Middle Orient

The cooperation between the pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen has intensified in recent weeks, as reflected in announcements of joint UAV and cruise missile attacks on Israel “in support of the Palestinians” and in response to Israel’s [alleged] “massacres” in the Strip Gaza. Between June 6, …

In the southern suburb of Beirut on July 30, 2024, the IDF eliminated Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander and the head of the organization’s strategic array. The attack was carried out in response to a rocket fired by Hezbollah which hit the Druze village of Majdal Shams and …

Gorbachev had a thin resume as an apparatchik who had risen in the party by doing nothing, in fact, by being nobody. When he came to London to be promoted by Margaret Thatcher, his 10-line resume introduced him as the Central Committee’s agricultural tsar who had risen to be party …

Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated during a visit to Iran in what the terror group claimed was an “airstrike” directly on his room that was conducted by Israel early Wednesday. His death dramatically escalates tensions in the Middle East and raises the specter of all-out war between …

Over the past two days, Israel assassinated Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah figure close to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and is believed to be behind the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political office, while he was in Tehran attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president. The assassination …

As the world braces for Iran and its Resistance Axis allies’ response to Israel’s assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran, it’s important to remember that Russia wants to avoid a larger war, not fuel one. Reports started circulating over the weekend on social media alleging that at least one Russian military …

Iran and its Axis of Resistance may target US forces in Syria as part of a retaliatory strike for Israel killing several Axis of Resistance leaders, including Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh. Euphrates Post reported that Iranian-backed Iraqi militias Kataib Hezbollah, Sayyida al Shuhada, and Harakat Ansar Allah al …

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on July 31. Haniyeh was one of the most well-known faces of Hamas in the region. Ever since he took over Hamas’ Political Bureau in 2017, he has been a key leader in navigating the rising power of Hamas in the region …

Latest Developments A hidden explosive device smuggled into his Tehran guesthouse months ago killed Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, The New York Times revealed on August 1. Unnamed sources told the Times that the bomb was placed two months ago inside the residence, which is secured by the Islamic Revolutionary …

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spent the final hours before his assassination in a Tehran safehouse that belongs to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Haniyeh’s death in the Iranian capital underscores the depth of the relationship between Hamas and the clerical regime, whose funding, training, and equipment have proven indispensable …