Middle Orient

One Israeli was killed, and eight others were wounded in a shooting that occurred Thursday morning near the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, east of occupied East Al-Quds/Jerusalem. According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, Palestinians opened fire on Israeli vehicles, killing one Israeli and injuring eight others, two of whom …

Israeli Minister of Social Equality May Golan said she is “proud” of the destruction caused by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. Speaking during a session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on Wednesday evening, Golan threatened Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, with beheading or arrest. “We are …

The United Nations (UN) has announced that “there is no safe place” in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been carrying out its attacks for over four months, and they have reported that 153 facilities in the region have been hit. “Nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe during military …

Hamas has completed ceasefire negotiations in Cairo and is now waiting to see what the mediators will bring over the weekend in talks with Israel, a Palestinian group official said on Friday, in what appears to be the most serious effort after weeks of negotiations to halt the fighting. Mediators …

Iran reportedly requested Sudanese permission to establish a permanent naval base on the Red Sea coast, which would support Iranian out-of-area naval operations and attacks on international shipping. The Wall Street Journal reported the Iranian request on March 3, citing a senior Sudanese intelligence official.[i] Ahmad Hasan Mohamed—an intelligence adviser …

Israeli security personnel last month arrested four Palestinians planning Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks against troops in Judea and Samaria, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police cleared for publication on Monday afternoon. The four suspects, named by the Shin Bet as Murad Marqatan, Hasin Marqatan, …

Egypt’s stability is crucial for Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but now they’re linking financial aid to the mass displacement of Gazans to Sinai, which poses an even greater threat to Cairo’s national security. As Israel’s brutal military assault on Gaza escalates, reports continue to swirl about a big Egyptian …

US weapons are dropping on Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, so some major Arab states hosting US military bases are now telling Washington ‘You can’t launch from here.’ In West Asia, the bedrock of US power projection lies in its strategically located military bases nestled within the Persian Gulf. …

Despite Beijing’s maritime security priority, Ansarallah’s Red Sea ban on Israeli-linked shipping has boosted China’s regional standing while miring its US adversary in an unwinnable crisis. The Gaza war’s expansion into the Red Sea has created an international maritime crisis involving a host of countries. Despite a US-led bombing campaign …

Three decades after the Oslo Lie, neither the US nor the EU are in any position to dangle the promise of a Palestinian state. Is it sadly ironic that the issue of Palestinian statehood – unresolved for over 75 years – has resurfaced only after Israel’s wholesale carpet-bombing of the …