Geostrategy-Direct, November 11, 2025 Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s interim president who was once a wanted terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head and even served time in the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, November 4, 2025 While signaling that Hamas could hand over power in Gaza, Turkey also appears to be angling for a leading role in the post-war rebuilding of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 28, 2025 U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have made back-to-back visits to the new U.S. Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Israel (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 21, 2025 In an interview with the UAE publication Al-Ain, Bishara Bahbah, an American activist who has come to be known as “the accidental intermediary” in the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 15, 2025 The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has effectively battled the Islamic State (ISIS) since its formation 10 years ago, has accepted U.S. President Donald Trump’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 8, 2025 President Donald Trump last week declared the U.S. is at war with drug cartels, designating them as enemy combatants. In targeting cartels, Trump said in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, October 1, 2025 Though it no longer controls major cities and wide swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State (ISIS) remains an “active and serious” (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, September 24, 2025 Iran, the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism; Pakistan, the world’s only nuclear-armed Muslim state; and Egypt, which boasts the Arab world’s largest army, are (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct, September 17, 2025 The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 15, 2020, by Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. They were mediated and supported (more…)
