No Olympic truce in the Middle East
After Fouad Cheker, head of Hezbollah's armed operations, killed on July 30, 2024, it is now Ismaël Hanyeh, the leader of Hamas abroad, who was eliminated today, July 31, 2024, by Israel. The first was [...]
The middle East redesigned by the American hawks
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has converted to the Israeli doctrine with regard to the Arab and Muslim world. Gunboat diplomacy prevailed: Afghanistan and Iraq for the US; Lebanon and [...]
The Golan Heights
Map published in Atlas of Near East, Brill, Amsterdam, 2017 On December 14, 1981, Israel officially annexed the Golan Heights occupied since 1967 by its army. This measure complicates its possible return to Syria because [...]
Atlas of the Near East
Cover Atlas of the Near East: State Formation and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1918-2010 The Atlas of the Near East offers an in-depth examination of the economic, social, and demographic dynamics of the Arab Near [...]
Iraq and Syria: Kurdish Autonomous Regions Under Threat
Published on March 4, 2023 in Groupe d'Etudes Géopolitiques In November of 2022, Turkey bombed Kurdish forces in Syria and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in Northern Iraq in retaliation for the attack in Istanbul [...]