Middle Orient

Iran’s prospects to de-escalate tensions with the United States and its allies have dissipated with Tehran’s threats to intervene directly in the Hamas-Israel crisis.Iran’s regional allies have conducted several attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets in sympathy with Hamas and the Palestinians and may escalate further in the coming days, …

On sait que dans la soirée du 27 octobre, les forces armées israéliennes ont lancé une vaste opération militaire contre la bande de Gaza, attaquant simultanément cette semi-exclave de l’Autorité palestinienne depuis la terre, l’eau et le ciel. Les médias israéliens et les FDI ont annoncé cette opération avec confiance …

At all costs, America believes that it must do whatever’s necessary to prevent the Israeli state from exercising its sovereign right under Bibi’s restored leadership to balance between the US-led West’s Golden Billion and the Sino-Russo Entente in the New Cold War instead of decisively take the former’s side against …

Tehran has been militarily and financially propping up Hamas for years, which ultimately advanced the terrorist group’s ability to launch the attack against Israel on October 7. The UAE has become a haven for Iranian and Russian sanctions evasion and circumvention. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international coordinating …

The Mivne Group claimed on its Facebook page that it ‘donated’ an alternative building for the Israel Police in Sderot, after the station there was destroyed in fighting with Hamas. Last week, the police were granted emergency funding of 8.4 million shekels ($2.1 million) to rent the building for three …

Palestinian fighters in Lebanon are ready for battle, as the country’s southern border emerges as a potential second front in the war between Hamas and Israel. “Because I’m Palestinian, it’s my right to fight,” Mahmoud Sarhan, a military officer for the Palestinian party, Fatah, said from his home in Ein …

Footage of apartment buildings in the Gaza Strip crumbling under Israeli airstrikes and suffering Palestinian civilians has filled Russian political talk shows and newscasts for weeks. “They are razing Gaza to the ground,” state television anchor and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov said during a recent show. “We [the Russian army] don’t …

Delegates from the Palestinian militant group Hamas met with Russian officials in Moscow on Thursday, state-run media reported, citing Russia’s Foreign Ministry. “I can confirm that representatives of the [Hamas] Palestinian movement are visiting Moscow,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a weekly briefing. Moscow had not previously announced …

The Israeli military blamed two explosions in Egypt, resulted in injuries, on an “aerial threat” from the Red Sea, a possible reference to the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, but some details are unclear. Egypt was hit with two blasts early Friday, one of which occurred near the Israeli border, demonstrating …

Iran-backed factions appeared to break several months of detente with US forces in the Middle East this week by launching drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea, Iraq and Syria amid Israel’s war in Gaza, throwing the Pentagon’s deterrence efforts into question. The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the …