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Israel, Iran, And The US

01.11.2024

Israel bombed Iran last Friday in a three-wave attack that reportedly targeted its air defense systems and other military-related infrastructure in response to Iran’s “Operation True Pr

The Iranian-Israeli Crisis

06.08.2024

Long-running tensions between Iran and Israel, which previously took the form of Israel regularly bombing the IRGC and its allies like Hezbollah in Syria, dramatically worsened since the start of the latest Israeli-Hamas War. The most recent development at the time of writing is Israel assassinating Hamas’ political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran at the end of July. He was attending newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration and was killed by an explosive projectile that hit his guesthouse.

Turkish-Syrian Talks

23.07.2024

Iraq hopes to host talks between the Syrian and Turkish leaders sometime in the near future, with both informally

The Kursk Report

16.05.2022

“In the first phase the enemy, collecting their best forces (...) will strike (...) I consider it inadvisable for our forces to go over to an offensive in the near

Can Europe Exist without Russia?

09.05.2022

The question that is the title of this article was the one asked of the participants of a seminar that I had the honor to organize thirty years ago. It was 1994. Russia was struggling to emerge from the ruins of the Soviet empire.