Middle Orient

Coalition en mer Rouge : Les Houthis menacent ouvertement les Américains de représailles

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 …

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The Path to October 7: How Iran Built Up and Managed a Palestinian ‘Axis of Resistance’

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 …

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Iraq’s New Regime Change: How Tehran-Backed Terrorist Organizations and Militias Captured the Iraqi State

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 …

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Turkey says its warplanes have hit suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq

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 …

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Israel’s Muddled Strategy in Gaza

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 …

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Le Yémen prêt à affronter une nouvelle coalition impériale

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» …

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Sionisme et Judéo-Nazisme

La seconde appellation a été remise à l’ordre du jour par le ministre des Affaires étrangères russe, Lavrov, au début de la guerre en Ukraine en 2022. Depuis, avec l’horreur génocidaire qui frappe Gaza (et de plus en plus la Cisjordanie), le bons sens l’acquiesce. Mais la formule a une …

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Mideast Narco-War Escalates at Jordan-Syria Border

Jordan reportedly launched airstrikes on December 18 targeting narcotrafficking operations in southern Syria hours after Jordanian forces foiled one of the largest cross-border smuggling operations to threaten the kingdom in years. Jordan’s border with Syria has grown increasingly volatile as the region remains preoccupied with war in the nearby Gaza …

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Houthi Anti-Israel Attacks Harm Egypt and Jordan

Latest Developments The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group issued a warning on December 20 threatening to retaliate against U.S. warships if the American military were to target the Yemen-based group. This threat came on the heels of an announcement that the United States will lead a multinational mission to secure safe …

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Biden team wary of retaliating against Houthi attacks at sea

Senior Biden administration officials agree that striking Houthis in Yemen is the wrong course of action for now, per three U.S. officials, even though some military officers have proposed more forceful responses to the militants’ attacks in the Red Sea. There’s high-level consensus within the administration that it does not …

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