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The recent attacks in Lebanon against Hezbollah using rigged pagers and walkie-talkies, purportedly orchestrated by Israel, has opened a new front in the conflict which has threatened to envelop the region since October last year. While the audaciousness of these strikes claims most of the headlines, the geopolitics of the …

Iran strongly condemned Israel’s operations in Lebanon, including the detonation of the communications devices, the killing of Ibrahim Aqil, and the extensive airstrikes. However, at this stage, Iran refrains from committing to direct military involvement in the campaign alongside Hezbollah, focusing instead on diplomatic efforts. These efforts are being led …

Terror organization: Hezbollah Status: Commander of Nasser unit. The Nasser unit is responsible for the area between the border with Israel and the Litani River. Role: He was an operative since the establishment of the organization. He joined Hezbollah in 1984. In 1992-1994 participated in the war in Bosnia. In …

Analysis: Israel’s military escalation aims to return displaced Israelis to the north and decouple Hezbollah from a ceasefire in Gaza. It is a high-risk gamble. There has recently been an alarming escalation of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. On 23 September, Lebanon experienced its deadliest day since the end of its civil …

Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon killed almost 500 people, including dozens of women and children, and wounded more than 1,600, according to Lebanese authorities, in the deadliest wave of strikes since the current hostilities began in October. The Israeli military said it launched strikes against more than 1,300 locations …

In recent years, many Israelis, both regular citizens as well as policymakers, have concluded that a war with Hezbollah was necessary — perhaps inevitable — given the Lebanese militant group’s on-again, off-again missile strikes against Israel’s border communities. This perception only intensified after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, when …

Israel’s violence toward its neighbors, long out of control in its destruction of Gaza, now threatens to open new fronts, involve new nations, and even drag the United States into direct conflict. Promises of a ceasefire from the Biden Administration have come to nothing. Soft, behind the scenes diplomacy has …

Conservative and Labour governments supported Baghdad’s brutal attack on the Kurds 60 years ago, knowing it may have constituted genocide, declassified files show. UK ministers stepped up arms exports to Iraq’s regime after it launched a “terror campaign” against the Kurds in 1963Thousands of rockets were sent to Baghdad knowing …

What is the MENA region? MENA is the acronym for “Middle East and North Africa”, regularly used in academic and business writings. It refers to a large region, from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran in southwest Asia, which generally includes all the countries of the Middle East and North …

As world leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly, global attention is glued to the latest escalation taking place in the Middle East between Israel and Hezbollah, which has brought the region yet another step closer to all-out war. On Monday, nearly 500 people, including 35 children, …