Tehran Upholds Brutal Punishment: The amputation of thieves’ hands as a judicial penalty reflects the divine will, said Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the chief of Iran’s judiciary,...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem delivered two speeches—one on November 29 and another on December 5— after the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that took effect on November 27. Most...
Naim Qassem’s second speech as secretary-general of Hezbollah, delivered on November 6, was as predictable in content as timing. It came, as is the group’s custom, to commemorate 40 days since the...
The suspect, an illegal immigrant, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The victim was headed to synagogue.
Iran has preferred to keep the retaliation cycle going by continuing to claim it has an open account with Israel and could carry out new attacks.
One day after his surprise appointment as Hezbollah’s new secretary-general, Naim Qassem delivered his inaugural speech from that post—his fourth speech since Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination. Qassem’s...
Iran likely believes Israel’s campaign will shift from high intensity to low intensity as it did in Gaza.
Naim Qassem, newly appointed as Hezbollah’s secretary-general, has become the centerpiece of the group’s narrative efforts. On October 15, as then-deputy secretary-general, he gave his third speech...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published captured documents on October 23 indicating that six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza are members of either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The IDF has...
These were Israeli army reservists who have served for most of the past year in the war against Hamas. They were also among Israel’s elite commandos.
With Israel’s September 27 assassination of Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s voice has been subdued. But it has not, unfortunately, been entirely silenced. The mantle of Hezbollah’s...
The Qatar-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashal said that the Iran-backed terrorist organization would rise “like a phoenix” despite heavy losses after a year of fighting Israel in...
On September 27, the unimaginable happened. At approximately 5:22 p.m. local time, reports emerged of a massive Israeli strike on the predominantly Shia southern suburbs of Beirut, known colloquially as...
The leader of Hamas in Lebanon, who doubled up as a prominent educator employed by UNRWA — the UN agency solely dedicated to the descendants of Palestinian refugees — was killed...
In a statement released online, two Iranian-backed Bahraini militias eulogized killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah while also promising to take revenge against the “criminal Zionists” for his...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that it eliminated Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, along with commander Ali Karaki, in a Beirut airstrike the previous day. “The...
In my first analysis and opinion piece on the so-called Axis of Resistance, I set the scene by describing Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current challenge to...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was likely expecting a relatively quiet week. In fact, he wasn’t planning on speaking until October 7, the anniversary of the murderous rampage launched against...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out a successful airstrike in Beirut on September 20, targeting a meeting involving senior Hezbollah member Ibrahim Aqil and commanders of the...
A female Israeli soldier has been killed in combat in Gaza, the first since the war began 11 months ago, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on September 18. In addition to...