Latakia

October 22, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Lebanon’s Airport to Fund Terrorism; The World Must Respond

The Lebanese government has a choice to make — reclaim effective control of its main international airport from Hezbollah, or see that air hub destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. As government ministers...

December 6, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s ‘Commercial’ Airline Sector Continues to flout U.S. Sanctions

The record is clear: Iran uses murder as a weapon of statecraft — and it does so, in part, via its commercial aviation sector, which Tehran has suborned to its goals of exporting revolution and sowing...

March 29, 2023 | David Adesnik |

Under Pressure from Congress, Administration Sanctions Syrian Narco-traffickers

The Treasury Department announced sanctions on Tuesday on eight targets for “supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the production or export of Captagon, a dangerous amphetamine.”...

December 1, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Quiet War between Israel and Iran

Iran's Hegemonic Drive

October 22, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Time to Sanction Iranian Pilots

Last month, the Biden administration added four Iranian cargo planes to its U.S. Department of Commerce blacklist of aircraft involved in export control violations. Among the aircraft is a Boeing 747...

September 22, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How Hezbollah Collaborates With Latin American Drug Cartels

Plus, an explanation of "black cocaine" and why authorities should worry about charcoal exports.

April 17, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

State Department Report Highlights World’s Deadliest Weapons

Potential nuclear tests in China, a whole list of problems with Russia, and let's not forget North Korea and Iran.

May 20, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Assad’s forces battle jihadists for key terrain in Latakia

For more than a week, forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have attempted to capture Kabani, a key location in the coastal Latakia province. Assad’s men have met stiff resistance from jihadists in the ar...

May 6, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda-linked operations room counterattacks as bombs fall in northern Syria

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March 2, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Trump Should Block Iran’s Air Corridor to Syria

Last month, an Iranian drone reportedly violated Israeli airspace after taking off from a base i...

August 16, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer |

‘Iran Building Missile Factory In Syria’

Syria’s Baniyas on the Mediterranean sea between Latakia and Tartus is the site of a large oil refinery. Before the civil war broke out in 2011 travel guides suggested tourists visit the Cr...

August 16, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: Iran And Russia Violated UN Weapons Sanctions

The Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia used a smuggling route to transport offensive weapons, allegedly in violation of UN Resolution 2231, Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on...

July 28, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Trump Got This One Right

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump was shown a disturbing video of Syrian rebels beheading a child near the city of Aleppo. It had caused a minor stir in the press as the fighters belonged...

May 1, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Syria: Options Remain If America is Willing to Take Them

One of the biggest foreign policy challenges that President-elect Donald Trump will face is Syria. Here are how things look on the ground today and some of the scenarios the new American presiden...

February 13, 2017 | Oren Kessler |

Egypt Picks Sides in the Syrian War

On February 1, a military transport plane left a Russian airbase in Latakia, Syria, landed at an airfield...

September 14, 2016 | John Hannah |

Russia’s Middle East Offensive

Even before Russian bombers launched strikes into Syria from an Iranian air base last month, it was clear that one of President Barack Obama’s more dubious foreign policy legacies would be...

July 5, 2016 | Tony Badran |

Why Bibi’s Visits to Moscow Mean Bad News for Israel

Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Russia for yet another meeting with president Vladimir Putin—his third such trip (and fourth meeti...

February 4, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Flying in the Face of U.S. Sanctions

Mahan Air is an Iranian passenger airline that also happens to be a favorite with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC uses Mahan planes to ferry weapons and personnel...

December 21, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How To Change The Game

With Royal Air Force Tornados and Typhoons finally taking to the Syrian skies alongside  French Mirages and Rafales, and President Obama addressing the nation on America’s role in the...

October 23, 2015 | |

The IRGC’s New Deployment Pattern

The October 7th death of Brigadier-General Hossein Hamedani, the most senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander killed in the Syrian war, underlines Iran’s growing military...