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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…
ANALYSIS: Delcy Rodríguez under pressure, caught between earthquake and public distrust
Delcy Rodríguez, acting president of Venezuela since Nicolás Maduro's arrest in January 2026, is now facing the toughest test of her improvised term: managing…
COMMENTARY: Beijing fires a submarine missile into the Pacific and nobody is reassured
Some military gestures read like full sentences. On Monday, July 6, 2026, around noon Beijing time, a Chinese nuclear submarine fired a ballistic missile…
EDITORIAL: Ukraine is winning the interceptor war, but losing the race against time
It must be said plainly from the first line of this editorial: Ukrainian air defense has held for more than four years against one…
EDITORIAL: The IRGC, the backbone of a regime that refuses to bend
To understand why Iran refuses to yield despite weeks of American strikes, one must look beyond the official ministries and diplomatic spokespeople.
EDITORIAL: The Strait of Hormuz, the artery a regime decided to strangle
There are places on this planet where geography itself becomes a weapon. The Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint barely 33 kilometers wide between Iran…
EDITORIAL: Zelensky, the tightrope walker who must please both Washington and Brussels
There is a diplomatic exercise that few leaders in the world master with as much forced consistency as Volodymyr Zelensky.
ANALYSIS: Iran isolated but still defiant after the American response
In the days following the American strikes of July 11 to 12, 2026, against roughly 140 targets linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…
EDITORIAL: Anefis, the strategic lock that decides the fate of northern Mali
I want to be direct about something: until this past week, Anefis was not a name most readers outside Mali would have recognized.