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Karmalla Ahmed is the Director and Chief Editor of Silent Dossier, a graduate of King’s College London specialising in military affairs. Every article on Silent Dossier is published under this byline. See our standards and corrections policy.
Lithuania’s parliament advanced a bill lifting its constitutional ban on nuclear weapons. What Peskov, Medvedev and Putin said before and after the vote.
Saudi-backed forces have retaken ground on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, but the war will be settled at Taiz and by how long Saudi Arabia can absorb Houthi missiles. Patriot stocks, the economy and the Mecca Pact set the endgame.
Pezeshkian calls US talks meaningless as Vance, Rubio and Trump give three accounts of why B-1 bombers left RAF Fairford. What was said and how it fits.
A technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute died after reportedly breaking a tube of plague bacteria, and about 200 contacts are isolated. Russia calls it pneumonia of unknown cause. A country at war is not a reliable narrator of its own outbreak.
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan invoked the Mecca Pact on October 5 as Rubio backed Riyadh’s right to defend itself but named no US action.
Saudi Arabia has formally joined Yemen’s war with 100 fighter jets behind Operation Dawn of Yemen. The Houthis overreached at Taiz for Iran’s agenda, are losing Bab el-Mandeb and Mokha, and cannot recover.
Moscow told diplomats to leave Kyiv before more strikes. Peskov, Rubio, Merz and four European embassies answered in different terms. What each said.
SPA reported that Saudi research chief Munir Eldesouki joined the STS Forum Council during a Kyoto meeting on AI openness. Saudi Arabia already lists national AI governance frameworks; the next test is whether agencies apply them to research data, model openness and access.
Ghalibaf says Hormuz stays shut until seven conditions are met, Araghchi rules out a military solution, and a third US carrier heads toward Iran. What was said and how it fits.
The Pentagon has pulled every US bomber out of RAF Fairford in a rushed departure, a week after a plot that fell apart. Iran won this round without firing a shot. It has not won the war, and Washington now has to answer.
France’s high-school protests have no leader and no demands, and police cannot negotiate with them. After more than 5,000 arrests in a week, the TikTok-driven revolt will not topple Macron, who is leaving anyway. It will be hijacked, and the far right is best placed to collect.
Sisi hosted the leaders of Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia as Ethiopian forces took Mekelle. The message to Abiy Ahmed is plain: Ethiopia’s war of distance against Egypt is over, and an attack on Eritrea would mean fighting four states.
Iran’s March strike on Prince Sultan Air Base cost Saudi Arabia one of its two RE-3 surveillance jets. That explains Riyadh’s calls for British tankers and allied intelligence before a major offensive against the Houthis, and the Houthis cannot stop it.
Hegseth calls the Hormuz blockade ironclad, Trump offers Iran the easy way or the hard way, and Pezeshkian says the economic war failed. What each said and how it fits.
Rubio released the $320 million Washington used to withhold from Egypt, crediting Cairo’s role in the Iran war. In the same weeks, Israeli media turned on a railway across Sinai. Both stories say the same thing: Egypt has made itself indispensable, and a developed Sinai is what Israel fears most.
Biden’s former national security adviser told Silent Dossier that Sisi was candid with Washington, blamed Congress for Egypt’s aid cuts, refused to discuss Rafah and said the Gaza war and Palestinian demands stopped Saudi normalization. The Congress answer does not hold up.
The Hormuz response needs delivery records separating March commitments from extra supply.
A Houthi drone hit the power station serving the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina. Saudi Arabia will answer with overwhelming force once US troops rejoin the war after the midterms, and the signs of that return are already visible.
Drones are reaching Addis Ababa, Eritrea has cut ties and Abiy Ahmed’s answer is to blame Egypt without evidence. Cairo’s same-night expulsion of an Ethiopian counsellor was a warning: the next step is ambassadors.
Seoul says Kyiv broke a confidentiality deal over two North Korean prisoners, then denied it. What Lee, Sybiha and Zelensky’s side have said, and what to watch.
