US disengagement, increased defence spending, support for Ukraine, the war in Tehran. NATO’s most senior Italian official explains the strategy for reinventing Western defence. “Italy? Doing well, but further efforts are needed.” Interview

From the Tallinn fire to cyber-attacks against Western infrastructure, there is a growing reliance on intermediaries, criminal groups and operations that are difficult to attribute. Striking without exposing oneself is becoming part of the strategy to destabilise the West’s enemies. This is also the case in our country 

The United States is attempting, through "Operation Economic Outcast", to sever every economic link that still supports the regime. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called on international partners to join the US. The effectiveness of the sanctions, however, depends on one key player: China

Funds within the regime are beginning to run low, and the top political leaders of the Islamic Revolution are urging the hardliners in power to find a way out of the conflict. Although Tehran might be tempted by what analysts call ‘the October surprise’

August in Iran is the month of death sentences, echoing the 1988 massacre; amidst declarations of war and internal divisions between hardliners and pragmatists, the Iranian regime has for months continued to execute demonstrators with impunity

France is banking on cultural diplomacy as a tool of soft power, but for the Iranian regime this constitutes ‘blatant interference’ in its internal affairs. 

Pyongyang launches ten missiles just hours after the US offers new talks. But the provocation may come with a condition for returning to the negotiating table: recognition of North Korea as a nuclear power

For Trump, the Strait remains open; he says the United States “has complete control”. Even if it involves substantial resources and is only to allow a limited amount of oil to pass through, things are indeed moving forward. With a night-time operation by the US military

Neither cyber warfare nor an explosive drone attack in Leipzig on a Ukrainian cargo ship, nor the war of aggression against a European democracy, was enough to rouse the European Union and put an end to the endless debates over the ‘Rearm Europe’ programme

To topple the regime in Tehran, Trump needs the Emirates – but not only them