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DECODING: Zelensky's diplomacy between Washington and Brussels this summer
President Volodymyr Zelensky has multiplied, over recent weeks, his diplomatic trips and interventions with Washington and Brussels, in a context where Western military and…
DECODING: Ukraine's economic resilience under Russia's summer strikes
As the Russian military multiplies its strikes against Ukrainian energy and industrial infrastructure, Ukraine's economy continues, against the expectations of some pessimistic observers, to…
FACT-CHECK: what the closure of Hormuz really means for the global economy
On July 12, 2026, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, citing the massive American strikes of the preceding nights…
DECODING: Iran isolated but still defiant after the American response
In a matter of days, the Islamic Republic of Iran found itself in a position its own leaders probably could not have imagined a…
FACT-CHECK: Iran's nuclear program after the American strikes
Since the night of July 11-12, 2026, American forces have struck roughly 140 targets linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, according…
REPORT: Russia's African strategy bogs down in Sahelian sand
On one side, ceremonial handshakes and cooperation agreements signed with great fanfare. On the other, Russian fighters encircled in a dusty camp in northern…
COMMENTARY: The jihadist-Tuareg alliance shaking the Malian junta
Some alliances should, on paper, be impossible. The one now uniting JNIM, the Sahelian franchise of Al-Qaeda, and the Azawad Liberation Front, a largely…
DECODING: Anefis, the northern Mali lock Moscow and Bamako can no longer hold
Some towns pass, in the space of days, from total obscurity to strategic emergency. Anefis now belongs to that list. This dusty locality in…
DECODING: why Wagner then Africa Corps keep failing in the Sahel
In 2023, Russia renamed its paramilitary force present in Mali, transforming Wagner into Africa Corps under the direct oversight of the Russian defense ministry,…