Middle Orient

Iran absolutely wouldn’t have authorized any retaliatory Pakistani strikes on its territory like Mohammad Marandi and Pepe Escobar’s explicitly stated and strongly implied theories would respectively suggest if there was any truth to their interpretation of why Iran struck Pakistan earlier in the week. Pakistan confirmed on Thursday morning that …

The performance at the Hague bodes ill for international law Since the early 1600s, the Bavarian town of Oberammergau has, once a decade, mounted a massive Passion Play, dramatically re-enacting Jesus’s trial and crucifixion. Spread over five hours and with a cast of thousands, it has for centuries attracted audiences …

Iran and Its Allies Are Fighting With Missiles and Memes On January 12, the United Kingdom and the United States launched military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. These attacks were a response to the group’s assaults on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which have disrupted global trade. The …

Pendant les cent jours de guerre d’Israël contre tous les habitants de Gaza, les membres de l’axe de résistance ont répondu à l’assaut. Le Hamas à Gaza a attaqué avec succès les forces d’invasion israéliennes. Hier encore, il a lancé des missiles depuis le nord de Gaza vers Israël. Le …

Est-ce une coïncidence si la plus grande organisation terroriste au monde renaît alors que les USA sont soumis à un assaut sur plusieurs fronts contre leur hégémonie en Asie de l’Ouest ? Des sources de sécurité irakiennes mettent en garde contre un renouveau d’ISIS dans le pays, qui coïncide trop …

Le Corps des Gardiens de la Révolution islamique (CGRI) a révélé plus de détails sur ses récentes attaques de missiles contre des bases terroristes anti-iraniennes et des centres d’espionnage en Syrie et dans la région du Kurdistan irakien. Dans un nouveau communiqué publié mardi 16 janvier, le CGRI a déclaré …

Is a wider Middle East war — expanding beyond the borders of Gaza and Israel — inevitable? The question is in sharp focus following a series of dramatic escalations around the region in the last few days: targeted killings of Hamas and Hezbollah commanders in Lebanon, a powerful Hezbollah attack …

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps fired several ballistic missiles on the positions of the Israeli spy service and the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terror group bases in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the recent terrorist attacks against Iranians. The IRGC launched solid-fuel ballistic missiles in the wee hours of …

The impression that Iran regards Pakistan as a serious security threat on par with the Israeli spy base in Iraq and ISIS ones in Syria that it also struck in sequence. With all three taking place as the latest Israeli-Hamas war escalates into a regional proxy war between Israel-US and …

At least 11 Iranian security personnel have been killed in an attack on a police station in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state television reported. Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, said on Friday that senior police officers and soldiers were killed and injured in the 2am (22:30 …