Middle Orient

Although the UAE and Bahrain have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, and Saudi Arabia was considering such a move, Arab states in the region have their own reasons to be cautious. As Israel’s offensive in Gaza grinds on, World War III in the Middle East has not yet erupted. Iran’s …

Forty days into the Israel-Hamas war, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force promised the militant group that Iran “will do anything required.” Yet questions linger over Iran’s willingness to risk direct involvement. The head of Iran’s Quds Force, the powerful wing commanding its controversial foreign military operations, has assured the …

New rocket and drone attacks targeted US bases in Syria in the hours following the latest US airstrikes designed to dissuade the IRGC and its militias from continuing their attacks on American personnel. Bases used by the US military in Syria have come under four separate rocket and drone attacks …

These demonstrators, who appear to feel so virtuous, send a message to the terrorist groups that people in the West happily support violence, terrorism and the Jihad (holy war) not only against Israel and Jews, but also against Christians, all “infidels,” Europe, the United States and the West. Although many …

Sheikh Ibrahim Rida, an Islamic scholar at Egypt’s renowned Al-Azhar University, said on a November 6, 2023 show on Sada Al-Balad TV (Egypt) that the Jews are quarrelsome people who killed many prophets and spread corruption on earth. He said that no one should find it strange that they are …

In the recent weeks, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar institution, the leading center of religious learning and supreme source of religious authority in the Sunni Muslim world, and senior members of this institution, have been voicing support for Hamas and for terrorism and inciting against the U.S. and Israel, while using virulently …

Terrible as the Gaza war’s toll has already been, it would get worse if sustained fighting were to erupt between the U.S. and Iran or its Middle East allies. Crisis Group experts Brian Finucane, Lahib Higel, Naysan Rafati and Ali Vaez lay out the dangers. What is happening? The United …

Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, was said to have observed “the guerrilla must swim in the people as the fish swims in the sea”. It is a lesson known to terrorists and revolutionaries from the IRA to the Taliban and is likely to explain the …

The Israeli prime minister may take a page out of Yasser Arafat’s book in order to get out of his perilous political predicament. In a conversation with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is said to have expressed concern about Israel’s role in escalating tensions along …

While many the world over had the integrity to condemn “the hideous crime, naming its perpetrators and acknowledging Israel’s basic right to defend itself against the atrocity,” the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches were unable to muster up such moral clarity. While the IDF goes out of its way to …