Middle Orient

Latest Developments Iran used two banks in the United Kingdom to evade U.S. sanctions via front companies secretly owned by Iran’s Petrochemical Commercial Company (PCC), the Financial Times reported on February 4. The report claims that PCC’s UK division (PCC UK) owns front companies called Pisco UK and Aria Associates …

Since the start of Operation Iron Swords (October 7, 2023), the Houthi campaign in the RedSea area has escalated and drawn in many participants, the most important of which are theUnited States, Britain and Iran, whose involvement has increased. Initially the Houthislaunched missiles and UAVs at Israel, but their tactics …

Hamas has deployed officers and made salary payments to civil servants in Gaza City in recent days Hamas is resurging in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, AP reported on 3 February, following repeated claims by Israel’s army that its military wing has been dismantled there. Israel has withdrawn …

The oil theft and smuggling operation comes two days after a brutal US attack on Syria and Iraq US occupation troops in Syria’s northeastern Jazira region looted 60 tankers of crude oil and transported it through an illegal border crossing into its military bases in Iraq, Syrian state media reported …

Hezbollah’s launch of the Iranian-made Almas missile — reverse-engineered from the Israeli ATGM, Spike — is a major military development in the northern battlefield, and a dismaying surprise for Tel Aviv. On 25 January, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah orchestrated a bold strike against Israel’s strategic Jal al-Alam site, using …

Since the eruption of the latest war in Gaza on Oct. 7, the international community has sought an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and a clear pathway to a two-state solution as a means to settle the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has made it clear he …

At least three U.S. soldiers were killed and 34 were wounded in an attack on a U.S. outpost near the Syria-Jordan border on January 28. The Islamic Resistance Forces in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks, also claiming that they had targeted at least two other U.S. bases in Syria …

Early Sunday morning, local time, a drone successfully struck a US military facility on the Iraq/Syria/Jordan border. Three US servicemembers were killed and several dozen were injured. The US Central Command claims that the attack hit a facility inside Jordan, but Jordan and the “Iraqi Resistance,” which took credit for …

Dans une vidéo datant de 2006, Judith Butler affirmait que «le Hamas et le Hezbollah sont des mouvements sociaux progressistes et font partie de la gauche mondiale». L’essayiste queer étatsunienne montrait une maîtrise des problématiques de l’«Orient compliqué» aussi brillante que ses connaissances de l’intimité masculine. Cette prise de position …

Les hommes politiques et les médias mainstream occidentaux ont longtemps dupé leur monde, en faisant croire à qui veut l’entendre que le parti politique palestinien Hamas, pivot ces dernières années de la résistance armée, contre l’occupant israélien, serait une organisation «terroriste» «fondamentaliste», « islamiste». Et de marteler : «tantôt proche …