The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed terrorism, murder conspiracy, and sanctions evasion charges against six Hamas leaders on September 3 in connection with the Iran-backed...
NATO member Turkey hosted a conference on August 28 that featured Hamas leader Khaled Mashal’s call for Palestinians to conduct suicide attacks targeting Israelis. “We want to...
Iran conducted its first public execution of the year on August 26, hanging Amirreza Ajam Akrami, a man in his early 20s, for killing a lawyer. His death comes as weekly hunger strikes...
Israel is leveraging the current war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and its Iranian-led allies to carry out a campaign of targeted eliminations against entities involved in terrorist activities in the West...
Hezbollah fails to hit ‘strategic’ target Israeli media identify as Mossad and IDF military intelligence HQ
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani is expected to visit Iran for talks “in the coming days,” Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported on August 22. According...
On July 12, at the NATO summit in Washington, Turkey threatened to take steps to exclude Israel from all cooperation with NATO. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that “until comprehensive,...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed from the Middle East empty-handed on August 20, having failed to secure an agreement after Hamas rejected the latest iteration of...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is escalating its campaign of repression against political dissidents, denying medical care to prisoners in need of treatment, the Center for Human...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated five terrorists, including a wanted senior member of Hamas, in two separate counter-terrorism operations on August 14. In a statement published...
If Hezbollah mounts a significant attack, Israel should declare war and establish a fully demilitarized zone between the border and the Litani River.
Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Istanbul on August 3 to express their anger over the death of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31. Emboldened by President...
Iran executed at least 36 prisoners in the space of 24 hours, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) reported on August 7. According to the Norway-based nonprofit...
The United States charged a Pakistani national with a thwarted Iran-backed plot to assassinate American government officials, the U.S. Justice Department disclosed on August 6. The...
Mourners gathered in Doha, Qatar, on August 2 to pay their respects to Hamas’s late political chief, Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh died in a presumed Israeli hit on his guesthouse in...
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz summoned the deputy ambassador of Turkey for a severe reprimand on August 2, after the Turkish flag at the country’s embassy in Tel Aviv was...
Under the brutally authoritarian rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, its diehard Islamist president, it has stood out as the alliance’s greatest liability.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spent the final hours before his assassination in a Tehran safehouse that belongs to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on August 1 that a July 13 airstrike had successfully killed Hamas’ military commander, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim...
Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory...