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The entire Axis of Resistance has been involved in the escalation against the #UnitedStates and #Israel since October 7 and it is unclear how its non-Hamas members will react to the pause. (2/7) 
@TheStudyofWar This indicates that Iran and its proxies and partners may target #US interests outside of Iraq and Syria. 
#Israeli forces advanced to southern Tal al Hawa neighborhood, #Gaza City, on or around November 3. Israeli ground forces advanced along the northwestern #Gazan coast on November 4. 
This comes as the #Houthi movement
These attacks would simultaneously advance the affiliates’ transnational propaganda narratives while furthering their preexisting local campaigns. 2/5
The Nigerien military will need to compensate for the loss of Western troops, supplies, and funding. The junta’s most likely options would be strengthening civilian militias, as Burkina Faso did, or hiring the Kremlin-funded Wagner Group, like Mali did. 2/8
#Iranian weapon shipments into #Syria could trigger a new escalation cycle with #Israel that risks entangling US and Coalition forces. 2/9
#Russian sources claimed that Russian forces captured Masyutivka, Kharkiv Oblast (13km northeast of Kupyansk) and established a bridgehead on the west (right) bank of the Oskil River, although ISW has not observed visual confirmation of these claims. 2/5 
Russian forces conducted ground attacks northeast of Kupyansk and along the Kupyansk-Svatove line. 
#Russian forces continued limited ground attacks northeast of #Kupyansk and northwest of #Svatove on May 13. 
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) attempted to distract from and assuage information space paranoia over a potential Ukrainian counteroffensive on the Kharkiv-Luhansk front. 
Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks along the Svatove-Kreminna line on May 5. 2/6 
Russian forces continued ground attacks in and around Bakhmut and along the Avdiivka–Donetsk City line. 
@brian_cartr The #alQaeda and #IslamicState networks in Africa will likely seek to use the #Sudan conflict to improve their position on the continent. Numerous inmates escaped from a prison in #Khartoum city beginning on April 22 amid clashes between Sudan’s two warring factions. 
@TheStudyofWar Russian forces continued limited ground attacks near Kreminna on May 3. 
@TheStudyofWar Iranian reconstruction and economic partnership in Syria may include contracts for Iran’s Axis of Resistance in Syria, which would provide the groups with an alternative source of revenue to fund their military operations.
Iranian-backed #Syrian militias may be setting rhetorical conditions to attack US forces in response to #Israeli airstrikes in #Aleppo Province on May 1. (2/4) 