Middle Orient

Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory posture in the developing conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. At a party conference in his hometown Rize, Erdogan …

L’assassinat par Israël du responsable du bureau politique du Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, à Téhéran le 31 juillet, s’inscrit dans la volonté de Tel-Aviv de déclencher un conflit régional plus large. Il s’agit d’un acte criminel qui trahit le désespoir israélien. Presque immédiatement après le début de la guerre de Gaza, …

Hamas’ top political leader was killed Wednesday by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock assassination that risked escalating into an all-out regional war. Iran’s supreme leader vowed revenge against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel “will …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh and one bodyguard were killed in Tehran on Wednesday. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday that the chief of the Palestinian group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran along with one of his bodyguards. “The residence of Ismail Haniyeh, head of …

Shukr reportedly serves on Hezbollah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council, and has been involved in assisting Hezbollah fighters and pro-Assad forces On Tuesday night, Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike on the southern suburb of Beirut, near Bahman Hospital in Harat Hreik, killing at least two. The strike appeared to …

Haniyeh’s assassination is a watershed event in the latest Israeli-Hamas War, which is now a regional Israeli-Iranian proxy war, since it greatly spikes the risk of everything spiraling into “mutually assured destruction”. Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel early Wednesday morning in the heart of the Iranian …

The Israeli Security Cabinet approved an Israeli military response against Lebanese Hezbollah on July 28. The Israeli Security Cabinet authorized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to determine the “manner and timing” of Israel’s retaliation for the July 27 rocket attack on Majdal Shams in the …

Latest Developments Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened military action against Israel on July 28, a day after 12 children in the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams were killed by a rocket launched by the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah — which Erdogan supports — as they played soccer. …

As Lebanese armed groups continue to fight Israel, divisions are appearing among Sunnis over their political identity. Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, launched in response to Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, together with Hezbollah’s subsequent opening of a limited military front with northern Israel in support of the Palestinians, …

Fresh from receiving assurances of continued backing from the Biden-Harris administration in Washington, the Israeli regime immediately seized upon an alleged rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 Arab Druze children to threaten an offensive into Lebanon that could trigger a wider US-backed war against Iran. The …