The peace plan proposed by Israel and the United States for Gaza is not only a trap, but it repeats the same mistakes of the past that did not lead to peace. It reduces resistance to terrorism and limits terrorism to what Hamas does; there is no mention of Israeli …
Read More »Spotlight on Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Read More »The Quiet Return of Hezbollah’s Smuggling Network in Syria
Hezbollah may not be fully up and running in Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, but it is still seeking to take advantage of the instability in the country, along with other militant groups. The Iranian-backed terror group is still using Syria as a corridor to arm …
Read More »Iran Update, September 30, 2025
Toplines Senior Iranian officials appear to be preparing for potential military conflict. Iranian officials continue to believe that the current ceasefire between Israel and Iran will collapse and fighting will resume at some point in the future. Iranian Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement and National Security Council …
Read More »Qatar Must Apologize for Supporting Islamist Terrorist Groups
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly “apologized” to his Qatari counterpart for violating the Gulf state’s sovereignty in Israel’s September 9 strike against Hamas leaders in Doha. The alleged apology took place in a September 29 phone call arranged by US President Donald J. Trump. If anyone needs to …
Read More »The Middle East That Israel Has Made: Why Washington Will Rue the Costs of Israeli Aggression
The countries of the Middle East increasingly see Israel as their new shared threat. Israel’s war in Gaza, its expansionist military policies, and its revisionist posture are reshaping the region in ways that few anticipated. Its September strike on Hamas’s political leaders in Qatar—the seventh country hit by Israel since …
Read More »Is the Baghdad-Erbil oil deal a blueprint for settlement—or a stopgap?
After nearly two and a half years, a fragile but consequential agreement between Iraq’s federal government in Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, the seven major Oil Companies (IOC), and a local Kurdish oil company has resumed oil exports through the Iraqi-Turkey Pipeline (ITP) to the international market. …
Read More »Building an AI Alliance in the Middle East
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Read More »Will ISIS’s attempts to kidnap Syria from the transitional authority succeed?
ISIS has been witnessing a new surge in its activity inside Syria since the change of the former regime in December 2024, taking advantage of the fragility of the transitional authority and the overlap of its structure with different factions. Despite intense international strikes, the group has been able to …
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