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Through the smoke rising from Sweida and the embers glowing along Syria’s coastline, the contours of a deeply fractured nation emerge. What’s unfolding in Syria today is not simply the latest chapter in a prolonged civil conflict. It is the manifestation of a more insidious transformation—one that is quietly redrawing ...
The US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—announced with characteristic bravado by President Donald Trump—was framed as a “highly successful” operation. But beneath the surface of military theater, the strike carries deeper messages and calculated signals. Timing, tone, and restraint reveal more than the explosions themselves. ...
