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Iran Begins Annual War Games Ahead Of Scheduled Talks On Reviving Nuclear Deal (RFE RL)

Iran has begun annual war games, state TV reported on November 7, less than a month before a scheduled fresh round of talks on...

Ethiopian government rallies protesters against Tigrayan rebels (Al Jazeera)

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have pledged to defend the capital from advancing rebels during a pro-military rally where attendees dismissed diplomatic efforts to...

Libya set to open registration for election candidates (Al Jazeera)

Libya’s High National Elections Commission says it will open registration on Monday for candidates in presidential and parliamentary elections that have been mandated by...

Sudan security forces fire tear gas as anti-coup strikes begin (Al Jazeera)

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas at multiple anti-coup rallies, with protesters in several cities joining a call for two-days of civil disobedience and...

Iran holds large-scale military drill after US navy confrontation (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s army is holding a large-scale sea, land and air military drill, which comes shortly after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and United...

Morocco’s king says Western Sahara status not up for debate (Al Jazeera)

Morocco’s King Mohamed VI has said that Western Sahara is “not negotiable”, as tensions flared with Algeria over the disputed territory. Speaking on Saturday, the...

A New Quad in the Western Indian Ocean (Sankalp Gurjar, RUSI)

On 18 October, the foreign ministers of India, Israel, the US and the UAE held a meeting and formed a joint working group. The meeting discussed...

UK Intelligence Agencies and the Commercial Cloud: What Does It All Mean? (Ardi Janjeva and James Sullivan, RUSI)

A recent Financial Times report confirmed the procurement of a high-security cloud system by the UK’s intelligence community. The hosting of sensitive intelligence data on non-government systems...

How to Unlock the National Security Strategy (Sir David Omand GCB and Suzanne Raine, RUSI)

On 19 September, Parliament’s Joint Committee on National Security Strategy reported on the UK’s national security machinery. It identified serious weaknesses in the government...

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