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On August 28, 2024, journalists exposed a wiretapping scandal that the Iraqi Intelligence Service apparently disrupted. Iraqi security officials arrested seven suspects, several of...
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Beirut, the once-fabled “Paris of the Middle East”, has been down on its luck in recent years. The lack of attention to Lebanon’s decline...
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Sometimes a country’s military is desperate to modernize its ground forces, even if it means using an old platform from the 1960s. Such is...
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The Biden administration is playing defense. The Iranian government is open about its so-called “Axis of Resistance,” a patchwork of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-sponsored...
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Yesterday, an apparent Israeli airstrike killed Ismail Haniyeh, the Qatar-based political chief of Hamas, as he retired to a Tehran house after attending the...
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Against the backdrop of Hamas’ October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel, Hezbollah, a Hamas ally and IRGC affiliate, intervened to supplement pressure from Gazan...
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On Sunday, Israel carried out a long-range aerial attack on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. The air strike, a retaliation for a drone incursion into...
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The State Department Operations Center called me in the middle of the night 34 years ago this summer – August 2, 1990 – to...
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“With the election of the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian as president,” the New York Times advised dreamily, “Iran may see a softening of its...