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The Iron Swords –
The war in the south of Israel
Updated to 1 p.m., October 17, 2023

The southern sector: The IDF continued its activity in the Gaza Strip, mainly by conductingairstrikes against terrorist targets of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Severalthousand terrorist targets have been attacked since the beginning of the war. Using precision-guided munitions, Israeli Navy ships attacked Hamas military-terrorist targets from the sea,including …

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Challenges of Expanding the SCO to Caucasus and the Middle East

The rapid and significant horizontal and vertical expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has had a negative impact on the coherence, coordination, efficiency and especially the executive guarantee of the organisation’s policies and decisions, writes Vali Kaleji. Executive summary In his article, Dr. Vali Kaleji, a Tehran-based expert on …

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Will US troops be drawn into the Israel-Gaza war?

A former CIA counterterror analyst says the chances of direct American involvement are ‘higher than most people realize.’ It’s now been five days since Hamas staged the most ambitious attack in its history. The Palestinian militants broke through the fence dividing Gaza from Israel and managed to hold territory for …

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Why does Egypt fear evacuating Gaza?

Cairo worries that, instead of saving lives, a ‘humanitarian corridor’ could be a pretense to permanently exile Palestinians UPDATE 10/13: The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of the entire north half of Gaza, home to 1 million people, on Thursday night. The United Nations said that the evacuation order — …

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