Middle Orient

These lessons are: 1) prioritizing military goals over political ones; 2) the importance of superior intelligence; 3) insensitivity to public opinion; 4) the need for one’s “deep state” to be fully convinced of the ongoing conflict’s existential nature; and 5) practicing “radical decisiveness”. The latest Israeli-Lebanese War and the Ukrainian …

The death of Hassan Nasrallah is a significant blow to Hezbollah and the organization’s key sponsor, Iran. Hezbollah, a militant group and political party that controls much of southern Lebanon, said Nasrallah was killed in Israeli air strikes in the capital, Beirut, on September 27. In his more than 30 …

The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on the organization’s underground headquarters in southern Beirut the previous night. The question is, what happens in the wake of Nasrallah’s death? Where will his assassination take Lebanon and the region? What will …

The ongoing Israeli operation against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia group so dominant in Lebanon, is following a standard pattern. Ignore base causes. Ignore context. Target leaders, and target personnel. See matters in conventional terms of civilisational warrior against barbarian despot. Israel, the valiant and bold, fighting the forces of darkness. …

Nabil Qaouq, a senior member of Hezbollah’s executive council was killed in another Israeli airstrike south of Beirut on Saturday Israel said Sunday it killed another senior Hezbollah official in an airstrike a day earlier after dealing the Iran-backed group a seismic blow by assassinating its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Israel …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a message to the Iranian people, emphasizing that Israel “stands with them.” In a video statement in English, Netanyahu criticized the Iranian regime, claiming it subjugates its people daily while pretending to defend Lebanon and Gaza. “Every day, you witness a regime that subjugates …

Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant today hinted that Israel is preparing to launch a ground offensive against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. “Removing (Hezbollah leader) Nasrallah is a very important step, but it is not everything. We will utilize all the options we have,” Galant said to soldiers …

President of the Republic of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an interview with the American “NBC News,” stated that he does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization but rather a resistance group defending its country, Anadolu Agency reported. Erdogan, who was in New York for the 79th United Nations General …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on the United Nations General Assembly to recommend the use of forces, in accordance with the resolution passed in 1950, if the UN Security Council does not stop Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reported. The UN General Assembly should …

The involvement of the Houthis in the Israel–Hamas war has affected the progress of the negotiations between the internationally recognised government of Yemen and the Houthis. The intra-Yemeni dialogue which was advancing since the agreement between the government of Yemen and the Houthis in April 2022 and the rapprochement between …