“The Autonomous Administration”: al-Sharaa’s decree is insufficient to protect Kurdish rights

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria commented on Saturday, 17 January 2026, on a decree issued by Syria’s transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, regarding Kurdish rights in Syria.

It said the decree could be considered a first step, but that it does not meet the aspirations and hopes of the Syrian people, who have made great sacrifices and waged a real revolution to obtain their legitimate rights and build a democratic state where everyone can live a free and dignified life based on justice and equality.

How Sudan’s shifting battlefield will test Egypt’s ‘red lines’

After El-Fasher’s fall, Egypt faces the choice of intervening in a war against UAE proxies, or standing by as its ‘red lines’ in Sudan fade into irrelevance

For nearly a thousand days, Egypt’s posture toward the civil war in Sudan was one of “strategic patience,” as Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty framed it.

Pakistan’s Reportedly Planned Arms Deal With Sudan Presages Problems For The UAE In Africa

Pakistan is functioning as the force multiplier in the Saudi-Turkish-Egyptian proxy campaign against the UAE in Africa that it’s finally participating in after sitting on the sidelines for so long.

Reuters recently reported that “Pakistan nears $1.5 billion deal to supply weapons, jets to Sudan”, which follows last month’s report from them that “Pakistan strikes $4 billion deal to sell weapons to Libyan force, officials say”. It was assessed after the last-mentioned report that “Pakistan Is Playing Second Fiddle To Turkiye In Afro-Eurasian Security” since there’s now a pattern of it clinching security deals with third countries like Azerbaijan, Somalia, and then Libya sometime after its Turkish strategic partner does.

Islamic Nato in making? How Turkish arms, Saudi cash and Pakistan nukes could align — all about the defence pact

Islamic Nato in the making? Turkey is seeking to join a defence alliance between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, this can be seen as an effort in direction to reshape security alignments in the Middle East region and beyond, as Bloomberg reported.The pact, initially signed by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in September, reportedly states that “any aggression” against one member would be treated as an attack on all — a provision that mirrors Article 5 of Nato, of which Turkey is a member and fields the second-largest military after the US.

The SDF’s Approach to Integration Talks in Syria and the Risk of Expanded Conflict

Recent clashes between Damascus and the Kurdish forces in Aleppo highlight the risk that stalling integration talks may trigger broader violence.

Since its signing on March 10, no tangible progress has been made on the eight-point agreement between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian Interim Government to facilitate SDF integration into the Interim Government’s armed forces. Instead, the talks have run past the agreement’s provision for implementation to be reached by the end of 2025, and violence between the two sides quickly unfolded in Aleppo once the talks stalled after the deadline.

Iran’s Regime Has Already Lost Its Most Potent Weapon

As protests grow, regime leaders have no clear options for scaring Iranians off the streets, intimidating foreign powers, or escaping their wider strategic crisis.

For all the military weapons remaining in the Iranian regime’s arsenal, it has finally been deprived of the one that authoritarians rely upon most: fear. For almost five decades, the Iranian regime has brutally repressed its own people while sowing mayhem in the Middle East and beyond. But the regime may have finally entered a strategic crisis from which it will not be able to escape.

How Syria’s Aleppo clashes in Kurdish districts are impacting Iraqi Kurdistan

What began as clashes in Aleppo’s Kurdish neighbourhoods is now reshaping life in Iraqi Kurdistan, from street protests to media shifts and refugee tensions.

Clashes between Syrian government forces and Kurdish armed groups in Ashrafia and Sheikh Maqsoud, Kurdish-populated neighbourhoods of Aleppo, have notably altered the political and social dynamics within Iraqi Kurdistan.

How Resistance Axis Interpreted Mutual Recognition Between Zionist Entity and “Somaliland”

The mutual recognition between the Zionist entity and the “Somaliland” region is merely the culmination of stages of secret communication. Through this recognition, the entity aims to solidify the division of Somalia and violate its sovereignty. More importantly, it seeks to infiltrate the strategically important Horn of Africa region, exploiting its strategic significance to destabilize the region’s security and stability, undermine its capabilities, and ultimately use it to establish military bases, alongside controlling key ports, as part of the Greater Middle East Project aimed at containing the sources of power in Arab and African countries.