Middle Orient

The party has spent almost two decades building up a deterrence capacity, and now may be its prisoner. Since Hamas’ attack against Israeli towns on October 7, and the ensuing Israeli bombardment and military operations in and around Gaza, Hezbollah’s response in southern Lebanon has been mostly restrained. The party …

Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been notably quiet on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza — in sharp contrast to the fervent, daily anti-Israel comments from neighboring Iran. While Akhundzada has no public-facing digital accounts, his edicts and statements …

Coalition forces were slightly injured in Iraq in a spate of drone attacks over the last 24 hours at U.S. bases in Iraq as regional tensions flare following the deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza. Two drones targeted the al Asad airbase in western Iraq used by U.S. forces …

The southern sector: The IDF continued its activity in the Gaza Strip, mainly by conductingairstrikes on terrorist targets of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Terrorist facilitieswere damaged and several senior Hamas terrorist operatives were killed, the most prominentof whom was Ayman Nofal. In the evening the Palestinian Authority reported …

The Alt-Media Community is lying about the Kremlin’s balanced policy towards the latest conflict just as much as the Mainstream Media is, albeit from the diametrically opposite position of falsely disassociating Russia from Israel while their putative rivals seek to falsely associate it with terrorism. The latest Israeli-Hamas war has …

U.S. President Joe Biden is in Israel to lend support to the country in the midst of an already bloody war between the Israelis and Hamas, including the bombing of a Gaza City hospital that has left hundreds dead. Following Biden’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel …

Israel has a cutting-edge security technology industry and was (and still should be) considered to be the leading nation for national security. The controversial electronic intelligence platform Pegasus was developed in Israel, and the border between Israel and Gaza was considered – before the October 7 attack – to be …

The southern sector: Israeli Air Force attacks on Gaza City continued after at leastsome of the residents of the northern Gaza Strip had responded to the IDF’s calls to evacuate;during the past day there were more than 250 air strikes. The Palestinians reported the nightof October 15, 2023, had been …

The party has spent almost two decades building up a deterrence capacity, and now may be its prisoner. Since Hamas’ attack against Israeli towns on October 7, and the ensuing Israeli bombardment and military operations in and around Gaza, Hezbollah’s response in southern Lebanon has been mostly restrained. The party …

In an interview, Nur Arafeh discusses the ramifications of the conflict in Gaza and what it means for Palestinians. Nur Arafeh is a fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her work focuses on the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa, business-state relations, …