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Trump pushes full Ukraine peace deal as DC protests federal takeover, while conflicts rage from Sudan to Myanmar. It Sunday, August 17th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Exploring the recent Democratic Republic of Congo conflict: Rwandan support for M23 rebel group escalates tension, demands an urgent global response.
Cyprus’ fragility has only become more fluid due to the toothless fortitude of the United Nations and the inability of British troops on the isle. Turkey, like Russia, feeds off appeasement and indecisiveness by the EU, NATO, and UN to condemn their aggression and violations over Hellenic air and naval space and continued settlement buildup in the occupied areas of Cyprus.
The recent assault on UN peacekeepers by Turkish Cypriot forces in Cyprus, following an attempt to halt unauthorized road construction within the island’s buffer zone, marks a dangerous escalation of tensions and underscores the complex historical disputes, territorial claims, and divergent visions for the island’s future.
As soon as the Russians began moving into the Central African Republic, the disinformation program against France began.
A supposed sanctuary turned into a nightmare—the UN’s failure in Congo is measured in the lives of the girls they were meant to protect.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to renew the mandate for a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon on Wednesday, following tense negotiations amid US and Israeli criticism that UN troops should do more to stop Hezbollah from receiving arms shipments. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) – established in 1978 – patrols Lebanon’s southern […]
Gunmen attacked a United Nations peacekeeping base in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu on Monday, officials said, killing seven people, including five Malian security guards, a gendarme and civilian. “An attack has been launched against one of our camps in Timbuktu (by) unknown men with machine guns,” Radhia Achouri, a spokeswoman for the U.N. […]
General Cirilito “Lito” Sobejana joined the Golan Heights United Nations mission in 2013 as the Chief of Staff of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) responsible for ensuring that Syria and Israel do not violate the Agreement on Disengagement that they signed at the end of the 1973 Yom-Kippur War. For Sobejana and his Philippine […]
African powers launched a new multinational military force to tackle Islamist militants in the Sahel on Sunday, which French President Emmanuel Macron told a regional summit should be fully operational by the autumn despite its current budget shortfall. Some observers see the initiative of the G5 Sahel bloc – Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and […]
The merger of Mali’s main jihadist groups earlier this month was endorsed on Friday by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), whose leader rallied other jihadist organizations to follow suit and “achieve unity”. The SITE Intelligence Group quoted AQIM’s Abu Musab Abdul Wadud congratulating the groups for joining forces under the command of veteran […]
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday directed fresh verbal attacks at the Netherlands amid their growing diplomatic spat, holding the country responsible for Europe’s worst mass killing since World War II. In a televised speech, Erdogan referred to the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, […]
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