September 28, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
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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September 28, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
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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September 28, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
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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September 28, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
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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September 28, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
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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September 26, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
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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September 26, 2024 Eurasia
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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September 26, 2024 Africa, Eurasia, Middle Orient, South East Asia
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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September 26, 2024 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
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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September 26, 2024 Eurasia
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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