The wrong question Faced with two wars, nuclear confrontation, extreme economic inequality, and a climate crisis — not to mention threats to reproductive rights, forever chemicals, housing shortages, gun violence, and rising educational debt – what do 82% of Republican and 39% of Democratic voters, according to a Pew Research …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Syrian regime’s government issued a statement condemning the Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and offering condolences on the killing of the Lebanese Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The statement, which was reported by the official Syrian news agency (SANA) on Saturday, September …

Investigation The Syrian army is getting its hands on new-looking EU-branded trucks. An undercover investigation found evidence of a secretive supply chain routing vehicles from Europe to Syria through neighboring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon. Syria’s civil war is one of the most devastating conflicts of the 21st century. …

To End the War and Build a Lasting Peace, the Country Must Reinvent Its Own Democracy In late July 2024, Israel experienced one of the biggest shocks to law and order in its history. For several hours, dozens of Israeli protesters were able to infiltrate two military compounds largely unimpeded, …

Europe was at the center of the two world wars and suffered enormously. Since then the weapons of war have become much more destructive. There are over 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world, and the actual use of less than 10% of this is enough to destroy the entire world …

Amid ongoing high-level meetings between NATO leaders and Ukrainian officials at the United Nations over plans to allow Kiev to strike Russian cities with NATO weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined Wednesday a proposed update to Russia’s nuclear policy document that would expand the conditions under which Moscow would use …

Latest Developments An armed drone launched by Iraqi-based terrorists struck the port of the southern Israeli city of Eilat on September 25, causing damage and lightly injuring two civilians, including a 68-year-old and a 28-year-old. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it identified two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) launched …

Israeli intelligence and information superiority contributed to striking several strategic targets of Hezbollah, whether at the leadership level or in the infrastructure. Accordingly, this paper seeks to read the Israeli strategy towards the party before and after the war in the Gaza Strip, which contributed to a large extent to …

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 …

As relations between Moscow and the West have deteriorated in the course of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government has been focusing on islands belonging to Western countries as possible targets for attack, especially those with complicated legal and demographic situations (see EDM, June 11). Earlier this year, Moscow …