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January 30, 2024
Gaza War: Israel’s Next Choice Could Be Its Hardest Yet
Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant met with members of the Israeli Artillery Corps near the Gaza border on Monday, January 29. He shared coffee with them, brewed in a metal tin, and poured into...
January 30, 2024
Israel faces Hezbollah threats amid success on other fronts
Hezbollah in Lebanon continued to carry out attacks against Israel, even as Israel has sought a diplomatic solution via mediation from countries including the US and France. The IDF said on Tuesday that...
January 30, 2024
Iranian reactions to the Islamic State’s suicide bombings in Kerman
On the anniversary of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Lt. General Qassaem Soleimani’s death on January 3rd, 2024, two explosions occurred in proximity of the Kerman Martyrs...
January 29, 2024
U.S. Approves F-16 Sales to Turkey
The Biden administration approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey on January 26 after Ankara ratified Sweden’s bid to join NATO. The State Department notified Congress that...
January 29, 2024
Iran Bolsters Missile Capacity With Satellite Launches
Iran announced on January 28 that it successfully launched into space three satellites that use technology similar to that of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The achievement...
January 29, 2024
U.S. Funding to UNRWA Still Flowing
The United States will continue to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) despite announcing a temporary pause in funding, according to a January 27 report. In light...
January 29, 2024
Up to 40 Percent of Hamas Terror Tunnels in Gaza Damaged or Destroyed
Israel has damaged or rendered inoperable 20 to 40 percent of the Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza, The Wall Street Journal reported on January 28, citing U.S. and Israeli officials....
January 29, 2024
Israel SitRep: Jan. 29, 2024
Today’s Issue: New York Times and Wall Street Journal Report UNRWA Employees Participated in October 7 Attacks | IDF Soldier Wounded in Vehicular Attack in Northern Israel, Stabbing Foiled in West Bank...
January 29, 2024
Don’t Punish Israeli Athletes for Receiving Death Threats
Instead of protecting Israeli athletes facing threats of violence, some sporting bodies have rewarded terrorism by banning Israeli competitors, often while insisting the exclusion is for the athletes’...
January 29, 2024
The drone wars of Iran’s militias are becoming more deadly
Over the last decade, Iran has been increasingly exporting drones to its proxies throughout the Middle East. The drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are playing a gradually larger role in Iran’s...
January 29, 2024
Jordan in spotlight over killing of US service members
The Iranian-backed killing of three American service members in Jordan has brought a spotlight on northeast Jordan and the US role in the Jordan-Syria-Iraq border region. Iran denied any involvement...
January 29, 2024
Israel: Discussion of Hostage Crisis ‘Constructive,’ But ‘Significant Gaps’ Remain
The Israeli prime minister’s office said it deemed “constructive” a meeting on January 28 with Qatari, Egyptian, and U.S. delegates aimed at recovering Gaza hostages. The one-day...
January 29, 2024
IDF consolidates gains in Khan Younis
The Israel Defense Forces have degraded Hamas battalions in the southern city of Khan Younis, a process that has taken two months of complex fighting. The IDF’s 98th division has spearheaded this...
January 28, 2024
President Joe Biden’s got blood on hands after appeasing Iran for years
President Joe Biden has rewarded the ayatollah $100 billion — including revenue from the non-enforcement of US oil sanctions over three years, a $6 billion ransom payment and a $10 billion sanctions...
January 28, 2024
Iran-Backed Drone Attack Kills Three U.S. Servicemembers in Jordan
An Iran-backed drone attack killed three U.S. servicemembers and injured 25 others in Jordan on January 28. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a...
January 28, 2024
Iran’s Judiciary Poised to Gouge Out Eye of Protestor as Executions Surge
A jailed Iranian has begun a hunger strike to protest Tehran’s plan to gouge out his left eye as a punishment for allegedly blinding a policeman during a 2017 protest. Iran’s...
January 28, 2024
Iran escalates proxy war with US in killing of American service members
Three American service members were killed on Saturday in a drone attack in Jordan, the White House said in a statement. The soldiers were killed near the Syrian border. The US is continuing to gather...
January 28, 2024
Three U.S. service members in Jordan killed by Iran-backed militias
Iran-backed militias killed three U.S. service members and injured 25 in a drone attack on a base in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border. It’s the single worst incident of deaths and injuries of...
January 27, 2024
Israel Demands Qatari Action on Hostages
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded on January 27 that Qatar do more to secure the release of hostages held by its client, Hamas, in Gaza. In a televised news conference,...
January 27, 2024
New tools of war: How the IDF uses drones to fight Hamas in Gaza
An officer in Israel’s 14th Armored Reserve Brigade recalls October 7. As for many Israelis, that day has become a defining line between the past and the present. The officer, whose full...
January 26, 2024
U.S. Pauses Funding to UNRWA
The State Department announced on January 26 that it will temporarily pause funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The aid may resume pending the results...
January 26, 2024
China Urges Iran to Halt Houthi Attacks in Red Sea
China urged Iran to pressure the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to end their attacks against Red Sea commercial shipping, Iranian sources told Reuters in a January 25 report....
January 26, 2024
ICJ Rejects Gaza Ceasefire Demand, Urges Hostages Released
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 26 issued a provisional order that rejected South Africa’s request to order Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza....
January 26, 2024
Ronald Reagan Would Never Betray Ukraine
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January 26, 2024
Civil Case Against Halkbank Dismissed by Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on January 8 denied a civil petition brought against Halkbank, a Turkish state-owned public lender accused of facilitating Iranian sanctions busting. Despite the petition’s dismissal,...
