JUST IN They’re seeing red. On Thursday, the United States and the United Kingdom carried out air and missile strikes in Yemen after weeks of attacks by the Houthis on shipping vessels in the Red Sea that had disrupted global commerce. Will these strikes deter the Iranian proxy group from further attacks? Will they embroil
In Season 1, Episode 10 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by Renad Mansour, an expert on Iraq, Iran, and allied groups. As the region convulses from the war in Gaza, they begin by assessing reports that the Wagner Group has been tasked with transferring a Russian air defense system
As Israel’s relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip enters its fourth month, Egypt—which is suffering the ramifications of the ongoing war on its northern border—has, in recent weeks ramped up its mediation efforts to broker a permanent ceasefire. But despite inching closer to a new hostage release deal, the assassination of Hamas’ Deputy Leader Saleh
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa started the new year with a declaration of “internal armed conflict” against criminal groups, coupled with a sixty-day state of emergency. Earlier this week, two leaders of criminal groups—José Adolfo Macías Salazar, alias “Fito,” of the group Los Choneros, and Fabricio Colón Pico, alias “Capitan Pico,” from Los Lobos—escaped from prison.
ORIGINAL SOURCE On January 5, IPSI nonresident senior fellow Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi was quoted in NK News on Russia’s recent use of North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine. Fellow Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi Nonresident Senior Fellow Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Defense Policy Indo-Pacific Related Experts: Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi Conflict Indo-Pacific Korea Russia Security &
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Article 99 of the United Nations (UN) Charter allows the UN secretary-general to “bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.” On December 6, 2023, invoking Article 99 for the first time since he took office, Secretary-General António Guterres called
As tensions increase with Iran and its proxies in the Red Sea, it’s growing harder for Biden administration officials to avoid an ugly truth: The Iranian regime is pivotal to most of the Middle East’s worst problems, and US inattention will only make those problems worse. Hamas’s terrorist strike on October 7 wouldn’t have happened
ORIGINAL SOURCE On January 2, Dr. Matthew Kroenig, vice president and senior director of the Scowcroft Center, argues in Foreign Policy that one of under-the-radar threats of 2024 is a potential “unfrozen conflict” between NATO and Russia in the Arctic. Even as melting ice has allowed “geopolitical competition [to heat] up in the High North,”
Platform design and content moderation decisions affect what people see, hear, and believe about the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and the conflict in Gaza that has followed. Do X, Meta, Telegram, and TikTok recognize how their algorithms affect people, politics, and history? Do we? The first declaration of war came via Telegram. On
