Author: M Barbu

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood, once Egypt’s largest opposition movement and a standard-bearer for Islamist groups around the world, has been once again driven underground as Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has consolidated power.

Introduction

The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt’s oldest and largest Islamist organization, with offshoots throughout the Arab world. The Brotherhood renounced violence in the 1970s and earned popular support by providing social services such as pharmacies, hospitals, and schools.

Trump’s Next Big Deal Awaits in Africa

President Donald Trump’s reshaping of U.S. diplomacy has touched only the tip of the iceberg in Africa but the vast continent, home to more than 1.5 billion people and large shares of critical resources, has increasingly demonstrated its significance on the international stage.

We Are Not Fooled by You, Hamas

On October 13, 2025, at Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the company of US President Donald J. Trump, declared the war in Gaza over.

Oh, really? Sadly, the probability of an enduring peace with Hamas or allied Islamists appears close to zero. After all, in Netanyahu’s words, Israel is dealing with “monsters.”

«L’islamisme instaure une contre-culture patiente et méthodique en Europe!»

Selon l’essayiste et ancien agent du Service action de la DGSE, Français et Britanniques cèdent le terrain aux islamistes. Seule une riposte ferme, structurée et spirituelle, résolue à combattre l’islamisme visible et à maitriser strictement l’immigration, peut éviter un basculement sociétal tragique. Réaffirmer un projet national enraciné dans les valeurs judéo-chrétiennes et républicaines est une nécessité, selon lui.

The Future of the Illicit Captagon Drug Trade

Abstract: The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December 2024 may have disrupted large-scale production of the illicit drug captagon, but the trade has, by no means, disappeared from the black market. Instead, a new, post-Assad Syria marks a shift in this illicit trade, from state monopoly over production and trafficking to non-state entrepreneurialism in the captagon trade. The remnants of the captagon trade now lie in the hands of warlords, tribes, prominent families, armed militias, and terrorist organizations seeking to engage in captagon production and trafficking as a lucrative alternative revenue stream. With the Assad regime no longer holding a monopoly over the supply of captagon, new non-state actors are seeking to fill a vacuum both inside and outside of Syria, moving production and trafficking sites to new contested areas. The result is not an eradicated captagon trade, but a more complicated, challenging landscape for regional governments.

What trials and punishments await Hamas’s Nukhba terrorists in Israeli prisons? – analysis

The question of what should happen to the terrorists who committed the October 7 massacre remains at large. Now, after the release of the final living hostages, it will finally begin to be answered.

The last living hostages are home. Many have already left the hospital. The images of their reunions with loved ones are still fresh in the nation’s mind. A sense of relief is still palpable.

Lake Chad Basin’s military bases in ISWAP’s crosshairs

Lake Chad Basin’s military bases in ISWAP’s crosshairs

Remote and poorly resourced outposts are soft targets for attacks, and a weak point in regional counter-terrorism efforts.

At least 15 confirmed Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacks have targeted military outposts across the Lake Chad region this year. Common to this campaign, which the group calls Camp Holocaust, is that the targets were isolated, under-resourced, and often in border zones where state presence is lacking.

Gaza : la résistance élimine un à un les gangs qui ont collaboré avec les occupants

La vaste campagne de sécurité menée par le Hamas pour éliminer les gangs armés qui ont collaboré avec l’armée israélienne pendant la guerre s’intensifie. «Nos opérations les élimineront tous, sans exception», a déclaré une source sécuritaire du Hamas à Mondoweiss.

À présent, la vidéo est devenue virale. Des hommes armés masqués affiliés au Hamas dans le camp de réfugiés de Nuseirat, au centre de Gaza, alignent un groupe d’hommes aux mains liées tandis que des spectateurs se rassemblent autour d’eux.