Middle Orient

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have reported that their ground offensive in the Gaza Strip is expanding to Hamas centers across the territory, according to their chief spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagai. The IDF has issued new orders for residents of the Gaza Strip to evacuate from 20 areas in …

Israel has developed a large system of pumps that could be used to flood tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, used by the militant group Hamas, with the aim of forcing fighters out of them, reported the Wall Street Journal yesterday, citing U.S. officials. The Israeli military has completed the installation …

Un nouveau rapport convaincant du Conseil de sécurité (CS) russe circulant aujourd’hui au Kremlin indique que le président Poutine et le président iranien en visite Ebrahim Raïssi ont tenu une réunion privée qui a duré plus de cinq heures et s’est terminée juste avant minuit, heure de Moscou. Après cette …

While much of the world’s attention was focused on the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the UN Security Council’s sanctions on the development and export of Iranian missiles quietly expired on October 18 (Amwaj.media, October 22). The sanctions were part of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which set the specific …

The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily. All in the name of the unasked American people and taxpayers. Earlier this week, at …

In fear of a popular uprising in Iran, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei saw the Gaza war as a solution to protect his regime against the people. Additionally, to instill fear in society he has resorted to widespread executions to extinguish the flame of uprising. Alongside these actions, he …

Following the October 7 Hamas attacks, residents along Israel’s northern border grow increasingly anxious over the possibility of a similar assault by Hezbollah. Gil Sagi is an Israeli dairy farmer living on a kibbutz in northern Israel. Since the beginning of Israel’s war with Hamas, his community, along with others, …

Hassan Ali Daqduq, the son of senior Hezbollah commander Musa Ali Daqduq, was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike in Syria’s Quneitra governorate, according to reports. The elder Daqduq was tasked by Iran and Hezbollah to establish militias in Iraq along the lines of Lebanese Hezbollah. He was successful in …

The Strategy That Led to the War—and What It Means for the Future Among the many striking aspects of Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel, one that has received relatively little scrutiny is the location. For much of the past decade, the Gaza Strip no longer appeared to be a …

“We built the tunnels to protect ourselves from airplanes … the refugees, the UN is responsible for protecting them.” The now infamous statement by Musa Abu Marzuk of Hamas, in a television interview of October 2023, illustrates a severe problem that has developed in the interplay between humanitarian aid and …