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September, 2024

  • 28 September

    Taleb Sami Abdallah

    Terror organization: Hezbollah Status: Commander of Nasser unit. The Nasser unit is responsible for the area between the border with Israel and the Litani River. Role: He was an operative since the establishment of the organization. He joined Hezbollah in 1984. In 1992-1994 participated in the war in Bosnia. In …

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  • 28 September

    Israel’s new war front in Lebanon has no clear off-ramp

    Analysis: Israel’s military escalation aims to return displaced Israelis to the north and decouple Hezbollah from a ceasefire in Gaza. It is a high-risk gamble. There has recently been an alarming escalation of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. On 23 September, Lebanon experienced its deadliest day since the end of its civil …

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  • 28 September

    Israeli Strikes on Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon Kill Nearly 500

    Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon killed almost 500 people, including dozens of women and children, and wounded more than 1,600, according to Lebanese authorities, in the deadliest wave of strikes since the current hostilities began in October. The Israeli military said it launched strikes against more than 1,300 locations …

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  • 28 September

    In a high-risk move, Israel ramps up escalation against Hezbollah

    In recent years, many Israelis, both regular citizens as well as policymakers, have concluded that a war with Hezbollah was necessary — perhaps inevitable — given the Lebanese militant group’s on-again, off-again missile strikes against Israel’s border communities. This perception only intensified after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, when …

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  • 28 September

    Biden Can Halt Wider War: Stop Sending Arms

    Israel’s violence toward its neighbors, long out of control in its destruction of Gaza, now threatens to open new fronts, involve new nations, and even drag the United States into direct conflict. Promises of a ceasefire from the Biden Administration have come to nothing. Soft, behind the scenes diplomacy has …

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  • 26 September

    When Britain armed Iraq’s genocidal war on the Kurds

    Conservative and Labour governments supported Baghdad’s brutal attack on the Kurds 60 years ago, knowing it may have constituted genocide, declassified files show. UK ministers stepped up arms exports to Iraq’s regime after it launched a “terror campaign” against the Kurds in 1963Thousands of rockets were sent to Baghdad knowing …

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  • 26 September

    Une contrée sauvage de miroirs : La dernière guerre de l’Hégémon

    Andrei Martyanov s’est taillé une place unique, auréolée d’une pensée critique profonde sur toutes les questions de guerre et de paix. Dans ses livres précédents, sur son blog Reminiscence of the Future et dans d’innombrables podcasts, il est devenu la source incontournable pour tout ce qui concerne les rouages de …

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  • 26 September

    Doing Business In The MENA Region – Analysis

    What is the MENA region? MENA is the acronym for “Middle East and North Africa”, regularly used in academic and business writings. It refers to a large region, from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran in southwest Asia, which generally includes all the countries of the Middle East and North …

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  • 26 September

    Why Israel’s Assault On Lebanon’s Hezbollah Puts Iran’s IRGC In An Unprecedented Dilemma – Analysis

    As world leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly, global attention is glued to the latest escalation taking place in the Middle East between Israel and Hezbollah, which has brought the region yet another step closer to all-out war. On Monday, nearly 500 people, including 35 children, …

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  • 26 September

    European Union Morphs Into NATO’s Financial War Machine – OpEd

    Two key posts – in foreign and defense policy – reveal the militarist and anti-Russia direction of the European Union. Ursula Von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission – which works as the executive branch of the European Union – announced her new team of commissioners for the …

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