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Dispatches from a year of global conflict and uncertainty

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Israel opens new front in Gaza war

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Trump says he will end the war in Ukraine – but how, and who will benefit? Our panel responds

The US president is breaking every negotiating rule in the book, to the bewilderment of his allies. Europe is now at a crossroads, say Olga Chyzh, Frank Ledwidge and others

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World Update: Ukraine faces prospect of defeat – but the west must ensure a just peace

There’s a degree of irony that countries attending the 2024 Brics summit this week voted to adopt the Kazan declaration (named for the capital city of the autonomous republic of Tatarstan in Russia, where the summit is being held). The declaration’s first clause emphasises that “all states should act consistently…

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Incursion into Russia’s Kursk region: A risky gamble for Ukraine?

Russia on Friday raised the emergency level in the Kursk region to “federal” as Ukraine pressed on with a major cross-border incursion. Launched on Tuesday, Kyiv’s offensive is the most significant attack on enemy soil since the Ukraine war started in 2022 and could prove to be either very profitable…

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What the explosive testimony of a minister reveals about Britain’s war in Afghanistan – and its rogue special forces

The probe into 80 alleged SAS killings heard evidence from Johnny Mercer and highlighted the urgent need for oversight, says former military officer Frank Ledwidge

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IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

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IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

The Independent UK

IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

The Independent UK

Experts reveal what the winter will bring for the Ukraine war – and why Putin will be banking on Trump

Any significant changes now likely to take place off the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say

The Independent UK

IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

The Independent UK

Experts reveal what the winter will bring for the Ukraine war – and why Putin will be banking on Trump

Any significant changes now likely to take place off the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say

The Independent UK

IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

The Independent UK

IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

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IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

The Independent UK

IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

The Independent UK

IDF equipment: The full firepower Gaza faces if Netanyahu launches invasion

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

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Ukraine recap: Ukraine and allies maintain optimism despite slow progress on the battlefield

At a press conference after talks with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, this afternoon, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg sounded like a man determined to take a “glass half full” attitude when he said that “every metre that Ukrainian forces regain is a metre that Russia loses”.

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Time is running out for Ukraine’s counteroffensive. Its allies will be crucial in what comes next

With no military breakthroughs and a US election looming, the west needs to unite around an achievable goal for the conflict, says author Frank Ledwidge

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Does the west really want Ukraine to win the war? If so, increase military support

For all the fine words, the current piecemeal system of donations is not enough to sustain Ukrainian efforts to retake their land, says barrister Frank Ledwidge

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Ukraine recap: not a great deal to celebrate for Putin this Victory Day as Ukraine digs in for the long haul

One tank. According to press reports and news broadcasts from Moscow, a solitary T-34 dating back to the second world war was the only tank that trundled past the Russian president as he marked a scaled-down Victory Day on May 9 this year.

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The Pentagon leaks reveal the rot at the heart of US intelligence – but they haven’t hurt Ukraine

This latest cache of secret documents is yet another own goal by a pathologically confused security service, says barrister Frank Ledwidge

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Ukraine recap: how the conflict stands after 12 months of bitter fighting

It would be wrong to say that nobody saw this war coming. Vladimir Putin’s troops had been massing on the Ukraine border in Russia and its ally Belarus for some months. And, despite his assurances to the contrary, the president’s bellicose rhetoric and his insistence that Ukraine was an inalienable…

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Ukraine recap: world leaders gather at Davos to make the case for more military aid to Kyiv

“We’re tired of fighting Putin with rubbish kit”. This recent headline in The Times was an eloquent expression of the feelings of a Ukrainian tank sergeant, part of the 24th Mechanised Brigade fighting in Bakhmut in the country’s east. “Spider” Bogdan, whose Soviet-era T-62 had ground to a halt, dreams…

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The US must decide what ‘victory’ means in Ukraine – or waste even more lives there

Its support is critical to the conflict, but the US is failing to learn the lessons of its sprawling wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says former military officer Frank Ledwidge

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