Middle Orient

In a world where American adversaries across the globe are deepening their strategic partnerships to undermine U.S. power and influence, Michael Singh correctly highlights the need to integrate America’s Middle East policy into an overarching U.S. grand strategy. China today is in a stronger position in the Middle East than …

As the conflict with Israel escalates, the path forward for the party is one fraught with obstacles. As Hezbollah’s conflict with Israel escalates, the party is in a bind. Its capacity to maintain its deterrence capacity vis-a-vis Israel has been severely constrained by its unwillingness to provoke an all-out war …

Dans un contexte de tension, il est difficile de comprendre ce qui se passe réellement. L’anxiété ne mène nulle part. Ce qui est pertinent, c’est de prendre une grande inspiration et d’observer les événements pour saisir leur nature, leur cause, leur mode d’apparition et leur trajectoire future. L’ennemi n’a pas …

The United States is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East following a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder said on Monday. Ryder did not provide further details on the number of forces or …

The intensifying operations between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah are part of the broader war that Israel has fought since October 7, 2023. Hezbollah has conducted almost daily attacks into Israel since the war began in order to compel Israel to accept defeat in the Gaza Strip and thus preserve Hamas.[1] …

Chancellor Scholz’s party secured a narrow win in the state of Brandenburg. But the victory cannot disguise Germany’s political and economic woes that also affect the EU. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lived to fight another day, thanks to Dietmar Woidke. But Germany faces multiple crises and how it manages them …

Lebanese sources say a top Hezbollah missile commander Ibrahim Qubaisi is among six killed in an IDF strike on Beirut. The top Hezbollah commander in charge of the terror group’s missile unit was killed in an Israeli strike on a Beirut apartment building, two Lebanese security sources have told Reuters. …

Israeli warplanes pounded villages in south Lebanon for a third day, Lebanese media reported Wednesday, while Israel said it intercepted a missile fired after sirens sounded early morning in Tel Aviv. Lebanese officials said hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the south this week to avoid …

How to Avert a Larger War That Neither Side Should Want Within 24 hours of Hamas’s October 7 terror attack, Hezbollah followed with an attack of its own, launching projectiles from Lebanon into northern Israel. Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, explained that the campaign was intended to strain Israel’s resources and …

This past week Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 77 attacks on military and civilian targetsin Israel, including the first attacks on the Jezreel Valley, the Lower Galilee and the suburbsaround Haifa. An attempt by a Hezbollah terrorist squad to plant an explosive device bombnear an IDF post was foiled. Two IDF …