Middle Orient

Following is the November 2023 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. A review of developments throughout 2022 and 2021 can be found here and here. The January 2023 edition of ISIS Redux can be found …

Low-cost and high-performing, Turkish-made armed drones are capturing an increasing share of the global market. This success comes with risks, including escalation of conflict and reputational damage, but there are several ways for Ankara to manage them. As drones change the face of modern warfare, their price sinks and their …

The combat arena: The IDF forces continued their integrated ground maneuver in thenorthern and southern Gaza Strip, attacking more than 300 targets. The ground forces, airforce and navy carried out simultaneous attacks, and according to reports gained control ofthe Jabaliya area in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinians reported heavy …

The leader of Yemen’s Houthis warned on Wednesday they would strike U.S. warships if the Iranian-backed militia was targeted by Washington, which this week set up a multinational force to counter Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, Reuters reported. The Houthis, which control vast amounts of territory …

Les rebelles yéménites ont directement menacé les États-Unis de s’en prendre à leurs navires s’ils les ciblaient. Ces déclarations surviennent alors que Washington vient d’annoncer la création d’une force maritime multinationale afin de lutter contre les attaques houthies en mer Rouge. Le dirigeant houthi, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, a directement menacé les …

Abstract: Since October 7, in the wake of the “al-Aqsa Flood” terrorist attacks by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and other Palestinian factions from across the ideological spectrum, Iran’s aid to and strategic management of these groups has taken on a new level of relevance. The methods Iran has used …

Abstract: Iran-backed terrorists and militias lost the 2021 elections in Iraq yet ended up picking the prime minister anyway and taking charge of the world’s fifth-largest oil producer. This remarkable reversal of fortunes in 2022 was not delivered via the barrel of a gun but rather a series of cool-headed …

Turkish warplanes carried out new airstrikes Wednesday against Kurdish militant targets in neighboring Iraq, the Turkish defense ministry said, a day after Turkish and Iraqi officials held high-level security talks in Ankara. Turkey often launches strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq that it believes to be affiliated with the …

Time to Make Hard Choices If devastation is the goal, Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip has been a resounding success. More than two months after Hamas killed over 1,100 people on October 7, Israeli air and ground operations have killed some 20,000 Palestinians, many of them children, according …

Personne n’a jamais perdu d’argent en pariant sur la capacité de l’Empire du Chaos, du Mensonge et du Pillage à construire une «coalition de volontaires» lorsqu’il est confronté à un dilemme géopolitique. Dans tous les cas, dûment couverts par l’«ordre international fondé sur des règles» en vigueur, le terme «volontaires» …