Bottom Line Up-Front: Al-Shabaab’s July 2025 recapture of Sabiid and Anole underscores the group’s renewed offensive toward Mogadishu, reversing its key territorial losses from The Somali government’s 2022 counteroffensive.Al-Shabaab now controls a strategic triangle across Moqokori, Tardo, and Buq-Aqable in central Somalia, enabling it to encircle government positions and sever …

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 …

Protestors called for an end to the atrocities and genocide in Gaza. As global outrage toward the state of Israel grows over the escalating humanitarian crisis and atrocities against Palestinians, several hundred citizens gathered last night in Skënderbeg Square in Tirana to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and to …