Key Takeaway: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has expanded his military purges to include two of the seniormost officers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Xi may have purged them because he saw them as undermining his leadership and military objectives. The continued purges have reduced the Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2023 from seven members to […]

La situation en Iran, suite aux troubles sociaux qui secouent le pays depuis la fin de l’année dernière, et la réponse de Washington, marquée par des menaces d’intervention, fascinent les responsables politiques et les médias du Moyen-Orient. Des auteurs arabes analysent le style du président américainDes commentateurs locaux analysent les scénarios probables de tensions entre les deux pays et leurs […]

At least 10 Pakistani security personnel and 37 militants were killed on Saturday during what authorities described as coordinated attacks by separatist fighters across the southwestern province of Balochistan. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said in a statement that security forces repelled multiple assaults and killed 37 insurgents, while suffering 10 fatalities among their ranks. Provincial government spokesman Shahid Rind said […]

Afghanistan’s former vice president Amrullah Saleh said on Tuesday that the United States transferred tens of millions of dollars in cash to the Taliban this month, an allegation that neither US nor Taliban officials have publicly confirmed. Saleh said in a post on X that the United States handed over $45 million in cash to the Taliban in Kabul on […]

Taliban have spent nearly half of public expenditure on security in the first nine months of the 2025 fiscal year, while the economy faced mounting pressures from falling incomes, migrant returns and trade disruptions, the World Bank said in its latest assessment. In its December 2025 Afghanistan Economic Monitor, the World Bank said security-related expenditure reached 96.9 billion Afghanis ($1.4 […]

A coordinated rebellion is quietly reshaping global finance – one that aims not just to escape dollar tyranny, but to bury it. “American hegemony helped provide public goods: open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes … We participated in the rituals and largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and […]