Category: Middle East

What makes Colombian mercenaries so interesting?

Coming up this Thursday, in Season 2, Episode 2 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by Dr. Andrés Macías, a Bogota-based expert on Colombian mercenaries. They begin by looking at the explosive case of 26 Colombians arrested for their part in the 2021 assassination of the Haitian president, as well

Panikoff quoted in Middle East Eye on US efforts to find Yahya Sinwar

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Daragahi joins France24 to discuss tensions in the US-Israel relationship

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Libya’s special envoy resigned. What’s next for the country?

Since the Libyan House of Representatives announced a new law for presidential and parliamentary elections on November 1, 2023, specifying a deadline of two hundred and forty days for holding the polls, political divisions in Libya have deepened. Despite this legislative step, disagreements persist among Libyan authorities, with various powerful politicians and military figures vying

A Rafah invasion might kill peace between Israel and Egypt

Relations between Egypt and Israel have soured in recent weeks as Israel prepares to launch a full-scale ground offensive into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip—a move that Cairo has warned would put its peace treaty with Israel at risk and destabilize the region.   Egypt fears a sweeping assault on Rafah—where more than one