On June 12, 2024, Hezbollah announced the death of Sami Taleb Abdallah, aka al-Hajj Abu Taleb, in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the town of Jwayya in south Lebanon. Three other Hezbollah operatives were killed in the attack. The IDF spokesperson confirmed that the Israeli Air Force had …

[Video plays] MR. IGNATIUS: So– GEN. MILLEY: Who was that guy? MR. IGNATIUS: –I’m David Ignatius– [Laughter] MR. IGNATIUS: –a columnist for The Washington Post. It’s my pleasure to be joined by General Mark Milley, former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff who looks a lot younger, a lot more relaxed …

For years, to avoid the confusion between Georgia the country, and Georgia the U.S. state, international media referred to the former as a post-Soviet entity. It seemed that only in the wake of the 2008 Georgian-Russian war (when Americans were finally assured that it was not their state being attacked) …

Battlefield Assessment Russia made incremental gains across multiple fronts this week. In east and northeast Ukraine, the Kremlin’s forces launched an increased number of aerial and ground attacks in multiple areas, such as Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk. Positional clashes also continued along several flashpoints, including Kupiansk, Nevske, and the wider Bakhmut …

The Deep State should have been alert five years ago when Candidate Joe Biden announced that he, if elected as president, was determined to make the Saudi rulers “pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.” Biden was blunt to the point of being brutal …

Bitcoin looks different to everyone observing it, a modern parable of the blind men and the elephant. To economists, it looks like inferior money since it doesn’t have a supply response. To regulators, it looks like sneaky attempts to launder money and evade taxes. To the wider public, it looks …

La gravité de la constellation des BRICS, récemment élargis, attire des adhérents arabes, musulmans et du Sud mondial vers le message de ce groupe influent sur le droit international, la Palestine et l’arrêt des guerres perpétuelles. Un événement d’une ampleur extraordinaire s’est produit à Moscou le 23 mai. Le roi …

Baku opens the Zangazur Corridor The collective West considers the possibility of the economic and commercial route connecting Europe and Asia passing through Iran as a geostrategic threat. In response, Western political circles have begun emphasizing the importance of opening the Zangazur Corridor to avoid this threat. This development is …

Earlier this week, those of us who follow news about the US dollar’s global status noticed numerous claims that the US-Saudi petrodollar agreement had “expired” and that the Saudis would now sell oil for many currencies other than dollars. Some versions of the story even claimed the Chinese yuan would …

In a previous article about the Iranian regime’s upcoming elections masquerade, we wrote: “The main and amusing feature of this drama is that all six actors play the same role and say the same thing with minor differences. They not only declare their allegiance to regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, …