The dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea over the Red Sea port of Assab now extends well beyond that of a maritime facility or outlet for…
Pete Reynolds
Three centuries ago, in 1729, author Jonathan Swift used the cold language of arithmetic to suggest that Ireland’s poor sell their children as food…
On 30 July 2026, the declaration establishing the Multinational Maritime Defence Alliance was signed in Riyadh. The signatories were Saudi Arabia,…
A flurry of defections from a powerful Sudanese militia, combined with a recent military victory by the Sudanese Armed Forces in the south, has led…
When the US-Israeli war with Iran broke out on 28 February 2026, it caught most regional observers by surprise, as there had been an active…
The world is now passing through an era of ‘strategic unravelling’, and its proportions are catastrophic. Conflicts no longer remain confined to…
Perilous ideas in international politics rarely arise from a vacuum. They tend to emerge when the global order experiences structural strain, the…
In el-Fasher, the sky seemed to collapse upon the weary shoulders of a city long strangled by siege, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) flung open the…
When Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir established the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in 2013, it marked the hollowing out of state institutions and…
The fall of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 26 October was a strategic turning point in the country…
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US and Iran: open to talks, preparing for war
