Middle Orient

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 …

The shadow war between Israel and Iran continues to escalate and expand, posing serious risks not only to these two countries but also to other nations in the Middle East. Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, and Israel have recently intensified their attacks on each other, including a series of Israeli strikes on …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: ‘We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine.’ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out …

Israel’s war on Gaza has destroyed much of the enclaves housing and infrastructure, with UNRWA warning there are no safe areas in the enclave. Israel’s evacuation orders of Bureij and Nuseirat in central Gaza have sent tens of thousands of Palestinian residents fleeing to safe areas of the enclave. However, …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian opposite number Vladimir Putin held talks in Moscow on the ties between the two countries as well as regional developments. Putin hosted Assad in the Russian capital on Thursday and held talks on matters of mutual interest, Syria’s official news agency SANA and …

The strategic partnership between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the most intriguing alliances that have emerged in recent times. Undoubtedly, it is an extraordinary geopolitical phenomenon that connects two different continents, Asia (the Middle East) and South America, with the aim …