Origin Story—"Wild, Wild West Beirut"

In December 1983, six blasts shook Kuwait’s capital city. Two prominent Hezbollah operatives oversaw the attack. Soon, bombs were going off in Paris, Copenhagen, and Saudi Arabia, while other members of the group hijacked TWA Flight 847 and murdered U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem ...  Show more

South America’s Tri-Border Area has been described as “the United Nations of crime.” Along the porous borders of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, counterfeiters scheme, narco-traffickers move product and launder funds, and criminals sell fake or stolen goods on the open market. S ...  Show more

Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss has scrapped a plan to link public sector pay to local living costs, within hours of announcing it. The BBC’s Nick Eardley runs us through the latest. Also, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who plotted the 9/11 terror attacks with Osama ...  Show more

<u>Invités</u> :

Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow à l’ECFR


Rym Momtaz, Consultant Research Fellow à l’IISS

Elie Tenenbaum, directeur du centre des études de sécurité de l’IFRI

L’article de Susan Maloney : <a href="https://gate.sc?url=https%3A%2 ...

The inside story of a wave of assassinations in Yemen, led by former US Special Forces. An investigation by BBC Arabic has found evidence that the United Arab Emirates hired American mercenaries to train Emirati officers to assassinate political enemies in Yemen. It's triggered a ...  Show more

This week, in Israel, Ben had two conversations about the television show Fauda. On Tuesday, Ben spoke with Avi Issacharoff, the show's co-creator and a journalist at the Times of Israel and Walla!. Then, on Thursday, Ben talked to ...