January, 2024

• 19 January

  ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in December 2023

  ISIS carried out at least 14 confirmed attacks in December in the Homs, Hama, Raqqa, Aleppo, and Deir Ez Zor governorates. These attacks killed at least 19 pro-Assad regime soldiers and six civilians and wounded at least 14 more soldiers and civilians. There were also four high quality* attacks during …

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• 18 January

  The TTP’s Terrorist Threat To Pakistan Is Metastasizing

  

  The challenge ahead is a formidable one that will require the military-intelligence services to fully focus on this newly metastasized terrorist threat in order to emerge victorious, which in turn necessitates their top brass giving them the order to abandon the all-out nationwide crackdown against the opposition. Pakistan’s prior large-scale …

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• 18 January

  Worsening Iranian-Pakistani Tensions Could Threaten Eurasian Integration Processes

  

  Unless there’s an all-out conventional war between Iran and Pakistan, which isn’t expected unless their newly exacerbated but long-running security dilemma spirals out of control into one by miscalculation (perhaps due to US meddling), Eurasian integration won’t be dealt a deathblow. Nevertheless, very clear limits will be placed upon it …

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• 18 January

  Operation Iron Swords (Updated to 1 p.m., January 17, 2024)

  

  The southern arena: The IDF forces continued the integrated ground maneuver in the Gaza Strip, focusing on the Khan Yunis area. In the central Gaza Strip, the IDF forces destroyed a strategic set of tunnels that connected the northern and southern Gaza Strip and were used to transport Hamas operatives. …

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• 18 January

  Pakistan militant Sunni group targets minorities

  A Sunni militant group known for targeting rival Muslims has emerged as a dangerous new player in Pakistan, sending a pair of suicide bombers this week to detonate themselves inside a church in the deadliest ever attack against Pakistani Christians. The brutal assault, which killed 85 worshippers during Sunday services, …

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• 18 January

  Iran says it targeted ‘Iranian terrorist group’ in Pakistan

  

  Tehran’s top diplomat said on Wednesday that his country’s armed forces targeted an “Iranian terrorist group” in Pakistan the day before, after Islamabad said the strike killed two children. “On Pakistan, none of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan were targeted by Iranian missiles and drones,” …

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• 18 January

  Pakistan-Iran strikes: All you need to know about the latest developments

  

  Pakistan conducted lethal strikes inside Iran on Thursday, two days after Tehran attacked alleged Israel-linked militant bases on Pakistan soil. Pakistan’s strikes resulted in women and children casualties, while Iran’s attack on Pakistan killed two children. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the …

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• 18 January

  Pakistani retaliatory strikes in Iran kill at least 9, raising tensions along border

  

  Pakistan launched airstrikes against alleged militant hideouts inside Iran on Thursday, killing at least nine people as it retaliated for a similar attack days earlier by Iran and raising tensions with its neighbor as conflict across the region escalates. The unprecedented attacks by both Pakistan and Iran on either side …

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• 18 January

  Pakistan’s Retaliation Against Iran Debunks The Theory That They’re Secretly Cooperating

  

  Iran absolutely wouldn’t have authorized any retaliatory Pakistani strikes on its territory like Mohammad Marandi and Pepe Escobar’s explicitly stated and strongly implied theories would respectively suggest if there was any truth to their interpretation of why Iran struck Pakistan earlier in the week. Pakistan confirmed on Thursday morning that …

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• 18 January

  Mer Rouge : Les Houthis ne cèdent pas à Washington, le commerce maritime international de plus en plus perturbé

  

  Le mouvement Ansar Allah a fait savoir qu’il continuerait «d’empêcher la navigation associée à l’ennemi israélien». Les opérations menées par le mouvement houthi en mer Rouge perturbent le trafic maritime international. Les compagnies de transport doivent contourner le continent africain, occasionnant déjà des retards de livraisons. Malgré les frappes américano-britanniques, …

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