Middle Orient

Fereydoon Abbasi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, discussed Iran potentially building and detonating a nuclear weapon in a May 26, 2025 interview on SNN.ir (Iran). He said that he has not yet received orders to build a nuclear bomb – but if he does, he will …

In a May 26, 2025 interview with the Didbaniran website, Ahmad Bakhshayish Ardastani, a member of the Iranian Majlis National Security And Foreign Policy Committee, detailed the main points of an Omani mediation offer proposed to Iran on May 23, as part of Oman’s mediation efforts in the U.S.-Iran nuclear …

The ongoing genocide in Gaza is nearing 600 days. According to official records, the death toll has crossed 54,000. Studies done by Lancet and others put the death toll several times the official numbers. An estimate by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is that Israel kills a Palestinian woman every hour …

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At least three dead as thousands try to reach a food distribution site of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in southern Gaza. At least three people have died and dozens have been injured in war-ravaged Gaza as thousands of starving Palestinians attempted to get food from a controversial Israeli-United States …

A few hours after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire deal with the Houthis in early May, Mohammed Abdulsalam, the chief Houthi negotiator, said that “the agreement doesn’t include Israel in any way, shape or form”. The US deal, brokered by Oman, which is also mediating US-Iran nuclear talks, …

Despite longstanding ideological and political differences, Tehran is working to rebuild ties with Egypt and Bahrain, hoping to ease regional tensions. Recent remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi about restoring relations with Bahrain and Egypt have once again drawn attention to Iran’s strained diplomacy in the region. The comments …

A variety of Syrian armed groups, including those associated with the new transitional government, the Assad regime, and hardline Islamic groups, have committed a series of extrajudicial killings since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. CTP-ISW absolutely condemns these extrajudicial killings. Salafi-jihadi groups, such as the Islamic …

E_104_25Download IDF forces continued operations against Hezbollah’s presence in south Lebanon, whichviolates the understandings of the ceasefire agreement, and against the organization’sattempts to renew its military capabilities. A specialist in constructing facilities for theproduction of precision surface-to-surface missiles and operatives from the organization’s eliteRadwan Force were eliminated. Hezbollah used the …

An Israel-backed NGO began distributing aid in southern Gaza on Tuesday, following weeks of delays and mounting criticism. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) handed out food parcels in the Tel al-Sultan area west of Rafah under a new Israeli-run system that bypasses UN agencies, drawing sharp condemnation from Palestinian officials …