For nearly two decades, the Litani River functioned as an informal red line in the uneasy balance between Israel and Hezbollah. Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Lebanon War, the area south of the river was meant to be free of heavy Hezbollah military presence, …

The U.S. metric for effective cooperation shouldn’t be whether Syria is willing to fight Iran’s proxies in Lebanon or Iraq, but whether it continues advancing regional stability by securing its borders, limiting the flow of Iranian weapons and fighters, and coordinating politically with neighbors. A March 17 Reuters report suggested …

“The conqueror need not be stronger than the conquered. He need only be more willing to endure.” — Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, 14th century “No people has ever been liberated by a war it could not endure.” — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961 “All human beings are members …

Members of the International Energy Agency have agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves. Iran’s paralysis of the Strait of Hormuz has led to major disruption in global oil and gas supply and many countries have begun tapping into their strategic oil reserves to evade an …

Hours after Israel’s assassination of Iranian security chief Ali Larijani on March 17, a little more than two weeks into their war, Iran fired a series of deadly cluster missiles at central Israel in what its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) described as “revenge” for his death. The overnight attack …

Originally from Kosovo, Hamdi Lataj has listed his address in one of Toronto’s most exclusive condo towers, sits courtside at Raptors basketball games, and appears in a music video for the hip-hop superstar Drake. The 62-year-old man of Albanian descent appears to live a life of luxury. But police and …

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Nous rejetons la guerre. Mais pour mettre fin aux guerres, les journalistes doivent travailler sans crainte ni intimidation, et la propriété des médias ne peut pas devenir un moyen de contrôle, écrit Ramzy Baroud. Le secrétaire américain à la Défense, Pete Hegseth, semble avoir peu de patience pour les questions …

The Iraqi government may not care about protecting Americans from Tehran’s militias, but it should certainly care about protecting its own citizens. Amidst bombardments against American assets in the region, Iraqi militias struck Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) on March 22, injuring five, and the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) on …