Middle Orient

Israel’s war cabinet is set to convene Thursday evening to discuss the escalation in the north with Hezbollah. Israel’s war cabinet was set to convene Thursday, after a series of drone attacks targeting Upper Galilee region injured at least 11 people and as the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said …

A Strategy for Letting the Group Defeat Itself The war in Gaza has settled into a mind-numbing pattern of violence, bloodshed, and death. And everyone is losing—except Hamas. When Israel invaded the territory last fall, its stated military objective was to destroy the terrorist group so that it could never …

A Gaza hospital said at least 37 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a UN-run school on Thursday, that the Israeli military alleged housed a “Hamas compound”. The raid came after US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators resumed talks aimed at securing a truce and hostage-prisoner swap in the …

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami threatened to retaliate against Israel for the June 3 airstrike that killed IRGC Quds Force Gen. Saeid Abyar in Aleppo, Syria.[i] Abyar was a member of the IRGC Quds Force and had been stationed in Syria since 2012.[ii] Salami stated …

The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office has appealed to the Paris Judicial Court after charges against former Governor of the Central Bank of Syria, Adib Mayaleh, related to financing battles in Syria were dropped. Mayaleh, who holds both French and Syrian citizenship, is suspected of financing the Syrian regime accused …

Over the past month, there has been a surge in attacks from Iraq against Israel attributed to the Islamic Resistance. This group consists of several militias backed by Iran, active in both Syria and Iraq, including existing U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations such as Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Harakat Hezbollah …

Iran has been backing its proxies, including Hezbollah and Hamas, in their fight against Israel since the Gaza war erupted. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani pledged on Tuesday to maintain close relations with Syria during a meeting with President Bashar al-Assad amid escalating tensions in the region. Bagheri …

Israel’s war cabinet is set to convene to discuss the escalation of violence on the border with Lebanon. Israel’s war cabinet is set to discuss Tuesday evening the escalation on the border with Lebanon after rocket fire caused dozens of fires in the north of Israel. Israeli firefighters continued efforts …

On Tuesday, the Israeli army announced that ground forces had begun a precise operation in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Since last night, destruction and death shadowed al-Moghazi and al-Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza as the Israeli army carries out a new military assault in …

Lebanese Hezbollah does not seek to escalate the conflict with Israel, but it is prepared to engage in any war imposed upon it, said Sheikh Naim Kasem, the deputy leader of Hezbollah, to the Al-Jazeera TV station on Tuesday, as conflicts and hostilities continue along the Lebanese-Israeli border. Hezbollah, supported …