Eurasia

As the war between Israel and Hamas stretches into its fifth consecutive day, Israel is attempting to keep the conflict contained to prevent further escalation that could bring Hezbollah or Iran into the fight. Sending a carrier strike group to the Middle East serves as an unequivocal message that the …

The October 7 Hamas cross-border assault on Israel will upend the geopolitics of the region and prompt a reconsideration of many of the assumptions underpinning U.S. and allied policy toward the Middle East. Although Iran’s role in the attack is contested, its role as orchestrator of an “axis of resistance” …

Washington now sees Hamas the same way as Isis and could offer help killing senior leaders The US will support Israeli plans for targeted assassinations of senior Hamas officials, a former CIA analyst specialising in the Middle East has told i. Israel has a long record of using assassinations against …

Current and former U.S. officials say decades of Iranian arms, funding and training made the worst terrorist attack on Israel in decades possible. American officials are investigating whether some of the Hamas militants who carried out the unprecedented attack on Israel received advanced training from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, …

The U.S. shootdown of a Turkish armed drone in northeastern Syria demonstrates the potential for unintended conflict when so many actors are operating militarily in one space. Türkiye and the United States continue to differ on the prominent role that Kurds play in the U.S.-led effort to suppress Islamic State …

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared Israel to be “at war” following a complex and multi-pronged cross-border attack by Hamas into southern Israel on October 7. The sophistication of the attack caught Israeli leaders by surprise and will lead to a reevaluation in terms of the threat to regional security, …

Bulent Kenes, a Turkish journalist who was editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper Today’s Zaman, was arrested in October 2015 for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison for criticizing the president on Twitter. In 2016, an arrest warrant released by Erdogan regime for …

Contrary to popular belief, Hamas is not just flip-flop hijackers with rusty Kalashnikovs and suicide bombers wrapped in cheap explosives. Hamas has been busy for many years with its scientific program, which included developing weapons of mass destruction and electronic intelligence. Iran is actively helping the program, but Gaza already …

Le site Al-Mayadeen a rapporté le 12 octobre courant que les Américains ont demandé à Israël de se concentrer sur Gaza et de leur laisser le soin de s’occuper du Hezbollah libanais. C’est ce que le commentateur des affaires militaires, Alon Ben David, aurait déclaré sur une chaîne de télévision …

The Washington Post produced an information warfare product, not a piece of journalism like its article is inaccurately presented to the masses as being. The Washington Post (WaPo) just published a piece alleging that “After Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan eyes a strategic strip of Armenia”, which fearmongers that an East-West trans-Armenian connectivity …