Eurasia

Resurrecting Arafat in Beirut?

Hamas, with Hezbollah’s help, is building up a military presence in Lebanon, whose ultimate consequences could be devastating. During the past two years of turmoil in Lebanon, Hezbollah has taken to slowly overturning the accepted postwar norms regarding Lebanon’s policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugee camps and the Palestinian issue as …

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Gaza Has Created a Dilemma for Hezbollah

The party has spent almost two decades building up a deterrence capacity, and now may be its prisoner. Since Hamas’ attack against Israeli towns on October 7, and the ensuing Israeli bombardment and military operations in and around Gaza, Hezbollah’s response in southern Lebanon has been mostly restrained. The party …

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Taliban Leaders Conspicuously Silent on Israel-Hamas War in Gaza

Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been notably quiet on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza — in sharp contrast to the fervent, daily anti-Israel comments from neighboring Iran. While Akhundzada has no public-facing digital accounts, his edicts and statements …

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Troops hurt after three drones attack US bases in Iraq as tensions flare after Gaza hospital blast

Coalition forces were slightly injured in Iraq in a spate of drone attacks over the last 24 hours at U.S. bases in Iraq as regional tensions flare following the deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza. Two drones targeted the al Asad airbase in western Iraq used by U.S. forces …

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The Iron Swords War
Updated to 1 p.m., October 18, 2023

The southern sector: The IDF continued its activity in the Gaza Strip, mainly by conductingairstrikes on terrorist targets of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Terrorist facilitieswere damaged and several senior Hamas terrorist operatives were killed, the most prominentof whom was Ayman Nofal. In the evening the Palestinian Authority reported …

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Russia’s Support Of Palestinian Independence Shouldn’t Be Spun As An Anti-Israeli Policy

The Alt-Media Community is lying about the Kremlin’s balanced policy towards the latest conflict just as much as the Mainstream Media is, albeit from the diametrically opposite position of falsely disassociating Russia from Israel while their putative rivals seek to falsely associate it with terrorism. The latest Israeli-Hamas war has …

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Biden in Israel: How U.S. foreign policy has played a big role in the Israel-Hamas war

U.S. President Joe Biden is in Israel to lend support to the country in the midst of an already bloody war between the Israelis and Hamas, including the bombing of a Gaza City hospital that has left hundreds dead. Following Biden’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel …

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How Israel underestimated Hamas’s intelligence capabilities – an expert reviews the evidence

Israel has a cutting-edge security technology industry and was (and still should be) considered to be the leading nation for national security. The controversial electronic intelligence platform Pegasus was developed in Israel, and the border between Israel and Gaza was considered – before the October 7 attack – to be …

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Vucic has ‘friendly’ meeting with Putin in China

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić had a brief conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, although there was no formal bilateral meeting between them, the Serbian leader said on Tuesday. Instead of attending the Berlin Process Summit in Tirana, Vučić travelled to China to sign a series of trade deals, …

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Kosovo wants KFOR support on Serbian border

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called for the additional KFOR forces deployed to Kosovo to ‘prioritise border security between Kosovo and Serbia, he said during a meeting with NATO’s peacekeeping mission commander in Kosovo, Özkan Ulutaş. The discussions between Kurti and Ulutaş revolved around the security situation in Kosovo, …

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