Fuel crisis threatens security and stability in the Sahel A good round-up on the current security situation in the Sahel based on interviews with @simnasr.bsky.social @cagataycebe.bsky.social and myself (by @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social) www.aa.com.tr/tr/dunya/sah...

A look at how security pressure in Turkey and the Afghanistan–Pakistan region weakened ISIS’ Turkish-language media presence.

The arrest of Halis Bayancuk, one of Turkey's well-known and rising religious figures, sparked a debate on social media between Sufis and Salafis in recent days.

JNIM in Mali issued a statement today calling on international organizations, businesspeople, student groups, and the working class. It created a narrative encompassing the people of the coastal region.

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I spoke with sheikhs from the al-Baggara, al-Ugeidat/Aqidat, and Masahadah tribes in eastern Syria. They shared their views on the SDF.

During Trump and Sharaa's meeting, Syria announced its decision to join the anti-ISIS coalition politically, rather than militarily. Two weeks ago, a Syrian official told me that Damascus had requested that the U.S. halt ground operations, though they could accept sharing intelligence against ISIS

"AFRICOM officials were concerned that the U.S. lacked the intelligence and assets to support expanding operations to Nigeria, one of the people familiar said."

Iran, Sudani said, is “a neighboring country with which we have friendly ties. But certainly, this friendship will not be at the expense of our national decisions and the interests of Iraq and Iraqis.”

Like Iran’s “axis of resistance” - a network of non-state actors loosely tied together under an Islamic revolutionary banner - the UAE’s “axis of secessionists” comprises a network of non-state actors tied together under a counterrevolutionary banner.

A sophisticated Chinese spy ship monitored Australian, Philippines, United States and New Zealand naval forces as they conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea last week. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"More than 200 million people are estimated to live in territories controlled by non-state armed groups."

Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department’s intelligence bureau, show an increase in the flow of material from the U.A.E. to the rebel RSF since the spring.

President Trump on Saturday threatened Nigeria with potential military action and said the United States might cut off aid, accusing the West African country’s government of failing to protect Christians.

My latest: Sources ranging from former Hurras ad-Deen/al-Qaeda members to official army personnel emphasize that CENTCOM's use of the term "al-Qaeda" is merely a pretext, and that the real aim is to push jihadi groups not yet in the army's ranks to join.

Xi, who wants Trump to drop his tariffs on Chinese goods, ease access to U.S. technology like semiconductors and loosen restrictions on Chinese investments in the US, analysts said. The icing on the cake for Xi would be if Trump signaled he was open to reducing Washington’s support for Taiwan.

Jointly and separately, US and NATO forces conducted operations and exercises throughout the Arctic in recent weeks to counter increasing competition in the higher latitudes, officials from the forces have acknowledged.

Senior White House and Navy officials are in early discussions to replace the current mix of warships with a new “Golden Fleet” that would be better suited to counter China and other potential future threats, according to former and current officials.

ECFR warns that "Traoré is struggling to control territory beyond major urban centres, and many African and European analysts now fear Ouagadougou could fall to jihadist groups". Around 60% of Burkina Faso’s territory is now believed to be beyond government authority.

“I want Chevron here for another 100 years,” Mr. Maduro said after Chevron got a U.S. permit to restart pumping oil. The company has been in Venezuela since 1923.

Missiles, Subs, and Drones: How China Plans to Sink a U.S. Aircraft Carrier

Ermenistan-Azerbaycan barışının sağlanması Güney Kafkasya’da büyük bir değişim yaratabilir. Yıllardır kapalı olan sınırların açılmasıyla, bölgenin Avrupa ile Asya arasında bir transit merkezi haline gelmesine katkıda bulunarak küresel ekonomiye entegrasyonu güçlendirebilir.

An elite Army Special Operations aviation unit (160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment) has been conducting flights in the southern Caribbean Sea near the coast of Venezuela.

