Middle Orient

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed to respond to Israel after deadly airstrikes on Hodeida’s port area left some killed and dozens wounded. Israeli warplanes struck the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding another 87 according to health authorities. It comes a day after …

The Islamic State is on pace to carry out more than double the number of attacks in Iraq and Syria in 2024 than it did the year before, representing the terrorist network’s attempt to reconstitute. The U.S. Central Command announced on Monday that it had tracked 153 ISIS attacks so …

Baghdad is trying to balance its relations with regional and global powers that wield substantial leverage over Iraq.Iraq has downplayed its opposition to Turkish military operations against Kurdish oppositionists inside Iraq to further its bilateral agenda with Ankara.Iraq’s relations with Türkiye are intertwined with tensions between Arab Iraq and the …

In October 2018, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered a speech at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium in front of 80,000 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to promote the patriotic political program “Islam First.” He urged his fellow countrymen to take pride in Iran’s prestige in the region …

Zachary Foster énumère et décrit les 8 catégories, ou niveaux juridiques, qui segmentent la population en Palestine occupée, c’est-à-dire ce qui correspond à ce qu’on appelle l’État sioniste et à ce qu’on appelle les territoires occupés (Gaza et Cisjordanie) Ces niveaux correspondent à des types de populations différents (juifs et …

Two drones targeted the Ain al-Asad Airbase in Iraq on July 16, a military outpost that hosts American and coalition forces. The drone strikes mark the second attack on American forces in Iraq since early February when the Islamic Republic’s Iraqi proxies temporarily halted their attacks on American forces. An …

Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have played a key role in shaping the country’s nationalist and militaristic discourse, with Oct. 7 marking their apex. For the last few months, people around the world have been closely following the ongoing brutality of the war in Gaza. Pictures of Palestinians fleeing south …

Iranian-backed Iraqi militias appear to have resumed their attack campaign targeting US forces in Iraq. Iranian-backed Iraqi militias launched two one-way attack drones targeting US and coalition forces at Ain al Asad Airbase in Anbar Province, Iraq on July 16, according to two Iraqi militia “officials” cited by Western media.[i] …

ISIS carried out at least 29 confirmed attacks in June in the Homs, Hama, Raqqa, Deir Ez Zor, and Aleppo governorates. These attacks killed at least 49 pro-Assad regime soldiers and two civilians and wounded at least 23 more soldiers and civilians. There were also 12 high quality* attacks carried …

America Must Rediscover the Ideological Flexibility That Helped It Win the Cold War “It is clear, absolutely clear,” said Joe Biden, speaking about today’s key geopolitical contest at his first press conference as president, “that this is a battle between the utility of democracies in the twenty-first century and autocracies.” …