Toplines The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed Hezbollah’s “de facto chief of staff” and senior commander Haitham Ali Tabatabai in Beirut’s southern suburbs on November 23.[1] Tabatabai’s death will likely disrupt Hezbollah’s reconstitution for a short period because of Tabatabai’s significant experience at many echelons of command in fighting against …

More than ten civilians, including women and children, were killed and 11 others injured when the Israeli army bombed the town of Beit Jinn (in the Damascus countryside near Mount Hermon in southern Syria) at dawn on Friday, 28 November. The town is currently witnessing a wave of displacement to …

The Islamic Group in Lebanon has expressed surprise at Israel dragging its name into what it called the Israeli “attack” on the Syrian town of Beit Jinn (a town in the southwestern countryside of Damascus, near the occupied Syrian Golan Heights), denying Israeli accusations that it carries out any activities …

Le zugzwang est une situation dans le jeu d’échecs dans laquelle le joueur n’a aucun mouvement favorable possible – toute action qu’il fera entraînera une détérioration imminente de sa position sur le plateau de jeu. Dans le cadre des actuelles négociations officieuses de l’accord de paix entre l’Ukraine et la …

Le contre-amiral en deuxième section Claude Gaucherand est né à Caen en décembre 1939 puis effectue sa scolarité au collège d’Antibes. En 1959 il est reçu au concours de l’École navale, il quitte le service actif en 1996. Pilote de chasse, (5000 heures de vol environ), marin (trois tours du …

Après avoir rejeté un plan qui aurait vu l’Ukraine céder des territoires à la Russie, ses dirigeants sont soumis à de nouvelles pressions. Le plan en 28 points de Trump pour l’Ukraine, divulgué par l’ancien envoyé américain en Ukraine Keith Kellogg, était une tentative pour mettre fin à la guerre, …

Le nouveau plan de paix de Donald Trump, s’il va de manière apparente dans la bonne direction, sera inacceptable pour la Russie, car il reste en l’état un piège géopolitique américain. Ce plan vise pour Washington à se désengager de cette guerre par proxy contre la Russie, qu’ils ont provoquée …

The Palestinian terror groups clearly want to hold on to their weapons: they evidently see that having weapons is the only way for them to control, directly and indirectly, any new government established in the Gaza Strip. They also evidently see that whoever is in charge of security in the …

“Hamas is committed to disarming according to the ceasefire agreement. But Hamas is not disarming. It is rebuilding its control,” Col. Nadav Shoshani tells a group of foreign reporters gathered at a base of the IDF’s 252nd Division in Gaza. Shoshani is the IDF’s international spokesman. The position is located …

Toplines Unspecified Iranian officials told The Telegraph on November 25 that the Houthis and some unspecified Iranian-backed Iraqi groups have become less responsive to Tehran.[1] The Iranian officials mischaracterized Iran’s relationship with the Houthis and Iraqi militias by misrepresenting how the Axis of Resistance functions, however. The Telegraph, citing unspecified …