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Hezbollah – Iran’s Pawn – OpEd

A war with Israel is the last thing that Lebanon needs. The Lebanese people are in the midst of a severe economic downturn, facing soaring prices and severe shortages of food and basic commodities. Hezbollah-allied political, financial and business leaders, the source of the graft and corruption at the heart …

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Ukraine Military Situation: Few Frontline Changes – Analysis

Battlefield UpdateLast week’s fighting brought few frontline changes, save for minor Russian tactical advances: the war remains positional. The overall situation, nonetheless, should not be characterized as a stalemate. Ukrainian engineering units have not matched their Russian counterparts in defensive depth-building, while Ukraine’s military resilience has been tied to Western …

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Iran And Pakistan: Another Front For An Already Embattled Islamabad – Analysis

The badlands that form the Iran-Pakistan border have for years been notorious for smuggling, human trafficking, narcotics trade, and of course, movement of insurgents and terrorists. It is anything but a tranquil frontier because skirmishes, shallow incursions and raids, and even occasional mortar shelling are fairly routine. But both countries …

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Iran Came Out On Top After Its Tit-For-Tat Strikes With Pakistan

Iran successfully advanced five strategic objectives: 1) preemptively thwarting an imminent terrorist attack from Pakistani soil; 2) flexing its military muscles before the domestic and international audiences; 3) suggesting that Pakistani-emanating terrorist threats are as dangerous as threats from Israel and the US; 4) reinforcing perceptions of Pakistan as a …

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Iran missile strike near US consulate kills prominent Kurdish businessman, IRGC claims Mossad HQ hit

Iran said it targeted a “Mossad spy headquarters” as “revenge” after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bombings that killed dozens in Tehran. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli spy headquarters in a series of airstrikes near the U.S. consulate in Erbil, Iraq, and …

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