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The fight for Aleppo’s Kurdish neighbourhoods has turned into a blunt test of will: can the SDF’s local security forces hold Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh under siege conditions long enough to force a negotiated outcome, …
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Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have just executed the kind of fast, politically loaded counter-offensive that doesn’t merely “retake ground” — it rewrites who gets to claim the south. In the space of a week, the i…
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Capture of President Nicolás Maduro: what the operation changes, and what it risks next In the early hours of 3 January 2026, multiple major outlets reported that U.S. forces conducted strikes in and around Caracas and c…
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Warblog situation summary — Operation Promising Future (from 2 December 2025) Situation overview Since 2 December, the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has executed a fast-moving offensive across Yemen’s so…
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Situation Report: Russian advance into Konstantinovka (Kostiantynivka) — strategic assessment Russian forces have advanced into Konstantinovka’s built-up area, shifting the fight from a pressure campaign on the approache…
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Thailand–Cambodia border fighting: latest situation brief Fighting has again flared along the Thailand–Cambodia frontier, with both sides trading accusations over who fired first and whether a ceasefire still exists. Tha…
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Benin’s Foiled Coup and the Return of Françafrique Benin has just lived through its most serious security crisis in decades: a dawn coup attempt in Cotonou on 7 December that saw mutinous troops seize state TV, attack th…
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Chaman–Spin Boldak: Ceasefire in Ashes The Chaman–Spin Boldak crossing has gone hot again. On the night of 5–6 December 2025, a two-hour exchange of fire between Pakistani and Afghan Taliban forces shattered an already-f…
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Bamako is being throttled—not by a thunder run, but by a patient vise. A coalition of al-Qaida–aligned factions has spent the past month turning Mali’s capital into an island, striking fuel convoys and key road junctions…
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Strategic Military Review: The Russian Encirclement of Pokrovsk and Mirnograd (October 2025) Overview: As of October 2025, the Russian military has made significant strides in encircling two key towns in the Donetsk regi…
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