After Donald Trump warned that Iran would face a very powerful strike with a wider range of targets, it quickly became clear that this was no ordinary military operation and that the strikes were aimed directly at the country’s critical infrastructure.

As Iranian strikes expanded beyond U.S. bases in the Gulf and official threats of military retaliation mounted, questions intensified over whether the Gulf states might be drawn—against their will—into the fire of war.

The Trump administration is pushing to resolve the Western Sahara conflict through Morocco’s autonomy plan, amid tentative Algerian engagement and Polisario insistence on a referendum.

The sudden U.S. aggression on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, Nicolas Maduro, in early January 2026, sent shockwaves across the region, revealing sharply contrasting reactions from Iran and the Israeli Occupation.

In October 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “There will be no Hamas in Gaza.” Yet, by January 2025, this bold proclamation had shifted dramatically to: “We are awaiting Hamas’s response to the ceasefire proposal.”