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Conflict minerals and wars over natural resources (Emma Saunders, Lisa Toremark – Chatham House)

Conflict minerals are minerals that are high in demand, which makes them valuable to conflict actors to extract and sell to fund armed groups....

Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war (UN News)

In Yemen, a decade of conflict has proved catastrophic for the country’s children living under the threat of airstrikes and staggeringly high malnutrition rates,...

Trump Threatens Iran to Secure New Talks (The Soufan Center)

Trump is employing military action against Iran’s allies, and threatening strikes on Iran itself, to induce Iranian leaders to agree to new talks on...

Critical Raw Materials and European Defence (IISS)

Security of supply issues are of growing concern for defence policymakers. This relates to components, platforms and munitions, but also to the raw materials...

China’s shadow fleet threatens Indo-Pacific communications (Mercedes Page, The Strategist)

China is using increasingly sophisticated grey-zone tactics against subsea cables in the waters around Taiwan, using a shadow-fleet playbook that could be expanded across...

Cyberattack hits Ukrainian state railway, disrupting online ticket sales (Daryna Antoniuk, The Record)

Kyiv’s central railway station was unusually crowded on Monday morning, with dozens of people waiting in long lines to buy tickets for travel within...

Boosting Interoperability of Joint Forces with AI: A Unified Language for Joint Warfighting (Richard Farnell, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs)

On 6 June 1944, Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower led the Allied multinational coordination of operation code-named Overlord, which took place on the...

How the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Became a Weapon for Moscow and Washington (Ksenia Luchenko, Carnegie Russia Eurasia)

This spring, a new Ukrainian law—“On the protection of the constitutional order in the activities of religious organizations”—comes into force. One of its goals...

Auditing the Auditors: Does Putin Trust Anyone Now? (Andrey Pertsev, Carnegie Russia Eurasia)

A new type of Russian bureaucrat has emerged in recent years: those appointed by President Vladimir Putin to oversee certain agencies or sectors, and...
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