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March 26, 2024
Iranian Rial’s Depreciation Persists Into Persian New Year
The Iranian rial struck a record low on March 24, trading at about 613,000 to the U.S. dollar in the unregulated market. Since January, the dollar has appreciated about 21 percent...
March 26, 2024
Senior Israeli Officials Cancel Upcoming Trip to Washington
Senior Israeli officials on March 25 canceled a planned trip to Washington after the United States abstained from a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution opposed by Israel. Jerusalem...
March 26, 2024
Israel Quits Doha Hostage Talks After Hamas Rejects Deal
Israel on March 26 withdrew its negotiators from Qatar-hosted talks on a potential Gaza truce after Hamas rejected a U.S.-proposed compromise. Mossad director David Barnea, who has...
March 26, 2024
Washington Denies a Bedrock of Warfighting
The Biden administration recently pressed Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries. Ukrainian strikes on refineries and tankers in the Black Sea have contributed to a rise in the global oil price,...
March 26, 2024
Israel Hits Hezbollah Deep in Lebanon
Israel carried out its longest-range attack on Hezbollah yet on March 26 after the Lebanese terrorist group launched missiles at a strategic northern base of the Israel Defense Forces...
March 26, 2024
Israel’s Minister of Defense in Washington for key meetings
Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant arrived in Washington for a multi-day visit for meetings with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of Defense Lloyd...
March 26, 2024
Cooperate or Compete? The Zero-Sum Game of AI Engagement with China
The United States and China have reportedly reached an agreement to extend the decades-long cooperative framework of the US-China Science and Technology Agreement. That recent move follows Biden...
March 26, 2024
Hezbollah claims it has six-fold increase in speed of weapons delivery
Hezbollah has increased the speed with which it can stockpile weapons, one of its senior officials told Al Mayadeen, a pro-Iranian news channel based in Beirut. This is important because Hezbollah...
March 26, 2024
Houthis boast of ‘advanced’ capabilities
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March 26, 2024
How did 500 terrorists return to Shifa Hospital?
Over the last week, the Israel Defense Forces have been carrying out a complex raid at Shifa Hospital. The hospital is a large, sprawling compound. The raid began a week ago, on the evening of March...
March 26, 2024
Iran believes Gaza war will ‘shape new world order’
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said the war in Gaza will lead to a “transformation in the unjust order that rules the world.” He made the claims at a gathering on Monday, according to Iran’s...
March 25, 2024
Israeli Defense Minister Visits Washington to Push for Expedited Military Aid
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant arrived in Washington this week, reportedly to request expedited shipments of weapon systems from the United States. The visit marks Gallant’s...
March 25, 2024
Terror Exposes Putin’s Broken Promise—And Worse Will Come
Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist violence in 2004. It exposed...
March 25, 2024
U.S. Abstains From Ceasefire Resolution at UN Security Council
The United States abstained from a resolution that the UN Security Council adopted on March 25 demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution, which the 10 non-permanent...
March 25, 2024
Israeli Forces Find ‘Large Amount of Military Equipment’ at Shifa Hospital
Israeli forces uncovered weapons hidden throughout Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 25. “The operation was launched after receiving...
March 25, 2024
U.S. Bans UNRWA Funding for One Year
President Joe Biden on March 23 signed into law a one-year ban on U.S. funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The measure, passed overwhelmingly by Congress...
March 25, 2024
Hamas Shells Ashdod, First Since January
Hamas launched rockets at Ashdod on March 25, in the first such attack against the Israeli city from Gaza in 10 weeks. The eight rockets fired from the central Gaza Strip set off...
March 25, 2024
Serbia and Russia want to refight Kosovo, this time with disinformation
Excerpt Yesterday, marked the 25th anniversary of NATO’s intervention against Serbia in 1999 to halt the human rights abuses perpetrated against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo. Today,...
March 25, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 25, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 25, 2024 Today’s Issue: IDF Spokesman: Shifa Hospital Operation “One of the Most Successful Operations” Since Start of War | At Shifa Hospital, IDF Has Arrested Some 500 Hamas...
March 25, 2024
Hamas launches rockets at major Israeli cities
For the first time in two months, rockets were fired from Gaza at Ashdod and Ashkelon, two coastal Israeli cities south of Tel Aviv which were the major targets of hundreds of rocket attacks...
March 25, 2024
Bring them home . . . or not — Biden just sold out Israeli hostages at the United Nations
President Biden cleared the way Monday for the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding Israel suspend its counterterrorism operations in Gaza without conditioning any...
March 25, 2024
United States Cyber Force
March 24, 2024
Palestinian Sniper Kills Israeli Soldier in West Bank
A Palestinian sniper killed an Israeli soldier and wounded seven others in a West Bank ambush on March 22. According to Palestinian media, the Palestinian terrorist Mujahid Barakat...
March 22, 2024
Congress Is Right to Call for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok
The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing...
March 22, 2024
Russia, China Veto Ceasefire Resolution at UN
Latest Developments Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on March 22 calling for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, the release of remaining hostages, and a halt to Houthi attacks in the...
March 22, 2024
Battle of Avdiivka: A Preliminary Analysis
This article offers a preliminary analysis of the Battle of Avdiivka, particularly its final weeks. While more information will no doubt come to light as time passes, some initial conclusions stand out....
March 22, 2024
Israel Arrests Man Planning Suicide Attack
Israeli police said on March 21 that they arrested a Palestinian man in the West Bank who intended to carry out a suicide attack. According to law enforcement officials, an undercover...
