Modern Germany, due to its involvement in both World Wars and the Cold War, has long supported pacifism and the rules-based international order, but recently has shifted dramatically and now plans to have the strongest conventional military in Europe by 2039.

For nearly the entire last decade and a half, the Syrian people have been caught in a brutal civil war, during which the Russian and Iranian-backed Bashar al-Assad regime fought against various rebel groups, including Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda-backed militias. Now, Syria led by a new president.

On April 26th , 2026, for the first time in Mali’s history, a series of devastating, coordinated terror attacks was carried out across the country, resulting in hundreds of casualties, including the death of Mali’s defense minister, Sadio Camara.