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WORLD
Syria’s New State Looks Alarmingly Rural
Post-Assad Syria is not settling into a new national centre. It is hardening into a patchwork of rural power bases, clan ties, and competing local loyalties.
WORLD
Lebanon Ceasefire: New Deal Ploughs the Same Furrow
Trump brokers a truce in Lebanon, leaving a ten-day window to test the old structural deadlock that has defined the Blue Line for generations.
WORLD
Abu Dhabi Recalibrates Relations with Syria’s New Leadership
UAE backs Syria’s new leadership with reconstruction aid as al-Sharaa visits Abu Dhabi, signaling shifting Gulf dynamics post-Assad.
EUROPE
All Roads Lead to Mecca: Syria’s New Patron
Syria’s new interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, visited Mecca after arriving in Riyadh yesterday in a trip that indicates the future order of regional power in Syria.
WORLD
Al-Sharaa Seeks Support in Meeting with Christian Clerics
Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met with Christian clerics in Damascus to reassure the country's dwindling Christian community, amid growing concerns over religious tolerance and the influence of radical militias following his rise to power.
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Ceuta Crisis Exposes the Limits of Sánchez’s Migration Model
The Ceuta crisis does not prove that Spain's regularisation policy caused mass migration, but it exposes how quickly legal ambiguity and expectations of eventual residence can weaken border deterrence.
How Turkish Drones Turned The Tide in Sudan
A drone strike on Egypt's Mediterranean coast confirms how Sudan's aerial war now radiates across borders, arms routes and South Sudan's fragile December vote.
Bubble Swells: Europe Insists On Labelling AI Content
Public patience for AI looks thinner by the week, and Europe's new labelling law may only be the most visible sign of the change.
Brick by Brick: The Court Europe Built Withers Aways
Europe drafted the rulebook of international justice after 1945, and as tribunals empty and allies clash publicly at the United Nations, its enforcers vanish.
Berlin Pride Manifests Germany’s Islamist Security Failure
Germany's recurring Islamism problem exposes gaps in deradicalisation, security and integration after the Berlin Pride attack.
