Après une enquête d’AP accusant une société de mercenaires américains de tirer sur des civils en quête d’aide à Gaza, la société a publié ce qu’elle présente comme de nouvelles images pour minimiser les retombées. Mais ces images ne font qu’accroître les accusations pesant sur cette opération entachée de scandales.
In the chaos following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, looting on a massive scale hit Syria’s armories. Tens of thousands of small arms and light weapons flowed into the hands of civilians, criminals, and armed groups in a country which already had a thriving illicit arms market and established smuggling networks. Failure to monitor and tackle the spread of these weapons could pose a major security threat to Syria itself and the wider region.
The U.S. dollar is tumbling as President Donald Trump’s economic agenda—at the executive and legislative level—takes full shape.
Economists told Newsweek this could advance Trump’s goal of promoting American goods in foreign markets and strengthening exports, but warn that a weakened dollar comes with significant downsides, including the jeopardization of its status as the world’s reserve currency.
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s three-year war against Ukraine has battered the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF). Ukrainian successes have largely forced the fleet to abandon its traditional Sevastopol base in Crimea for safer anchorage in the Sea of Azov and Novorossiysk on the Black Sea’s eastern coast (see EDM, November 8, 2022,November 15, 2023, January 17, March 26, August 13, 2024, June 27).
There are also concerns that the tunnels could be used to smuggle terrorists into Gaza.
The Egyptians chose to ignore the smuggling as long as the weapons were making their way into the Gaza Strip and not staying in Egyptian territory. After all, these weapons were being used against Israel, not Egypt. The weapons did not pose any threat to Egypt’s national security. In addition, Egyptian military and police officers apparently benefitted by accepting bribes.
Less than two weeks after rebel forces led by Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in Damascus to talk with the country’s new leader.
It was a meeting few could have predicted. Roughly a decade earlier, the U.S. had declared al-Sharaa — a onetime Al Qaeda commander who went by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani — a designated global terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head.
The investigation, based on field testimonies, satellite imagery, and internal communications, points to a chain of command that runs through the Ministry of Defense, with particular focus on its spokesperson, Hassan Abdel Ghani.
A new investigative report has uncovered the involvement of military factions affiliated with Syria’s Ministry of Defense in the killing of approximately 1,500 Alawite civilians across more than 40 locations in rural Latakia and Tartus during a three-day period in March 2025. The findings, published by Reuters, implicate at least 12 armed groups—half of which are under international sanctions for prior human rights violations—in a coordinated campaign of massacres that raises serious questions about command responsibility within Damascus.
How many people does Apartheid Israel have to kill before the World acts decisively to stop the killing? In 1960 the World responded to the killing of 69 Africans with Sanctions on Apartheid South Africa. By 25 April 2025 deaths from violence and deprivation in the Gaza Genocide totalled 680,000 but the World ignores deaths from imposed deprivation that are 4 times violent deaths. Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Apartheid Israel and all its supporters NOW.
High-profile figures from the former regime are being captured by the authorities in Damascus
Former warlord Ghazwan Al Salmoni carved a niche in the Syrian civil war, commanding an abduction and extortion ring that specialised in ambushing lorry cargo traffic near his home in the centre of the country.
L’écologie politique est régulièrement soupçonnée d’appartenir au camp conservateur – parce qu’elle critiquerait le « progrès », défendrait la nature ou encore les peuples autochtones. Certains considèrent même le risque d’un « écofascisme ». Ces critiques sont-elles fondées ? L’écologie politique est plutôt proche du socialisme, à travers une critique de l’ordre industriel et du marché au profit d’une société coopérative.