Middle Orient

The situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate as the health sector collapses and bodies begin piling up in front of hospitals. Three days into the Israeli siege and bombardment, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is quickly worsening, with the death toll now over 1,400 and the number of …

Syria regularly accuses Israel of striking its territories, the latest occurring during a regional tour by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Suspected Israeli airstrikes hit Syria on Thursday, the first such attacks since the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas began. SANA, Syria’s official news outlet, reported airstrikes hitting the …

A Conversation With Martin Indyk On the morning of Saturday, October 7, the Palestinian group Hamas carried out a surprise attack on Israel on an unprecedented scale: firing thousands of rockets, infiltrating militants into Israeli territory, and taking an unknown number of hostages. At least 100 Israelis have died, and …

Hamas’s Assault—and Iran’s Role in It—Lays Bare Washington’s Illusions The shocking Hamas assault on Israel has precipitated a beginning and an end for the Middle East. What has begun, almost inexorably, is the next war—one that will be bloody, costly, and agonizingly unpredictable in its course and outcome. What has …

In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has pursued a consistently violent strategy aimed at rolling back Israeli rule — and it has made steady progress despite bringing enormous suffering to both sides of the conflict. But its stunning incursion into …

There should be little doubt that the war that began when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, actually originated in Iran. The multi-pronged, highly coordinated and murderous attacks could not have happened without Iranian government assistance and approval. Leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, according to the Wall Street …

The southern sector: IDF fighters continued battling terrorists in the Israeli villagesand IDF posts in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip. Later in the day, the IDF spokesmanannounced that full control of the fence had been regained. The massive attacks against Gazafrom the air, sea and land continued. The terrorist …

Sidelined in the region, Europe is unlikely to have its voice heard amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas confrontation. Yet the EU’s economic leverage could prove useful in getting Israel and a new Palestinian leadership to negotiate in the longer term. With the horrendous attacks of its terrorist groups on Israeli territory …

During the past 24 hours, Israeli security forces carried out massive activity in the Gaza Stripon land, in the air and at sea; several hundred targets were attacked from the air. The forcescontinued searching for and clashing with terrorists who still remained in Israel. In themeantime, Gaza continued firing rockets …

For more than a decade, Israel has clashed with Hamas in Gaza, with cycles of violence defined by periods of intense fighting followed by relative lulls. This brief summarizes a report focusing on a five-year period of this conflict — from the end of Operation Cast Lead in 2009 to …