FNA Digest Analysis: 25 October 2026
A Day of Widening Wars, Strategic Pressure and Lost Openings for Peace The international news of 25 October 2026 offered…
Two Wars Without an End: Who Is Winning in Ukraine and the US/Israel–Iran Conflict?
An assessment of the military and strategic position as of 21 August 2026 There is a recurring pattern at the…
SITREP: West Asia’s Cascading Conflict System & the Impact on Africa
The central analytical judgement is that West Asia is no longer balancing on the edge of an Iran–Israel war; it…
Mali’s Weekend Shock: Bamako Holds As Wider Sahel Offensive Is Crushed
Mali has entered another dangerous phase in its long-running security crisis after a wave of coordinated attacks struck the country…
Ukraine’s Forgotten War: The Endgame Is Nearer, But Not Simpler
While the world’s attention has shifted sharply toward West Asia, the war in Ukraine has not slowed into irrelevance. It…
Russia Moves Into the Gulf Endgame as Iran Shapes the Post-War Settlement
Russia has moved more openly into the diplomatic centre of the Iran crisis, after President Vladimir Putin met Iranian Foreign…
The Persian Gulf War Explained: Israel First and the Fracturing of Trumpism
How Max Blumenthal argues that the Iran war exposed foreign influence, donor power and a civil war inside MAGA If…
Persian Gulf War & the Ceasefire Illusion: West Asia Still on the Brink
West Asia is once again trapped in that most unstable of conditions: neither peace nor war. A ceasefire may still…
New Axis of Power: How Russia and China Changed the Rules for Washington
Veteran journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar says the U.S.–Iran standoff has reached “the razor’s edge,” with a fateful decision…