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Germany braces against Russian gray-zone pressure, Washington greenlights action on Venezuela’s state-run cartel, and a filmed killing in Jenin sends another shock through an already volatile region, all signaling how fast today’s conflicts can widen when fragile lines snap. Welcome to Saturday, November 29, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

From London boardrooms to Washington power plays and the tunnels of Gaza, November 9, 2025, proved that truth, power, and redemption still come at a price—whether it’s the BBC losing its crown, Trump promising tariff-fueled salvation, or Israel finally bringing one of its own home. It’s Sunday evening, November 9th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.

Trump’s cease-fire, built on wishful thinking that Hamas would police itself, stripped away Israel’s deterrent, let a hostile force regroup, and proved that without regional ownership of security and accountability, “peace” is a photo op and a pause before the next round.

Trump rattled the saber then slid it back in the scabbard, as a disputed breach strains Gaza’s shaky ceasefire and one careless trigger pull could light the whole map.

When devils start pricing snow tires and pitchforks double as ski poles, you know the ceasefire paperwork is real enough to fog a mirror, even if the lava in the background stays at a slow simmer.

Amid a fragile ceasefire and aid stacked at the gates, Mansour spoke at length yet never said whether Hamas will disarm, the only answer that could turn a pause into peace.

Two hundred American troops will sit at the edge of Gaza, acting like air traffic controllers for a fragile truce, keeping aid lanes open, logging every breach in real time, and pressing partners to fix problems before the rumor mill sparks fresh shooting.

Two years after 7 October, the Middle East feels like riding around in the desert in a Humvee with a grenade with the pin half-pulled, grinding from Gaza to the Red Sea while diplomats in Cairo try to keep the spoon down and stop hostages, rockets, and headlines from detonating at once.

The two-state solution cannot be seriously considered without acknowledging the corrosive role of Iran’s proxy militancy and the cycle of violence it sustains between Israelis and Palestinians.

A two-state solution may hold the promise of peace and self-determination, but the hard truths of history, security fears, and fractured leadership continue to stand in its way.

From hypersonic launches in the Arctic and drone incursions over NATO skies to Qatar’s fury at an airstrike on its soil and Beijing branding Trump’s tariffs as economic blackmail, the world is staring down a storm of flashpoints that prove great powers are testing every boundary at once. Welcome to Monday, September 15th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

In the space of a few seconds, a Jerusalem bus stop turned from a commuter choke point into a kill zone, and only the fast trigger pull of a soldier and armed civilians kept the body count from climbing higher.