Middle Orient

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 …

Hezbollah has been careful not to escalate the situation along Israel’s northern border beyond the accepted norms, but the situation could change quickly depending on events in Gaza. South Lebanon is beautiful in autumn. The green landscape, the blue sea, and the perfect weather encourage feelings of serenity. On Oct. …

Le seul pays qui pourrait détourner l’Occident de l’Ukraine est Israël. Mais les États-Unis et leurs alliés tombent dans un piège existentiel s’ils pensent qu’une victoire au Proche-Orient sera plus facile à remporter qu’une victoire en Europe. Le partenariat stratégique entre la Russie et l’Iran – avec la Chine dans …

Ankara has politely shown the door to Hamas leaders staying in Turkey, according to two sources, as it walks a diplomatic tightrope, careful not to jeopardize its recent thaw with Israel while maintaining support for the Palestinian cause. Turkey has been trying to carefully calibrate its stance in the face …

In addition to documenting events in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian and Arab media havegiven extensive coverage to the IDF’s preparations for the next phase of the war in the GazaStrip, i.e. the ground maneuver. The media follow the preparations, including the increasednumber and deployment along the Gaza Strip border …

For the past several years, Hamas has often been overlooked in discussions regarding the top global terrorist threats. The Islamic State and its worldwide network of affiliates occupy much of the counterterrorism bandwidth, along with al-Qaeda affiliates such as al-Shabaab in Somalia. Even Lebanese Hezbollah has ranked higher on the …