Given the likely composition of the new administration, there seems no chance of Lebanon freeing itself any time soon from the dominance of Hezbollah and, in consequence, Iran. Lebanon has been without a government since the massive explosion of August 4, 2020, blew Beirut’s port apart and, with it, Lebanon’s …

Iran is at the top of CIA director Bill Burns’s agenda for his Israel visit as Iran nuclear deal negotiations continue to stall. CIA Director Bill Burns was set to arrive in Israel on Tuesday amid reports that the US is considering alternative ways to get Iran to stop advancing …

Multiple Mossad directors have told the Jerusalem Post that the first meetings with the CIA chief can be one of the major events that frame their term in office. With reports that CIA Director William Burns was set to arrive in Israel on Tuesday to hold a first meeting with …

The EU’s Josep Borrell systematically looks the other way for Iran’s human rights abuses, its terror activities throughout the Middle East and its threats against Israel. After countless EU lectures on human rights and the moral high ground it has taken towards Israel and others, the EU has crossed a …

Heat up northern Israel, to show it can strike anywhere it wants if it is pressed about the tanker attack. Iran is putting in place a new doctrine designed to preempt any response to its attack on a ship off the coast of Oman. In the week and a half …

According to the report, the Khark Island factory was emptied of all oil and petrochemical products and the fire is contained. A fire broke out in an Iranian petrochemical factory on Khark Island in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday morning, according to Iranian news agency Irib. According to the report, …

Unlike primacists, this ‘coalition’ actually embraces an internationalism that respects the rule of law, and diplomacy. In their recent journal article, political scientists John Ikenberry and Daniel Deudney laid out a critique of what they call the “Quincy Coalition” — a loose alliance of libertarians, neo-realists, and the progressive left.

With no end in sight and violence under the radar but ongoing, this is one ‘forever war’ that Biden risks perpetuating. For the little media coverage it receives these days, you might be forgiven for believing the U.S.-led coalition’s war in Syria and Iraq to be over. Osama Al-Hamid’s family …

Eyal Hulata and Meir Ben-Shabbat reportedly sit down with Abbas Kamel to discuss maintaining Gaza ceasefire brokered more than two months ago by Egypt The incoming and outgoing heads of the National Security Council reportedly traveled to Cairo on Sunday where they met with Egypt’s intelligence chief to discuss upholding …

Bahrain’s Undersecretary for International Relations Abdullah bin Ahmad al Khalifa says during a visit to Israel that Bahrain hoped that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would change Tehran’s behavior in the region, but instead it has brought about “more crises and violence.” “Was there any good result that we have …