Middle Orient

For nearly two decades, the Litani River functioned as an informal red line in the uneasy balance between Israel and Hezbollah. Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Lebanon War, the area south of the river was meant to be free of heavy Hezbollah military presence, …

The U.S. metric for effective cooperation shouldn’t be whether Syria is willing to fight Iran’s proxies in Lebanon or Iraq, but whether it continues advancing regional stability by securing its borders, limiting the flow of Iranian weapons and fighters, and coordinating politically with neighbors. A March 17 Reuters report suggested …

“The conqueror need not be stronger than the conquered. He need only be more willing to endure.” — Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, 14th century “No people has ever been liberated by a war it could not endure.” — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961 “All human beings are members …

Hours after Israel’s assassination of Iranian security chief Ali Larijani on March 17, a little more than two weeks into their war, Iran fired a series of deadly cluster missiles at central Israel in what its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) described as “revenge” for his death. The overnight attack …

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Nous rejetons la guerre. Mais pour mettre fin aux guerres, les journalistes doivent travailler sans crainte ni intimidation, et la propriété des médias ne peut pas devenir un moyen de contrôle, écrit Ramzy Baroud. Le secrétaire américain à la Défense, Pete Hegseth, semble avoir peu de patience pour les questions …

The Iraqi government may not care about protecting Americans from Tehran’s militias, but it should certainly care about protecting its own citizens. Amidst bombardments against American assets in the region, Iraqi militias struck Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) on March 22, injuring five, and the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) on …

Iraqi militias have bombarded US assets in Iraq for weeks. Flames rose from the embassy compound on March 17 while rockets and drones sought to evade its air defenses. The US military is hitting Iranian targets hard inside Iran, but it is time for President Donald Trump to step up …

The Syrian Petroleum Company allowed fuel station owners, on Wednesday, March 25, to pay for petroleum products in Syrian pounds. The decision came in response to a sit-in organized by a number of private fuel station owners from various governorates in front of the Ministry of Energy in Damascus on …