The notion that a restrained reaction to outrageous provocation is often the wiser course has wide relevance. For example, it certainly applies to the U.S. reaction to 9/11, which cost trillions and led to well over a hundred times more deaths than the impelling event. And a case can be …

Europeans are more concerned about the continuation of war and violence in the occupied Palestinian areas than ever because the international community has once again attracted the attention of the West Asian region. The issue of Ukraine is gradually being forgotten. The statements of Ukrainian President Zelensky and Poland President …

Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments in the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on …

The Council’s neglect of its raison d’être in securing this waterway per its founding mission inadvertently created the pretext that NATO might soon exploit for militarizing the Red Sea, which could create unexpected security challenges for some of its members like Eritrea and Sudan. The Red Sea Council of littoral …

A public opinion poll published on November 14 showed that 75% of Palestinians support Hamas’s murder spree, including rape and beheadings, as opposed to only 13% who disapprove. Surprisingly, the poll found that support for Hamas and its “military operation” is even higher in the West Bank, where Abbas’s Palestinian …

OverviewThe southern arena: During the past few days the IDF forces continued operations at ShifaHospital and in several other neighborhoods in Gaza City. In the northern Gaza Strip theyoperated in Beit Hanoun, Zeitoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia, and destroyed a Palestinian IslamicJihad (PIJ) post where they found a large quantity …

Introduction Yemen’s population of around 30 million is over 99 percent Muslim, with about one-third of Yemenis belonging to the Zaidi Shia sect and two-thirds belonging to the Shafa’i school of Sunni Islam. Nevertheless, minorities of Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Baha’is have lived in Yemen for hundreds or in some …

Hezbollah and Israel traded rocket and missile fire in areas near the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday, officials on both sides said, in the latest flare-up of violence which the United States worries will cause conflict to spiral in the Middle East. The Iran-backed Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli …

Israel risks facing a long and bloody insurgency if it defeats Hamas and occupies Gaza without a credible post-war plan to withdraw its troops and move toward the creation of a Palestinian state, U.S. and Arab officials, diplomats and analysts said. None of the ideas floated so far by Israel, …

Many foreign mercenaries recruited by Kiev soon opt to flee Ukraine after experiencing the gruesome reality of the battlefield, an army officer told CNN on Sunday. Moscow has previously said that Kiev is using soldiers from other countries as cannon fodder to breach Russian defenses. In an interview with the …