Tensions escalate in the Middle East after an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh, targeting Hezbollah, kills civilians and brings about fears of broader conflict The Israeli assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh hours after targeting senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut caps a week of unprecedented escalation in the region …
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Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh killed while visiting Iran
While no party has claimed responsibility, the Gaza-based militant group immediately accused Israel of being behind the killing. Hamas’ top political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Tehran, the Palestinian faction said in a statement released early Wednesday morning. The residence where Haniyeh was staying in northern Tehran “was …
Read More »Iran Calls for ‘Immediate Action’ Against Israel Over Strike on Hezbollah
Iran’s envoy to the United Nations has issued a call for action against Israel over its recent strike against a leading Hezbollah military official amid worsening tit-for-tat attacks against the backdrop of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, according to a letter shared with Newsweek. The letter, sent by …
Read More »Life of defiance: Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas political boss, killed
For many, Haniyeh will remain a symbol of resistance in the face of Israeli occupation. Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Tehran at the age of 62 in what the Palestinian group has described as “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence”. Haniyeh, who briefly served as …
Read More »Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran
Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran where he had been attending the president’s inauguration. Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that runs the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, which blamed Israel for his killing. Haniyeh and one …
Read More »How BBC Open Source Journalists Investigate, Analyze, and Verify Information from Gaza
The news headlines that emerged after the October 7 attack — when Hamas and a coalition of other militant groups launched a coordinated armed incursion into Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds — described it as a “surprise” attack.
Read More »After Eliminating Ismail Haniyeh, Israel’s Hunt for Hamas Leaders Continues
Latest Developments The strike in Tehran on July 31 that killed Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s most senior political leader, brings to four the number of Hamas’s top leaders eliminated since the October 7 atrocities in southern Israel. Prior to the killing of Haniyeh — who was in Tehran for the inauguration …
Read More »Turkey Threatens to Invade Israel
Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory posture in the developing conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. At a party conference in his hometown Rize, Erdogan …
Read More »Did Westerners, Ukrainians, And Islamists Help Tuareg Rebels Ambush Wagner In Mali?
The Tuareg Conflict is on pace to become another proxy war between Russia and the West. Speculation is swirling in the days after Tuareg rebels ambushed Wagner in Mali, which readers can learn more about here and here, to suggest that they had the support of Westerners, Ukrainians, and Islamists. …
Read More »American Officials Told Politico Their Plan For Waging Hybrid War Against Wagner In Africa
While America is ramping up its operations to counter Wagner’s growing popularity across Africa, it lacks the credibility to advance its goal through information warfare alone as proven by its failures in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan, which are …
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