Following the capture of El Fasher, the capital of Sudan, North Darfur, by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (hereinafter: RSF) on 26 October 2025, reports of mass atrocities and a severe humanitarian crisis have escalated across Sudan. The city, which had been the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (hereinafter: SAF) in Darfur, has been the...
The Republic of Sudan is experiencing a significant escalation in its internal conflict following the loss of the critical city of El Fasher, located in the North Darfur state, to the Rapid Support Forces (hereinafter: RSF). This territorial shift, which occurred in the final week of October 2025, has been accompanied by a severe deterioration...
With the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, fleeing the lands he and his family governed for almost 50 years, Syria is now a failed state in the definitional sense. Although being dysfunctional for most of the past century, the collapse of the Syrian government is another case in a series of failed states in Sub-Anatolian...