Hamas

October 14, 2026 | Jacob Breach |

Bogus Bylines: AI Lets One Iran-Origin Operation Run the Full Influence Playbook

Seven self-described Western journalists, none of whom exist, have placed nearly 100 articles in online outlets since July 2025. On October 8, OpenAI disclosed that it had banned ChatGPT accounts originating...

October 14, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanon’s False Claims of Disarming Hezbollah

A seemingly routine traffic mishap in Lebanon on Friday exposed the Lebanese government as either unwilling or unable to disarm Hezbollah, even as it publicly pretends to have done so in line with the...

October 14, 2026 | Clifford D. May |

A most ignoble Nobel Peace Prize

Navi Pillay deserves denunciation, not accolades

October 13, 2026 | Ben Cohen, David May

Navi Pillay’s Undeserved Nobel Peace Prize

This year’s winner has a long history of blaming Israel for the world’s problems.

October 9, 2026 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Syria increases criticism of Israeli actions, continues diplomatic outreach

Syria sharpened its criticism of Israeli military operations in Syria during the first week of October, including the construction of a new fortified security line in southern Syria, east of the Israeli-occupied...

October 9, 2026 | Bill Roggio, David Daoud

Hezbollah’s miscalculation: Down but not out

October 9, 2026 | Will Selber |

Islamic State-linked suspects detained or charged in 6 countries since late September

Authorities in Georgia, North Macedonia, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Israel detained or indicted 51 Islamic State-linked suspects in eight separate cases between September 25 and October 8. The arrests...

October 8, 2026 | Ashley Rindsberg, Toby Dershowitz

Wikipedia’s Main Al Jazeera Editor Goes Dark

Wikipedia, originally intended to be the ultimate — and neutral — online source of all information, has descended into just one more place for geopolitical and ideological attacks. It is a platform...

October 7, 2026 | Ahmad Sharawi |

The Mecca Pact Won’t Deter Yemen’s Houthis

Less than two months after its signing, Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia activated the Mecca Pact for the first time. On October 5, during an emergency meeting held in Riyadh, the three countries...

October 7, 2026 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Saudi Arabia Needs a New Yemen Strategy to Defeat the Houthis

Israel’s formidable military and intelligence machines chewed up and spit out two of Iran’s most powerful regional proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah. Tehran’s militias in Iraq have proved far less capable...

October 6, 2026 | Ryan Wohl |

Treasury Sanctioned a Hamas Crowdfunding Network. Its French Front Should Be Next.

U.S. and French authorities have moved against a Hamas fundraising network that allegedly raised more than $600,000 from American donors. The harder task is keeping it from rebuilding. On October 2,...

October 2, 2026 | Will Selber |

US charges engineer with supporting Houthis, Louisiana brothers and Florida man with financing Hamas

Federal authorities in September charged defendants in three cases alleging support for the Houthis and Hamas. The cases accuse a Department of Energy engineer of attempting to aid the Houthis and two...

October 1, 2026 | Mark Dubowitz, Elliot Kaufman, Yonah Jeremy Bob

In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel’s Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis

September 29, 2026 | Samuel Ben-Ur |

Board of Peace unveils Gaza recovery plan, Israel reports 18 ceasefire violations Sept. 15–29

On September 23, the US-backed Board of Peace (BoP) unveiled a $2.45 billion, six-month Gaza recovery plan, but its implementation remains stalled by disagreements over Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s...

September 29, 2026 | Richard Goldberg, Ben Cohen

Don’t let our next UN secretary-general be a shill for China, Cuba and Hamas

Excerpt The race to choose the next U.N. secretary-general has yet to produce a clear frontrunner, but at least one candidate currently making headway should ring alarm bells in Washington. The most...

September 26, 2026 | Simone Rodan-Benzaquen |

The UN made racism against Jews acceptable.

Twenty-five years ago, Jews went to the “United Nations World Conference Against Racism” to fight racism. They left learning that Jew-hatred would be treated differently.

September 25, 2026 | Ben Cohen |

The UN is still obsessed with Israel

Antisemitism simmers within the world body, most notably these days in the actions and words of Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the “occupied Palestinian territories.”

September 24, 2026 | Sinan Ciddi, Isabella Bournas

Put Turkey on notice: The Eastern Mediterranean’s reliable alliance deserves US teeth

The ongoing war with Iran is driving countries in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean to invest in new security alliances. This is partly driven by the drubbing Gulf Arab states have taken from...

September 23, 2026 | Ahmad Sharawi |

The Mecca Pact Has Become a Hollow Promise

If these excuses hold in the pact’s first crisis, they will hold in the next.

September 23, 2026 | Simone Rodan-Benzaquen |

What the “Voice of Gaza” Chose Not to Tell the World 

In a wide-ranging interview lasting more than three hours with the Arabic-language podcast Taqarob, photographer Motaz Azaiza discussed his work in Gaza and what went on behind the scenes of local media coverage. His admissions about self-censorship, Hamas repression and the withholding of footage from October 7 challenge his image as the “perfect correspondent” and raise questions about the ethics of Western media.