Mediterranean Sea

December 28, 2023 | Joe Truzman, Bill Roggio

Network of Iraqi militias claim responsibility for attack in Israel

The “Islamic Resistance in Iraq,” a network of Iranian proxies, front groups, and other pro-Iranian actors claimed responsibility for attacking an undisclosed target in the southern Golan...

November 21, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel considers Gaza ceasefire as Hezbollah expands attacks

Israel considered a ceasefire with Hamas on Tuesday evening, November 21. The multi-day ceasefire is mediated via Qatar and reportedly includes fifty or more hostages being freed in exchange for Israel...

November 13, 2023 | Andrea Stricker |

Prevent the Gaza Conflict From Turning Into a Regional Conflagration  

President Joe Biden and his administration must not remember the past, because they’re repeating it. ...

November 8, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Hamas vs. Western Civ

Gaza is a significant battleground

November 6, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

The Ground War in Gaza Begins

The week of fighting on the ground that began on Saturday, October 27 was tough. There were Israeli military casualties and Gazan civilian casualties. The worst incident for Israel came when a Namer...

November 4, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Hezbollah Two-Step

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah broke his month-long silence on Friday, delivering a much-anticipated address on the war in Gaza. There was a chance he might use the platform to...

October 18, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz |

How Palestinian Terrorists Yet Again Killed Palestinians, Lied to the Media

Israel once again stands falsely accused of killing Palestinian civilians, this time by bombing a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. However, the responsibility lies with a misfired rocket launched by the terrorist...

June 2, 2023 | |

Hezbollah Linked to Murder of Irish Peacekeeper in Lebanon

A Lebanese judge investigating the December 2022 killing of an Irish peacekeeper serving in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) filed an indictment on June 2 against five of the perpetrators...

May 22, 2023 | |

IRGC Turning Commercial Ships Into “Floating Terror Bases”

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been covertly converting commercial ships into launch platforms for missiles, drones, and commando raids, Israel disclosed on May...

May 10, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Iran’s Multifront Strategy Against Israel

The war after the ‘campaign between wars’ could soon erupt

May 3, 2023 | |

Islamic Jihad Attacks Israel from Gaza with Hamas’ Assent

Palestinian terrorists launched more than 100 rockets and mortar bombs at Israel from the Gaza Strip on May 2 and early May 3 with the assent of the territory’s ruling Hamas faction....

December 20, 2022 | |

Death of UNIFIL Soldier Reflects Hezbollah’s Continuing Impunity in Lebanon

Latest Developments  An angry mob near the Lebanese village of Al-Aqbieh shot and killed an Irish soldier serving in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on December 14. A UNIFIL force of two armored...

September 23, 2022 | |

Israel, Lebanon Near Agreement on Mediterranean Gas Field

Two years of U.S.-mediated negotiations on demarcating a maritime border between Israel and Lebanon appear to be reaching a conclusion, with senior envoys meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week. In 2020, the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government claimed rights to Karish, an Israeli gas field located in the Mediterranean Sea. This insistence constituted a negotiating tactic aimed at compelling Jerusalem to make territorial concessions on the entirety of the disputed maritime area, including Qana, a prospective gas field that lies within both Lebanese and Israeli waters.

August 14, 2022 | Mark Dubowitz, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Why Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rockets Kill So Many Palestinians

Roughly 200 Gaza rockets misfired in the recent conflict, killing at least 15 civilians. So why are Islamic Jihad’s projectiles so fatally unreliable? And what are Iran’s plans for its proxy?

June 1, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Hamas as Tehran’s Agent

Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been plying the Hamas terrorist group with cash and weapons while also teaching it how to be self-sufficient. With hundreds of millions of dollars...

June 30, 2021 | David May |

Palestinian Organizations at the United Nations

May 25, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Jared Thompson, Ryan Brobst

Egypt’s transition away from American weapons is a national security issue

Egypt announced an agreement this month with France to purchase 30 French-made F3-R Rafale fighter jets in a deal reportedly worth $5 billion. The agreement is part of a larger trend in which Egypt...

May 14, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Joe Truzman

Tehran’s Terror Proxies in Gaza Escalate Attacks on Israeli Civilians

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have targeted Israeli civilians with a greater volume of rocket fire this week than in previous rounds of conflict. A closer analysis shows why the two terror groups’...

April 10, 2021 | Jacob Nagel, Jonathan Schanzer

A Closer Look at Israel’s New High-Tech Barrier

Israel reported significant progress last month on an underground fence around the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Officials say Israel is close to completing the underground component and can see the finish...

December 15, 2020 | Eric S. Edelman, Aykan Erdemir

American Interests in the Eastern Mediterranean