Eurasia

Arab countries expressed ‘deep concern’ over an escalation of conflict in the Middle East, following Saturday’s Iranian drone attacks on Israel. Arab states on Sunday responded to Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel, with many expressing “concern” over an escalation of violence, while urging for “restraint” from all parties. Late on …

On the night of April 14, 2024, Iran launched a barrage of 170 attack drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles toward Israel, with 99% of them eventually intercepted by air defenses. According to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, no drones or cruise missiles managed …

Il y a un peu plus de quatre ans, le 3 janvier 2020, Donald Trump faisait assassiner le général iranien Soleimani, architecte de ce qu’on appelle «l’Axe de la Résistance» à la politique israélo-américaine au Proche-Orient. La mort du stratège n’a pas signifié la fin de sa stratégie. Au contraire, …

Despite the ongoing war, the states in the Gulf Cooperation Council still see Israel as a legitimate regional player and reject Hamas’s call for radical violence. Nearly six months ago, Hamas upended the Middle East equilibrium. Now, with the war in Gaza still raging, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has …

The widening schism between Israel’s secular and ultra-Orthodox communities impacts not only the state’s military and economic wellbeing, but poses an existential threat to the stability of the entire Zionist project. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, known as the Haredim, is the fastest-growing segment of the country’s population. This demographic shift …

Once celebrated as a prime sanctuary for foreign investments in the Mediterranean, Turkish Cyprus has come under fire for allowing Israeli entities to purchase large swathes of property on the strategically significant island. ter obtained TRNC citizenship, have the right to unlimited property acquisition because they are officially registered as …

To understand what happened last night during Iran’s direct attack on Israel, one has to go back four years to the killing by the United States of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani. Iran needed to react symbolically in retaliation to save face and asked to do so. The United …

Latest Developments The Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at Israel overnight between April 13 and April 14. The attacks, which came in tandem with Iran’s launch of hundreds of drones and missiles targeting the Jewish state, targeted an Israeli army base in the Golan Heights. …

Abstract: Through its promotion and dissemination of disinformation, Russia’s practice of public diplomacy forms a close nexus with information warfare. While Russia no doubt seeks to win the hearts and minds of foreign state publics, its strategic aim in doing so is not to build sincere two-way cultural bridges but …

The Israel–Hamas war has confirmed the ability of non-state actors, even more so than governments in some cases, to determine the course of events in the region. Unlike governments, regional non-state actors recognize few constraints on their behavior, in part because most militias, terrorist groups, and insurgent factions do not …