Briefing Room 07.02.26

Welcome back to The Briefing Room, the weekly show that rolls its eyes at the headlines before opening 50 different tabs from specialists, blogs, and little-known trade publications to find out what's really happening in the world. And what's happening is all sorts of shenanigans.

Over at the border between Thailand and Cambodia, simmering tensions keep threatening to re-errupt into another round of fighting.

In Libya, assassins took out the son of former Botox lover and all-around despot Muammar Gaddafi. And in Somalia, the latest moves were undertaken in the emerging great game between a Saudi-led alliance on one hand and an Emirati and Israeli one on the other. A game that could determine the future of the entire MENA region.