Fatin Anwar

Omani soldier inspecting a truck at the Oman-Yemen border. Source: Middle East Eye December 2025 saw events occur in Yemen that threatened to explode into wider instability. The Yemeni Civil War’s Sunni side, broadly speaking, had gone to war against one another. Saudi airstrikes on UAE-backed elements under the banner of the Southern Transition Council (STC) and Emirati military assets began after the STC launched a major military offensive, effectively opening a third front in the...

American forces seizing 'Skipper' on the 10th of December, 2025. Source: PBS Recently announced US tariffs against India have sent headlines tumbling, along with stock market numbers. Few might have foreseen this when tariffs were first imposed in August 2025. Yet, those tracking Indian actions since then had to have known that further plays were yet to come. And now, that play has come. The year 2026 has been off to a volatile start, but as it always turns out, the seeds for this were set...

Indian and British Army personnel wrapping up the Ajeya Warrior 2025 exercises. Source: ANI Since October 2025, the Indian Armed Forces have embarked on a series of military exercises along all of India’s borders with its neighbors. To keep the space off-limits to civilian traffic, NOTMARS and NOTAMs have been issued for continued military exercises until January 2026. Such a long list of notifications marking areas off-limits at different times and locations all the way until January 2026...