"...an interrogator revving a power drill near a blindfolded prisoner to scare him into divulging Al Qaeda secrets in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In another, the interrogator is holding a handgun to the prisoner’s head."

"Together with a ban on Russian warships visiting Cyprus, which had previously supplied refueling and maintenance services, this was a major blow to the Russian presence in the Mediterranean."

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has introduced a new generation of its Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) Swarm solution at AUSA 2025.

Singapore is set to launch the first of its new multirole combat vessels (MRCVs) in October, marking a major milestone in the Republic of Singapore Navy's (RSN's) fleet renewal programme.

All of this should concern Israelis. Even if the war ends, there will then need to be a moment of soul-searching about the collective society’s responsibility for the years of mass killing and displacement. Palestinians desperately need this war to end. But so do Israelis.

An arrest means that counterintelligence has failed to deter and, for a time, to detect the recruitment of an American by a foreign intelligence service.

Some 83,000 Israelis emigrated in 2024, 50 percent more than the previous year. Seven members of the Israeli military died by suicide in July and August alone.

Western war planners see the European Arctic as a potential hot spot in a conflict with Russia. U.S. and European militaries have been sending troops to train in Arctic winter conditions.

"Hybrid warfare refers to the combined use of conventional military combat with other means, such as clandestine operations or cyberattacks, to target adversaries."

Companies in the U.S., China, France, the U.K. and elsewhere are all working on their own unmanned aerial vehicles that seek to emulate the Shahed.

Two major news agencies demanded that Israel explain what happened during a strike on a hospital in Gaza last month that killed five journalists, calling for concrete actions and accountability to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

The Taipei District Court on Thursday found a former adviser to the foreign minister and a former Democratic Progressive Party aide guilty of passing secrets to China.

“Given the large number of U.S. military assets that have been deployed to the Caribbean, it is clear that the administration intends to continue such operations,” Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island said.

"After the Israeli attack on Qatar, one of UEFA's largest sponsors, pressure has been exerted in recent days to expel Israel from the organization's competitions."

"The proposed sales include a deal worth $3.8 billion for 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters ... The administration is also seeking approval for a $1.9 billion deal for 3,250 infantry assault vehicles for the Israeli army."

The Israeli attacks on Doha, and America’s support of them, has caused Gulf leaders to majorly rethink their security, writes @cinziabianco.bsky.social @ecfrmena.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4puZHx8

Russia and Vietnam have developed a back-door method of concealing arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions.

Turkish arms deals and deployment by Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have made the news recently, putting the spotlight on this non-traditional source of weapons.

Iran decided at the last minute Thursday to withdraw a resolution prohibiting attacks on nuclear facilities.

"He wasn’t hired for catering or logistics. Instead, Saleem was forced into the “International elite battalion”, a foreign mercenary unit fighting on the frontlines of Russia’s war against Ukraine."

Beijing's targeting of Southeast Asia, its institutions, including government agencies and diplomats, and especially spying on the latter, is a crucial example of how it uses cyber capabilities as a foreign policy tool and for its growing political ambitions.

"The Japanese government is preparing for likely U.S. demands that Japan cover a greater share of the costs for stationing U.S. forces in the country, after President Donald Trump expressed dissatisfaction with Tokyo's current level of burden-sharing."

"The United States was pontificating about its power at a time when its power is visibly ebbing in front of everyone’s faces," said Larry Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.

“We’re seeing the biggest conventional arms race since World War II,” said Pat Conroy, Australia’s minister for defense industry. “China is massively modernizing its conventional and nuclear armed forces.”

"In June, Israel cast aside that doctrine in favor of blunt military action that killed hundreds of civilians. Some strikes killed residents with the bad luck to live beside a nuclear scientist or a senior general." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...

"The military so far has deployed eight warships, several Navy P-8 surveillance planes and one attack submarine to the region."

“The U.S. is now directly targeting civilians. Drug traffickers may be criminals but they aren’t combatants,” the Department of Defense official said.