicts.[1] Larijani warned that adversaries may seek new opportunities to attack Iran and that Iran must correct its defensive …

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