Abstract: The Baloch insurgency in Pakistan has intensified sharply since the beginning of 2025, marked by sophisticated attacks such as the Jaffar Express hijacking by Baloch Liberation Army-Jeeyand faction (BLA-J) on March 11, 2025, which resulted in the kidnapping of more than 400 passengers and death of at least 26 hostages. Groups such as BLA-J, Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), and […]

Acier, circuits et stratégie. L’ascension de la Chine au rang de puissance mondiale s’est manifestée le plus visiblement par sa croissance économique et son développement technologique. Mais derrière le déploiement massif de ports, d’autoroutes et de la 5G se cache une autre force qui redessine discrètement les contours de la géopolitique : le complexe militaro-industriel. Bien plus qu’une simple base […]

Over the past three years, two U.K. companies with no prior record in the mining industry have won tens of millions of dollars in Uzbek state procurement contracts with a mining behemoth known as a “crown jewel” of Uzbekistan’s economy. One was owned, on paper, by a septuagenarian British bookkeeper with no evident ties to Central Asia. The other, by […]

Pakistani forces have killed at least 145 Baloch fighters after deadly militant attacks took the lives of dozens in Balochistan province. In a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks, which began early on Saturday at multiple locations across southwestern Balochistan, the militants linked to the banned separatist Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) had killed 48 people — including 17 security […]

Pakistan’s chief minister of Balochistan said security forces killed 145 militants within 40 hours following coordinated attacks across the province. Sarfraz Bugti told a news conference in Quetta on Sunday that the bodies of those killed were in the custody of security agencies. Pakistani media described the figure as the highest number of militants killed in such a short period […]

Managed Stability Sri Lanka entered 2026 with a security environment that remained broadly stable but layered with unresolved structural vulnerabilities rooted in post-war reconciliation failures, persistent diaspora activism, narcotics trafficking, and evolving regional security dynamics. While the country continued to record an absence of terrorism-linked fatalities, sustaining its position among the lowest-risk nations globally, the year nonetheless underscored the paradox […]

In recent years, there has been growing concern that the United States and China might find themselves in a war over Taiwan. Such worries overlook an important fact: Washington and Beijing are already at war. But as David Shedd and Andrew Badger document in their new book, The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets, only one side […]

La sécurité de l’Eurasie constitue un élément fondamental de la stabilité du système international. Alors que le processus de transition de puissance s’accélère au XXIe siècle, garantir une stabilité durable en Eurasie est devenu l’un des enjeux les plus critiques de la sécurité internationale. En avril 2022, le président chinois Xi Jinping a présenté l’«Initiative pour la sécurité mondiale (ISM)», […]

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 […]