Middle Orient

NOTE: ISW-CTP will no longer publish morning updates covering the war with Iran. ISW-CTP will instead publish threads on its social media channels in the morning that cover the latest developments in the war and include relevant maps.Key Takeaways The United States presented a 15-point proposal to Iran via Pakistan …

An array of former British security officials are advising a US-based group that is cheerleading the US/Israel war on Iran Senior British military and intelligence figures including two former UK security ministers and a head of special forces are advising a US organisation that has long supported military action against …

Exclusive: Scottish factory helps make US Tomahawk missiles reportedly used in attack on the Minab compound in Iran, where over 100 children were killed. Graves being prepared for the victims of the Minab school massacre. (Iranian Foreign Media Department / Alamy) On 28 February, a girls’ primary school in southern …

Kiran unlocked her dosa shop in Bangalore before sunrise, a morning routine she had followed for many years. Only, this time she was not able to open for business. The price of gas had surged again, and deliveries of a LPG cylinder had become uncertain. Thousands of kilometers away in …

New restrictions on movement and a deadly surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank have raised fears that Israel is exploiting the war on Iran to accelerate its long-term goal of annexing the Palestinian territory. At least 11 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and settlers …

The Iran war reflects how drones are no longer supporting weapons but central instruments of modern conflict, redefining how battles are fought and defended In over two weeks of war, unmanned weapons systems have become the backbone of Iran’s strategy, targeting military bases, energy facilities, ports, and shipping lanes – …

As the Middle East confronts a rapidly escalating confrontation between the US, Israel, and Iran, the already fragile ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip has returned to the centre of regional political calculations. What once appeared to be a tentative pause in the most devastating war in Gaza’s modern history …

For nearly two decades, the Litani River functioned as an informal red line in the uneasy balance between Israel and Hezbollah. Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Lebanon War, the area south of the river was meant to be free of heavy Hezbollah military presence, …

The U.S. metric for effective cooperation shouldn’t be whether Syria is willing to fight Iran’s proxies in Lebanon or Iraq, but whether it continues advancing regional stability by securing its borders, limiting the flow of Iranian weapons and fighters, and coordinating politically with neighbors. A March 17 Reuters report suggested …

“The conqueror need not be stronger than the conquered. He need only be more willing to endure.” — Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, 14th century “No people has ever been liberated by a war it could not endure.” — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961 “All human beings are members …