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US military strikes Islamic State group targets in Syria, officials say (BBC)

The US and its partner forces have carried out large-scale strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria, the US Central Command (Centcom)...

Trump declares national emergency to shield Venezuelan oil cash (AXIOS)

President Trump declared a national emergency to shield Venezuelan oil revenue held by the U.S. government from seizure by private creditors, framing it as...

Crypto Crime Reaches Record High in 2025 as Nation‑State Sanctions Evasion Moves On‑Chain at Scale (Chainalysis)

In 2025, we tracked a notable rise in nation-state activity in crypto, marking the latest phase in the maturation of the illicit on-chain ecosystem....

The one issue where Democrats think Trump is right (Politico)

Donald Trump’s broadside against the defense industry might sound like a populist cry targeting wealthy CEOs. But the president’s tirade was actually building for...

From Sanctions to the Scrapyard: Confronting a Growing Environmental Threat (Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin – RUSI)

The global sanctions landscape has driven the emergence of an extensive shadow fleet of tankers used to move sanctioned oil. Despite the spotlight on...

Farming is Critical to UK National Security (Ed Arnold – RUSI)

In 2024, the UK's total agricultural labour force was 452,900 or 1.3% of the total workforce, spanning 209,000 farm holdings across 69% of the...

The Evolution of Russian and Chinese Air Power Threats (Justin Bronk – RUSI)

In 2020, RUSI published papers on the potential threats posed to Western forces by Russian and Chinese combat air capabilities and ground-based air defence...

Iran is rewriting its rules of war—and raising the stakes for everyone (Roohola Ramezani – ASPI The Strategist)

Iran’s long-standing era of strategic patience appears to be ending. A newly articulated doctrine of preemption—dangerously vague and publicly declared—suggests a regime that sees...

Facing China’s threat, Australia–Japan alignment is indispensable (Carlyle Thayer – ASPI The Strategist)

The deteriorating strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific makes an Australia-Japan defence alignment central to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific by deterring China in...

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