March 22, 2024
Houthi Missile Strikes Israeli Soil for First Time
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen struck Israel with a cruise missile on March 18 for the first time. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on March 19 that the Israeli Air Force...
March 22, 2024
Poll: Hamas Remains Popular Among Palestinians
Palestinian support for Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza remains high, according to a Palestinian poll released on March 20. That support has increased since the Iran-backed terrorist...
March 22, 2024
IDF Raid on Gaza Hospital Captures Largest Number of Terrorists Since War Began
Latest Developments The Israeli military captured 650 suspects, 358 of whom are Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, in a raid on Shifa Hospital, said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and...
March 22, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 22, 2024
Today’s Issue: Shifa Hospital Raid: More Than 500 Arrested, including Senior Hamas and PIJ Officials | IDF Continues “Targeted Fighting” at Shifa Hospital, Operations Ongoing Elsewhere in Gaza |...
March 22, 2024
Ukraine Needs More Drones. Here’s One Way Washington Can Help.
Ukraine could double its annual production of drones if it had more funding, a Ukrainian official told The Guardian in an interview published on Wednesday. In addition to encouraging our European allies...
March 21, 2024
Looking into Kfar Aza, five months after the October 7 massacre
On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Hamas terrorists breached the fence at Kfar Aza that runs around the community. It is one of the closest Israeli communities to the Gaza Strip, and the...
March 21, 2024
Egypt hosts Blinken and key Arab foreign ministers
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Thursday for an important meeting. The Egyptian foreign ministry spotlighted the “expanded bilateral consultations”...
March 21, 2024
Jordan commemorates battle of Karameh against Israeli forces, echoing today’s war
On March 21, 1968, the Battle of Karameh took place in Jordan, pitting Israeli forces against a combined force of Palestinian fighters and Jordanian soldiers. Because the name for the site of the battle...
March 21, 2024
Al Jazeera should report, not inflame, the Gaza war
The Qatar-owned channel Al Jazeera has unjustifiably become part of the Gaza war story. In January, two Al Jazeera reporters, Hamzah Dahdouh and Mustafa Thurayya, were killed in the war. On Monday,...
March 21, 2024
Iran-backed Iraqi terrorists claim to target Israeli power plant
The Iranian pro-government Tasnim news media claimed that the “Islamic Resistance of Iraq announced that in support of the people of Gaza…it targeted the power plant of the Zionist regime in ‘Tel...
March 21, 2024
Despite Deadly Stabbing, Hopeful Signs for Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel
Israeli soldier Uri Moyal’s visit to a café in southern Israel last Thursday ended up being his last. While Moyal waited in line, Fadi Abu Altayef, from the nearby Bedouin city of Rahat, fatally stabbed the...
March 21, 2024
IDF: Hezbollah Stores Weapons in Lebanese Civilian Areas
Hezbollah is storing weapons, including explosives, in Lebanese civilian areas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 20. The Israeli military released footage of an explosion...
March 21, 2024
The Growing List of Al Jazeera Terrorists
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) arrested Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul on Monday during a firefight with terrorists at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital. The Qatari television channel immediately...
March 21, 2024
How Turkey’s opposition media empowers Erdoğan
Complicity in perpetuating authoritarian rule has many faces. Undemocratic governance is propped up by politicians and big businesses as well as a complacent media ecosystem and...
March 20, 2024
U.S. Accuses Niger of Iran Uranium Deal
Niger may end counterterrorism cooperation with America over U.S. accusations that Niger’s ruling junta is negotiating a deal to sell uranium to Iran, reported The Wall Street...
March 20, 2024
Canada Bans Arms Exports to Israel
Ottawa plans to halt all arms exports to Israel pursuant to a non-binding parliamentary motion passed on March 19, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told the Toronto...
March 20, 2024
Israel Eliminates Key Hamas Terrorist Commanders in Rafah
An Israeli airstrike killed five senior Hamas commanders in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 20. The fatalities included Nidal Aleed,...
March 20, 2024
Triple Murder Organizer Nabbed in Gaza Hospital
Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital captured a Hamas terrorist who helped plan a triple murder that sparked the 2014 war, the Shin Bet said on March 20....
March 20, 2024
Reported US-Iran Talks Explain Saudi Sitting Out Red Sea Operations
Wafic Safa, a top Hezbollah official, is on an unprecedented visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country that classifies the Iran-backed Lebanese militia as a terrorist organization. The...
March 20, 2024
Khamenei’s Strategy to Dominate the Middle East Will Outlive Him
Earlier this month, Iran conducted elections for its parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a body of elderly clerics nominally responsible for choosing the next supreme leader. The massive disqualification...
March 20, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 20, 2024
Today’s Issue: In Shifa Hospital Raid, IDF Kills Dozens, Arrests More Than 300, Finds Weapons | IDF Completes Raids in Southern Gaza’s Hamad Town | IDF Establishes Team to Locate West Bank Terror Tunnels,...
March 20, 2024
Attack TikTok
Starting in the 1920s, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pioneered the art of dezinformatsiya. A hundred years later, the Communist Party of China has developed disinformation into...
March 19, 2024
Israeli, U.S. Officials to Meet in Washington to Discuss Rafah Operation
Latest Developments The White House said on March 18 that Israel is sending an interagency team to Washington to hear alternative U.S. ideas to supplant a major military operation in Rafah. President...
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