CONFLICTED

2025 Year in Review

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As 2025 draws to a close, Thomas and Aimen take an unconventional tour of the Islamic world — looking beyond the usual headlines to the under-the-radar shifts that happened in 2025, with the potential to shape 2026 and beyond.

They discuss:

  • Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger forming the Alliance of Sahel States and what a new Sahel bloc might mean
  • The geopolitical ‘cluster fuck’ of the Sudanese civil war
  • The European Union’s re-entry into Central Asia
  • The Gabala Summit and the rising Turkic axis
  • How Bangladesh is diversifying away from India
  • Southern Thailand’s Malay-Muslim insurgency and why it’s so rarely discussed
  • In Iraq, Kata’ib Hezbollah and the breakdown of state sovereignty


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