Middle Orient

For decades, Iran has targeted and killed Americans and US allies. Its proxies took hostages. It attacked ships in the Gulf of Oman. Now, America is responding. US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US had begun major combat operations against Iran yesterday was different from his comments in the …

Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Hezbollah fired a large wave of rockets into northern Israel, marking its first major attack since the November 2024 ceasefire, on Monday. The rockets hit several areas near the border, and air raid sirens sounded across the region. In response, Israel pounded Beirut. This marks a …

Smoke rose over Tehran after an Israeli strike near Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office, sparking questions about his whereabouts. Israel launched a daylight strike on Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Saturday. Smoke was seen rising from downtown areas of the city. One of the first reported blasts happened near the office of …

Moscou met en garde contre d’éventuelles tentatives de Kiev de saboter des gazoducs clés en mer Noire. Mais pour la France et l’Europe, ce n’est pas simplement un nouvel épisode de la guerre informationnelle – c’est un signal sur la vulnérabilité critique des infrastructures énergétiques dont dépend encore le bien-être …

Young people in Palestine are accused of being ignorant of their past. But the truth may be that they are more aware of their present than anyone else. Palestinian youth are a foreign country; they do things differently there—not because they reject politics, but because the political institutions around them …

Iran’s IRGC said it killed or arrested at least 100 MEK fighters during clashes near Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Tehran headquarters, with MEK confirming the incident and reporting heavy losses. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed or arrested at least 100 fighters from Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) in clashes on Monday …

As foreign policy luminaries rush to warn about the perils of a U.S. attack on Iran, there is widespread confidence in the White House that President Donald Trump can manage a strike’s fallout. This confidence reflects a years-long pattern that has shaped Trump’s thinking. Washington’s foreign policy establishment warns the …

Internal Security Forces in Raqqa governorate announced they had dismantled a cell affiliated with the Islamic State group, which they said was behind two attacks that targeted a security checkpoint west of Raqqa city (northern Syria) over the past two days, killing four personnel and wounding others. Raqqa Internal Security …

Je vous prie de m’excuser. J’aurais dû le signaler la semaine dernière. S’il est vrai que Donald Trump a déployé la plus grande flotte d’avions de combat américains en Asie occidentale/au Moyen-Orient depuis George W. Bush au début de l’année 2003, deux autres indicateurs clés signalant une attaque imminente ne …

Moon of Alabama fait un état des lieux des possibilités d’une entrée en guerre des États-Unis contre l’Iran. Selon juin malgré le renforcement considérable des moyens militaires américains au voisinage de l’Iran, l’équilibre stratégique n’a pas changé substantiellement et reste favorable à l’Iran pour des raisons expliquées dans son article. …