Middle Orient

Hezbollah’s launch of the Iranian-made Almas missile — reverse-engineered from the Israeli ATGM, Spike — is a major military development in the northern battlefield, and a dismaying surprise for Tel Aviv. On 25 January, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah orchestrated a bold strike against Israel’s strategic Jal al-Alam site, using …

Since the eruption of the latest war in Gaza on Oct. 7, the international community has sought an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and a clear pathway to a two-state solution as a means to settle the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has made it clear he …

At least three U.S. soldiers were killed and 34 were wounded in an attack on a U.S. outpost near the Syria-Jordan border on January 28. The Islamic Resistance Forces in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks, also claiming that they had targeted at least two other U.S. bases in Syria …

Early Sunday morning, local time, a drone successfully struck a US military facility on the Iraq/Syria/Jordan border. Three US servicemembers were killed and several dozen were injured. The US Central Command claims that the attack hit a facility inside Jordan, but Jordan and the “Iraqi Resistance,” which took credit for …

Dans une vidéo datant de 2006, Judith Butler affirmait que «le Hamas et le Hezbollah sont des mouvements sociaux progressistes et font partie de la gauche mondiale». L’essayiste queer étatsunienne montrait une maîtrise des problématiques de l’«Orient compliqué» aussi brillante que ses connaissances de l’intimité masculine. Cette prise de position …

Les hommes politiques et les médias mainstream occidentaux ont longtemps dupé leur monde, en faisant croire à qui veut l’entendre que le parti politique palestinien Hamas, pivot ces dernières années de la résistance armée, contre l’occupant israélien, serait une organisation «terroriste» «fondamentaliste», « islamiste». Et de marteler : «tantôt proche …

«La Résistance islamique en Irak a revendiqué la responsabilité d’une attaque majeure contre une base militaire américaine en Jordanie. Les États-Unis ont déclaré que le nombre de victimes «pourrait augmenter»». Trois soldats américains ont été tués et plus de 30 autres blessés dans une attaque de drone contre une base …

Mark Wallace told The Sun that Iranian terror chiefs should be preparing to be wiped out as the only “correct action” is a large-scale blitz of their military bases inside Iran. Wallace, former US ambassador to the UN, said: “President Biden established his red line with Iran, which was that …

THE Iran-sponsored Houthi rebels allegedly held secret terror meetings with al-Qaeda to plot a wave of “suicide attacks” against the West, sources revealed. The Yemen-based militia reportedly tried to “persuade” their Islamist terrorist allies to join their fight in the Red Sea to help inflict further pain on their “mutual …

Although it’s been decades since he left Palestine, building a life for himself and his loved ones in the Austin area, memories of olive trees and hills, of family and him sharing meals under an orange sun, flowed through Ahmad Zamer on most days. Having been able to visit the …