ISWNews Analysis Group – Finally, after months of fierce and bloody battles to capture the key city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast, Russian army and Wagner forces took full control of this city, and the battles over the Bakhmut city ended.

ISWNews Analysis Group – On the night of May 18, Russian Army launched another massive attack on Ukrainian facilities across the country. It was largely rated as one of the most massive recent attacks.

ISWNews Analysis Group – Satellite images of Baghdad International Airport show that the United States is engaged in military and intelligence activities under the cover of conducting political and diplomatic measures.

ISWNews Analysis Group – Despite Russia’s control over more than 90% of the city of Bakhmut, clashes continue in the northwestern areas of the city between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

ISWNews Analysis Group – Russian Army launched a missile attack on Ukrainian infrustructures in the cities of Ternopil and Kharkiv last night and this morning.

ISWNews Analysis Group – The Shia resistance group of As’hab al-Kahf has issued a statement, saying that its forces discovered explosives and documents in one of the headquarters affiliated to the Norwegian Intelligence Service in Iraqi city of Basra.

ISWNews Analysis Group – On May 5, head of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin declared that Wagner fighters will leave the city of Bakhmut on May 10 and will hand over control of their positions to the units of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

ISWNews Analysis Group – The US Fifth Fleet released a video claiming the seizure of a Panama-flagged oil tanker by the forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the Strait of Hormuz.

ISWNews Analysis Group – Reacting to the last night strike of Russian kamikaze drones, the Ukrainian army attacked a military airport in Bryansk Oblast and fuel depots of Taman in Temryuksky District of Krasnodar Krai.

ISWNews Analysis Group – The residence of the President of the Russian Federation in Kremlin Palace in Moscow was attacked and hit by two unknown suicide drones.

ISWNews Analysis Group – One of the senior commanders of Al-Qaeda was killed in a US drone strike on the northern outskirts of Idlib province in Syria.

ISWNews Analysis Group – Following the battles in the city of Bakhmut in southeastern Ukraine, the Russian armed forces and their allies have taken control of more than 90 percent of the Ukrainian city.