January 26, 2024
10 Things to Know About the Houthis
The Houthis are an Iran-backed, Shiite Islamist movement that seized control of Yemen’s capital in 2014 and instigated civil war. Driven by an explicitly antisemitic and anti-American ethos, the Houthis...
January 26, 2024
Israel: Hamas Terrorists Base Operations from Southern Gaza Hospitals
Hamas terrorists are operating from inside two hospitals in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on January 26. The facilities include the...
January 26, 2024
Israel seeks to secure borders amid multi-front conflict
A key priority for Israel in the wake of October 7 has been re-establishing security along its border with Gaza. When Hezbollah began attacks against Israel on October 8, the issue of border security in...
January 26, 2024
Houthis attack U.S. warship, strike British tanker
The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen continue to launch strikes against U.S. warships and commercial vessels in the Red Sea, Bab Al Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden despite American and British efforts...
January 25, 2024
Freed Israeli Hostage Says She Met Hamas Leader in Captivity
A freed Israeli hostage revealed on January 24 that she met with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar twice while in Hamas captivity. Adina Moshe, a 72-year-old resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz,...
January 25, 2024
Turkey’s Parliament Ratifies Sweden’s NATO Application
Turkey’s parliament decided by a vote of 287-55 on Tuesday to ratify Sweden’s accession to NATO. Ankara had been holding up the Swedish application for 20 months, hoping to leverage it to extract concessions...
January 25, 2024
Israel Increases Pressure on Hamas Terrorists in Khan Younis
The Israeli military said on January 24 it is “increasing the pressure” on Hamas in the terror stronghold of Khan Younis as operations in southern Gaza continued. The Israel...
January 25, 2024
Israel SitRep: Jan. 25, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF Conducts West Bank Counter-Terror Operations, Arrests Wanted Men, Seizes Weapons | In Southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, IDF Forces Find Weapons, Kill ‘Dozens of Terrorists’ | IDF...
January 25, 2024
Moscow seeks to exploit Houthi attacks
Russian state media on Wednesday highlighted Houthi attacks on the US, and it seems that Moscow is seeking to exploit the tensions in the Red Sea. The Houthis have carried out attacks...
January 25, 2024
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah vows to continue fight against US
The US on Wednesday carried out airstrikes against Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah, which says it will continue to fight until the US leaves Iraq, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported. The Iraqi...
January 25, 2024
Israeli strikes in Lebanon deepen after Hezbollah drone attack
The Israel Defense Forces carried out strikes deeper than usual inside Lebanon following a Hezbollah drones attack on Israel on January 25. One Hezbollah UAV fell near Kfar Blum in northern Israel, southeast...
January 25, 2024
The Missing Middle
January 24, 2024
Turkish and Iranian Presidents Meet and Condemn Israel
The presidents of Iran and Turkey condemned Israel’s actions against Hamas during a January 24 meeting in Ankara. In a news conference after his conversation with Iran’s Ebrahim...
January 24, 2024
U.S. Strikes Iranian-Backed Group in Response to Attacks in Iraq
U.S. forces carried out airstrikes on Kataib Hezbollah on January 24 in response to the Iranian-backed group’s targeting of American troops in Iraq. Kataib Hezbollah conducted...
January 24, 2024
Cut funding to organizations that are empowering Hamas
As Congress mulls its next moves on big federal spending bills, members of both political parties are refusing to confront an elephant in the room: Billions of taxpayer dollars are being sent to international...
January 24, 2024
Why Iran Doesn’t Want U.S. Forces Out of Iraq
In response to a Kataib Hezbollah attack Saturday on Ain Al-Asad Airbase that houses Iraqi and American troops, U.S. fighter jets on Wednesday bombed three facilities used by Iranian-backed...
January 24, 2024
Cairo Warns Against Israeli Operation on Egypt-Gaza Border
Cairo warned Jerusalem on January 22 that an Israeli operation along Egypt’s border with Gaza would present a “serious threat” to Egypt-Israel relations and cross a “red...
January 24, 2024
No better enemy
Seven years ago this month, then-Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that the $150 billion in sanctions relief the Obama administration was providing Iran’s rulers would – to a greater or lesser...
January 24, 2024
Comparing Gaza with Mosul
When the war broke out in Gaza, observers made a number of comparisons to the challenges faced by the US-backed anti-ISIS coalition in the battle of Mosul. I was in northern Iraq when it began in October...
January 24, 2024
Unprecedented calm along border amidst reduction in rocket fire from Gaza
Israel has seen a significant reduction in rocket fire from Hamas and other terrorist groups inside Gaza over a 72-hour period. Sirens sounded on the border of Gaza on January 21 in the afternoon, but...
January 23, 2024
Sanction the Hamas nongovernmental organization in Turkey
The United States government has intensified its efforts to counter Hamas worldwide. Recently, that has included sanctions on entities based in Turkey. The focus is warranted. The government in Ankara...
January 23, 2024
U.S., UK Forces Bomb Houthis’ Advanced Weapons
U.S. and UK forces on January 22 carried out airstrikes against targets in Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. The strikes aimed to degrade the Iran-backed group’s ability to...
January 23, 2024
Egypt Claims It Destroyed Hamas Tunnels, But Smuggling Continues
Israeli claims that terrorists are using cross-border tunnels between Egypt and Gaza to smuggle weapons into the strip are “baseless,” an Egyptian official said on January 23....
January 23, 2024
24 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza
Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Gaza on January 22. An attack by Palestinian terrorists caused an explosion, collapsing two buildings with soldiers inside them and killing 21. ...
January 23, 2024
Beijing’s Economic Challenges Present Opportunities for Washington
China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported last week that the country’s economy grew by just 5.2 percent in 2023, with the World Bank forecasting that China’s growth rate could slow even...
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