The revelation that Israel established secret military bases inside Iraq during the recent war against Iran is far more than another episode in the region’s long history of covert operations. It signals a deeper transformation in Middle Eastern geopolitics: the normalization of clandestine cross-border military infrastructures, the erosion of Iraqi …

Several Syrian areas witnessed separate incidents during the days that coincided with the Eid al-Adha holiday, including shootings and clashes that left people dead and wounded in more than one governorate. In Hama countryside (western Syria), two civilians were killed and four others wounded in a shooting that targeted people …

The ongoing war in the Middle East has seen American defense companies making gargantuan profits; these profits, however, come at the cost of the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have become the victims of American and Israeli aggression. War is said to be good for business. This, …