Introduction The U.S.’s plea bargain with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) would have prevented the full exposure of Qatar’s role and responsibility in the attack. The plea bargain, which has now been rescinded by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, brought to light new and old documents about …

Latest Developments The secretary of Russia’s Security Council arrived in Tehran on August 5 as fears of an Iranian strike on Israel continued to grow. Sergei Shoigu, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shown on the Russian Ministry of Defense-controlled Zvezda TV channel meeting Rear Adm. Ali …

In a brazen act that has sent shockwaves across the Middle East, Ismail Haniyeh, the exiled political chief of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday in Tehran. The 62-year-old Palestinian leader was killed during a visit to Iran to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Haniyeh, a key …

The NATO 2030 report, presented in early December in Brussels, recognizes Russia as the main threat of the coming decade. The alliance is moving to a containment strategy characteristic of the Cold War. Military observer Alexander Golts believes that the unity of the West is especially evident against the backdrop …

Russia has conducted a prisoner exchange with the United States and Germany. According to The Insider, political prisoners Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Alsu Kurmasheva, Andrei Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Alexandra Skochilenko, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Evan Gershkovich, Rico Krieger, Kevin Leake, Demuri Voronin, Vadim Ostanin, Patrick Schoebel, Paul Whelan and Herman …

By hailing Haniyeh as a “great leader,” Abbas and his Palestinian Authority cohorts are sending a message to all Palestinians that the murderous Hamas leader is their role model. [T]he Biden-Harris administration and those who continue to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel…. must be reminded …

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 …