Iraqi parliamentary candidate killed in car bombing
Safaa al Mashhadani, a Sunni Iraqi parliamentary candidate who served on the Baghdad Provincial Council, was killed by a car bomb, The National reported on October 15. Mashhadani, a candidate...
Saladin
US military strikes Islamic State camps and personnel in central Syria
On December 16, the US military launched a second round of strikes against Islamic State personnel and infrastructure in Syria since the fall of the regime of Bashir al Assad on December 8. US operations...
Op-eds
IDF returns to northern Gaza’s Jabaliya neighborhood
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expanded operations in northern Gaza overnight between October 5 and October 6, sending tanks and infantry into Jabliya, a suburb of Gaza City. It is the third time the...
Op-eds
Israel SitRep: August 21, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IAF Strikes Hezbollah Weapons Depots for Second Consecutive Night | IDF Continues Operations in Rafah, Khan Younis, and Netzarim Corridor, IAF Strikes Some 30 Targets | IAF Uses Precision...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: Nov. 8, 2023
Netanyahu Reiterates: No Ceasefire Without Release of Hostages; Qatar-Mediated Deal on Ceasefire-Hostage Exchange Reported to be Underway | IDF: Israel Operating in the ‘Heart of Gaza’; Hamas Retains...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel enters new phase of war with Gaza City now encircled
The Israel Defense Forces succeeded in encircling Gaza City in the first week of the ground offensive and have now begun to spread out and settle into their operational areas. ...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Israeli Forces Isolate Northern Gaza Strip
Israeli ground forces bisected the Gaza Strip on November 5, isolating northern areas where they are intensifying the war against Hamas. “Today there is north Gaza and south Gaza,”...
Flash Briefs
The Kurds are not angels
But among the many Muslim nations, America has had no better friend .
Op-eds
How not to end endless wars
Retreating and abandoning allies may not be the optimum strategy.
Op-eds
Islamic State wages desert-based insurgency in Iraq and Syria
The Islamic State is far from dead in Iraq and Syria. Despite losing its physical caliphate, the group maintained enough manpower and resources to continue waging an insurgency in both countries. And America’s...
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Pakistan has ‘full-fledged plan’ to take out terrorist groups, while denying their existence
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US Adds Mullah Nazir Group, Subcommander to Terrorism List
The US State Department has added the Mullah Nazir Group, a Taliban subgroup based in South Waziristan, and an important deputy commander to the list of foreign terrorist entities and individuals...
Op-eds
The Arab Winter of Discontent
Ten months on, the Arab explosion has shown its truer – more nuanced and complicated – colors.
Op-eds
More than 375 suspected al Qaeda fighters detained in Diyala operation
Map of Diyala province [PDF]. Click to view. More than 375 insurgents and al Qaeda operatives have been captured during the first week of Operation Omens of Prosperity in Diyala...
Op-eds
Iraqi Security Forces Five Year Plan: An updated projection
In August 2007, the Projected Iraqi Security Forces Five Year Plan (end-2012), a rough estimate of the end-state for Iraqi forces, was published. Additional information and details have sin...
Op-eds
This Just In: Good News from Iraq
By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. I once had an editor who used to cynically quip, "There's no news like bad news!" He would have loved Iraq: unrelenting terrorism, an insatiable ca...
Op-eds
Superpower No More? Iraq is a Critical Test
Is the United States a superpower? For years, we've assumed this was true. It was an easy assumption to make based on the amount of money we spend on our military and the high-tech...
Op-eds
With Saddam’s Fall Arabs May See the Light
Saddam Hussein's capture is cause for celebration, but his story must be seen in a larger context. It is part of the continuing and profoundly troubled saga of Arab nationalism. In the decad...
Op-eds
Reality Bites; Middle East Fictions Fade
The resignation of Mahmoud Abbas was sudden but not surprising. For a few months, everyone called him Mr. Prime Minister, but everyone knew that was a fiction....