Global Islamism Monitor No. 123
The Kremlin comes around on the Taliban;
Syria's crisis equals new opportunities for the Islamic state;
UNWRA has a radicalism problem
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China Policy Monitor No. 1619
China trades weapons to Houthis in exchange for Red Sea passage;
PRC hackers access U.S. treasury workstations and documents;
China approves construction of mega-dam in Tibet;
China rolls out nationwide private pension plan;
Beijing raises the retirement age
Russia Policy Monitor No. 2660
Persecuting Navalny, continued;
A shakeup in the Russian intelligence ranks;
Moscow looks to Africa;
Finland fights back;
Homegrown resistance to academic propaganda
Indo-Pacific Monitor No. 41
South Korea martial law debacle leaves U.S. regional priorities in doubt;
Signs of a thaw between Washington and Phnom Penh;
Thailand has it both ways on space exploration;
North Korean soldiers confirmed dead in Ukraine;
Pacific Island nations tentatively open protected seabeds
Israel Faces a Reshuffled Strategic Deck in Syria
Suddenly, Israel has a Syria problem. For years, officials in Jerusalem had banked on a relatively predictable balance of power with the neighboring regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Despite Assad's enduring hostility toward the Jewish state and the inherent weakness of his regime, a tenuous status quo had been struck between the two countries, making it generally possible to anticipate how the Syrian dictator would behave. This has served as a perverse source of comfort over the past 14 months, as Israel has found itself preoccupied with the threat of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and more recently, that of Hezbollah in Lebanon.