Middle Orient

The southern arena: Over the past day the activity of the IDF forces focused on the Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip. The forces increased the pressure on Hamas and attacked a large number of terrorist cells scattered throughout the area. According to an unofficial estimate, since October …

Yemen’s government troops fended off on Tuesday a major attack by Iran-backed Houthis on the town of Bayhan in the southern province of Shabwa, the latest in a string of Houthi military escalations around the nation. The government’s Giants Brigades said on Wednesday that the Houthis launched an attack from …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi left Tehran for Ankara on Wednesday for his first state visit to Turkey as the president of Iran. The Iranian president is going to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and co-chair the 8th meeting of the High Council of Iran-Turkey Cooperation in …

Iran-backed Houthi militants launched new attacks Wednesday on merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden, just hours after the United States carried out preemptive strikes to stave off what it said was an imminent attack on shipping lanes in the Red Sea. U.S. Central Command, which overseas U.S. forces in …

The October 7 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel’s ensuing offensive in Gaza have sent the Middle East back into a state of turmoil. This will have important security and diplomatic implications not only for the Middle East but also for the broader Euro-Atlantic region. Moreover, as it underscores the ongoing …

Key Takeaways: Iraq: The United States and the Iraqi federal government will soon begin negotiations on Iraq’s current security arrangement with US-led coalition forces, which could involve US forces withdrawing from Iraq. Iranian-backed Iraqi actors praised the US and Iraqi decision to begin negotiations about the status of US-led coalition …

En réponse aux nouvelles frappes des avions américains sur l’Irak & le Yémen, la Résistance islamique en Irak a promis de mettre les ports israéliens «hors service» jusqu’à la levée du blocus de Gaza. Le secrétaire général des Brigades Sayyid al-Shuhada, Abu Ala al-Walaei, a annoncé aux premières heures du …

The United States and Iraq are set to initiate talks on the end of a U.S.-led international military coalition in Iraq and how to replace it with bilateral relations, four sources said, a step forward in a process that was stalled by the Gaza war. The U.S. conveyed the message …

The US government said the strikes were a response to attacks against US troops in Iraq and Syria. Recent months have seen an uptick in US strikes in Iraq and Yemen. The United States targeted three facilities linked to Iran-backed militants in Iraq on Tuesday in response to drone and …

Relatives mourn 17-year old American Tawfiq Ajaq at his funeral in his family’s Palestinian home village Al-Mazra’a ash Shaqriya, West Bank, January 20, 2024. Ajaq was killed by Israeli fire. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) If what is currently happening in the occupied Palestinian West Bank took place before October 7, our …