Washington and its allies are waiting for Beirut to acknowledge the difficult but unavoidable truth: that war will resume unless serious action is taken to target all the pillars of Hezbollah’s power, bolster Shia political alternatives, and otherwise satisfy the ceasefire’s most important requirement: disarming the group. Although major military …

Latest Developments 2 Attacks in a Day: Two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded in a West Bank stabbing attack on December 2. The stabbing occurred when an IDF patrol was dispatched to the Israeli West Bank community of Ateret, near Ramallah, to investigate a suspicious individual who stabbed the soldiers …

The Syrian-Iraqi border is witnessing a new phase characterized by strategic competition and ideological disparity, and its importance goes beyond being just a bilateral border to turn into a geopolitical hotbed of tension that is likely to influence the future regional landscape. Despite the current relative calm, this stability remains …

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Chaos erupted among government agencies in Iraq on Thursday after Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis appeared briefly on a list of terrorist groups facing sanctions, before it was quickly retracted. A terrorist listing would be a surprise move against Iranian allies with connections in Iraq. The Official Gazette published on …

Signed just days before UN sanctions snapped back into place, the $25-billion Russia–Iran nuclear deal signals a defiant alignment against western pressure, with small modular reactors at the heart of Tehran’s long-term energy ambitions. Just days before the return of UN sanctions on Iran, Russia hosted a major nuclear deal …

Tehran and Moscow’s new contract for the Rasht–Astara Railway deal unlocks the final segment of a Eurasian freight artery In the latest development, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Farzaneh Sadegh, announced on 26 October that a final contract with Russia for the construction of the Rasht–Astara Railway would …

The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has offered the first real opening to end the two-year war in Gaza. The outlines of a peace process have broad buy-in, with the UN Security Council approving U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed plan on November 17, but many political questions remain unresolved. …

Iran has sent the Lebanese militia Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year via money exchanges and other businesses in Dubai, as Tehran seeks new ways to funnel money to its ally, people familiar with the matter said. Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, is in desperate need …