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October 6, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

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...

August 21, 2024 | |

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...

November 8, 2023 | |

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...

November 6, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

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. ...

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 5, 2023 | |

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,”...

October 23, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

The Kurds are not angels

But among the many Muslim nations, America has had no better friend .

October 16, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

How not to end endless wars

Retreating and abandoning allies may not be the optimum strategy.

August 7, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

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...

March 5, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan has ‘full-fledged plan’ to take out terrorist groups, while denying their existence

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March 4, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

September 5, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Arab Winter of Discontent

Ten months on, the Arab explosion has shown its truer – more nuanced and complicated – colors.

October 2, 2005 |

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...

December 29, 2004 | Clifford D. May

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...

December 17, 2003 | New York Daily News

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...

September 10, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

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....

June 11, 2003 | Clifford D. May Townhall |

Arafat Wins Again

Give Yasser Arafat credit. The man has always had a genius for destruction. And in the long twilight of his career, he hasn't lost a step. In a stroke, he has derailed progress toward an Isr...