Following a lethal Iranian ballistic missile strike in Haifa, Israel announced on April 6 a plan to partner with a U.S.-based manufacturer to accelerate production of Arrow missile defense interceptors....
The “great, proud people of Iran” are not among them
Israel has been systematically striking key Iranian facilities that support or could support the development of chemical weapons. In its latest sorties, on April 7, Israel struck the...
The renewed Lebanon war between Israel and Hezbollah that began on March 2 is now over a month old, with little change in the overall picture or disposition of the main actors. However, Israeli officials...
Holy Week in the Holy Land began with online hysteria. After Catholic Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and three prelates were wrongly denied access to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre...
Nobody expects the Spanish imposition. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to close Spanish airspace to U.S. military flights targeting Iran will hamper U.S. war planning. Sanchez’s defiance might...
On the morning of Saturday, March 28, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted a press-marked vehicle on the Jezzine-Kfarhouna road in south Lebanon. The strike killed Ali Shuaib, an employee of the...
Following US and Israeli strikes since June 2025, Iran’s enriched uranium is one of the last viable components of its nuclear program.
As the military campaign against Iran continues, Israeli leaders are moving to build greater domestic munition production capacity. Israel’s Ministry of Defense (IMOD) declared “munitions independence”...
Lebanon has made its choice. Instead of enforcing UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and its own cabinet’s decision to disarm Hezbollah, Beirut will allow the pro-Iran militia to keep its weapons but...
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan did not mince words as he toured the Middle East as the war in the region escalated: “It should be especially noted that the primary responsible party...
Spain formally withdrew its ambassador from Israel on March 11. The announcement, published in the Boletin Oficial del Estado, terminated the appointment of Ana Maria Salomon Perez, downgrading Madrid’s...
Syrian forces may be returning to Lebanon more than twenty years after Damascus withdrew its military from its smaller neighbor’s territory. Reuters reported on March 17 that the...
This conflict could finally free Beirut from Hezbollah
On March 13, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem gave his second speech since the renewal of Hezbollah’s war with Israel on March 2. The speech marked the anniversary of Qods Day, an event...
The Trump administration made history on November 24, 2025, when it issued an executive order calling for the U.S. government to designate “certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist...
Now that Lebanon and Israel’s interests are so clearly aligned in disarming Hezbollah, the time has come for the two states to cooperate toward this shared goal and lay the groundwork for peace. On...
From March 14 to 16, US and Israeli operations continued targeting key elements of the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities, including missile infrastructure, naval command sites, and facilities...
The Iran war is full of surprises. The United Nations Security Council, often a hostile arena for Israel, condemned Tehran — not Washington and Jerusalem — on March 11 for Iran’s war conduct,...