Levant

June 27, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Hezbollah’s Missiles And Growing Military Might Are A True Threat

Unpacking the Capability Behind Hezbollah’s Threat to Expand its War: Less than a day after U.S. Special Envoy Amos Hochstein was in Beirut to again meet with Lebanese officials to press for...

May 15, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

US built floating pier off Gaza could be operational in ‘days’

The pier was completed last week, and USAID Response Director says that in the coming day, they expect it to be affixed to the shore, and aid can then flow.

April 10, 2024 | David Daoud |

Hezbollah’s expected Response to IRGC-QF Gen. Mohammad Zahedi’s killing

According to the Syrian Army, at 17:00 hours on April 1, Israel launched an airborne attack from over the Golan Heights, targeting a building in Damascus that it described as the Iranian consulate...

April 2, 2024 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Iran Is Winning the War

Right now things look good for Israel. But the Islamic Republic is playing the long game. And its advantages, alas, are many.

November 3, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Iran’s Ever-Expanding Ring of Fire

Distance does not buy security. Over 1,000 kilometers away from the Jewish State, Yemen’s Houthi rebels or Ansar Allah – the helpers of God – as they style themselves, have made good on...

November 2, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Exposing Iran’s Proxy Gambit One Proxy At A Time

As Israeli ground forces expand operations in Gaza, Iran’s proxies are steadily ramping up their military involvement. At the heart of their strategy — or more aptly, Tehran’s — is the...

October 18, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Eyeless in Gaza

How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon

October 12, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Was Biden’s Speech as Pro-Israel as You Think?

No. Because it was missing the only word that matters.

September 6, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Biden Backdoors Israel in the U.N., Rescinding Trump’s Recognition of Sovereignty over the Golan

In a move from the Obama playbook, the U.S. is advancing a stealth agenda in the Middle East at the expense of its allies

August 1, 2023 | Tony Badran |

In Lebanon, Israel and America Are on Opposite Sides

Israel backpedals, while Hezbollah grows bolder

May 22, 2023 | Tony Badran |

The New Saudi State Sets Off Into Uncharted Geopolitical Waters

Far from being uncooperative, Saudi Arabia under MBS is playing precisely the regional role that Obama and Biden have long demanded—only more so

May 3, 2023 | Tony Badran |

The New Herodians

Herod the Great’s alignment with the Roman empire led to both the high-point of Jewish power and the destruction of the Jewish state.

April 13, 2023 | Bill Roggio, Caleb Weiss

U.S. adds Al Qaeda leader in Syria to list of global terrorists

The U.S. State Department added Sami al-Uraydi, a senior leader of Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. State’s Rewards for Justice program previously offered...

March 8, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Blinken Builds a Palestinian Hezbollah in the West Bank

Not content with fueling street demonstrations against Bibi in Tel Aviv, the Biden administration looks to ‘Lebanonize’ Israel with a new, U.S.-funded terror army

February 28, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Rob Malley visits the Gulf, with a bucket of old formaldehyde

A senior US delegation, led by Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley and other counterterrorism and defense officials, traveled to Saudi Arabia recently to participate in the US-Gulf Cooperation Council...

February 15, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Arsenal

Assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program

February 14, 2023 | Tony Badran |

America’s military exercise with Israel betrays its true plans

What are we to make of Juniper Oak, the latest and largest-ever joint military exercise held by the US and Israeli militaries in late January, as part of the longstanding Juniper series? Based on the...

February 10, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow |

Captagon: Assad’s Deadly Drug Of Choice Expands To Israel

Israel’s Ministry of Defense thwarted an attempt to smuggle thousands of captagon tablets into the Gaza Strip last week. The news was overshadowed by soaring tensions, amidst continued unrest in the...

February 8, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Hezekiah’s Mistake

As Netanyahu tries to manage relations with a fracturing American empire, he would do well to read Isaiah

December 19, 2022 | Sinan Ciddi, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Will Turkey Pay a Price for Helping Iran Break Sanctions?

So long as Turkey continues to enable adversaries like Iran to evade American sanctions, it will be an ally in name only.