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From Strategic Alliance to the Brink in Northern Syria Dr. Musfafa Al-Tal What is happening in Syria today is not merely a passing escalation, nor even another episode in the familiar series of Israeli strikes. It is a mirror of the collapse of old equations, and a test …

Berk Kutay Gokmen and Yasin Gungor US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that no talks with Iran were underway or planned, adding the Strait of Hormuz remained open under Washington’s naval blockade. “There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” …

US intelligence officials had doubts about the credibility of an alleged Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump that was relayed by Israel and contributed to an extraordinary security operation during his departure from Türkiye last month, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Citing current and former US officials …

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized U.S. Secretary of State and Republican Marco Rubio, calling him a “frustrated Latin American.” In a speech at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, the Brazilian president attributed part of the problems …

Alexander Tuboltsev As you know, political science and international relations are among the sciences of society, and this is quite obvious, because without society it is impossible to imagine the existence of a political sphere. Society, in turn, cannot be imagined without the people who make it up. …

Kit Klarenberg The Pentagon has activated a new psychological operations unit targeting Africa, tasked with “expanding the military’s ability to influence foreign audiences” across the continent. The heavily hyped launch occurs against a backdrop of dramatically and irreversibly waning Western influence and power in every sphere across the continent. …

Hanna Eid In 1985, Indian scholar Gayatri Spivak asked “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in what would become a landmark essay of poststructuralist theory. Spivak’s answer–ironically enough, mediated through French theory of the 60s, 70s, and 80s–was ‘no’; the answer was negative due to the power over the production …

 Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan on 7 August 2026 represents one of the most consequential developments in the reconfiguration of the Middle East’s security architecture in decades. The agreement establishes a collective-defence principle under which aggression …

As food, water and medical supplies dwindle in El-Obeid, the UN warns of parallels with the massacre in El-Fasher. Residents describe siege conditions, drone strikes and growing fears as Sudan’s war grinds on. The UN is warning that El-Obeid could become Sudan’s next humanitarian catastrophe, echoing the violence seen in …