Middle Orient

Despite Beijing’s maritime security priority, Ansarallah’s Red Sea ban on Israeli-linked shipping has boosted China’s regional standing while miring its US adversary in an unwinnable crisis. The Gaza war’s expansion into the Red Sea has created an international maritime crisis involving a host of countries. Despite a US-led bombing campaign …

Three decades after the Oslo Lie, neither the US nor the EU are in any position to dangle the promise of a Palestinian state. Is it sadly ironic that the issue of Palestinian statehood – unresolved for over 75 years – has resurfaced only after Israel’s wholesale carpet-bombing of the …

As the Iraqi Resistance continues to pressure the US to halt support for Israel’s war on Gaza, Baghdad – and Moscow – align closer with their agenda to expel US troops from Iraq. Surveillance devices on a local Baghdad thoroughfare captured on camera the assassination of an Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades …

Key Takeaways: Northern Gaza Strip: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) concluded a two-week long operation in Zaytoun neighborhood, southeastern Gaza City on March 3. The continued Palestinian militia attacks demonstrate that Israeli forces have not fully cleared Zaytoun and Palestinian militias in southern Gaza City likely retain some capacity to …

Depuis octobre, diverses ambassades de pays occidentaux dont la Grande-Bretagne ont fait venir forces spéciales & équipements de pointe sous prétexte d’évacuer leurs diplomates & leurs ressortissants. Le personnel de sécurité du Hezbollah a arrêté six ressortissants néerlandais dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth mercredi dernier, a rapporté Al-Akhbar le …

Israeli air and drone strikes have killed seven Hezbollah fighters, including a field commander, in less than 24 hours. Three of the fighters died when their car was targeted by an Israeli drone early on Saturday on the coastal road from Al-Naqoura toward the city of Tyre. The car caught …

Expressing Iran’s readiness to become a regional energy hub, President Ebrahim Raisi said the country could turn into a safe route for the transfer and distribution of natural gas among suppliers and consumers. Addressing the 7th summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Algeria on Saturday, Raisi highlighted …

Türkiye bears responsibility for the serious abuses and potential war crimes committed by members of its own forces and local armed groups it supports in Turkish-occupied territories of northern Syria, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Kurdish residents have borne the brunt of the abuses due to …

What Iran’s regime feared the most and tried to prevent for months finally came to pass on Friday, March 1, when its sham parliamentary elections was met with an unprecedented boycott by the Iranian people. The people of Iran dealt a severe blow to the regime’s political masquerade and once …

Recent developments and the humanitarian situation in Gaza are refocusing the world’s attention on a conflict doomed for decades to loiter on the second page of international newspapers and to stagnation in multilateral fora. The situation in Gaza is not an isolated development; the war in Sudan, the conflict in …