Qatari Royal Facing Arrest Warrant in UK Over $6 Billion Debt
An English judge issued an arrest warrant on May 16 for a member of Qatar’s ruling Al Thani family. Sheikh Fahad Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Thani, a cousin of former Qatari prime minister...
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UNRWA meets the Spanish Inquisition
They may be separated by seven centuries, but a commonality is clearly apparent when it comes to the Jewish people.
Op-eds
World Central Kitchen Resumes Gaza Operations
Aid organization World Central Kitchen (WCK) resumed operations in Gaza this week, providing 200,000 meals to Palestinians in Gaza on April 30. The aid organization had suspended operations in Gaza after...
Flash Briefs
U.S. Rushes Aid to Ukraine as Russia Presses Near Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar
The United States has begun rushing artillery shells and other aid to Ukraine following the passage of the long-delayed national security supplemental bill. For Kyiv’s embattled troops, this...
Op-eds
US Army ships heading to Gaza, arrive in Crete
US Army ships on their way to Gaza are part of the increased efforts by US-Israeli cooperation to increase humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Op-eds
Israel to Set Up Coordination Room for Gaza Aid
Israel will set up a situation room to coordinate between its military and international aid organizations, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on April 2 following the accidental...
Flash Briefs
How tensions between Hamas and Fatah could change Gaza
The Hamas decision to launch the unprecedented massacre of October 7 was an attempt to launch a first strike that could change the region.
Op-eds
First maritime humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza
The first delivery of humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza occurred on March 15. The Israel Defense Forces said that 115 tons of food and water arrived via a barge that was towed to Gaza by a ship called Open...
Op-eds
10 Things to Know About UNIFIL
Despite a mandate to maintain international peace and security, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has repeatedly failed to secure the Israel-Lebanon border and support the Lebanese Armed...
Insights
US Should Sanction Lebanon’s pro-Iran ‘Resistance TV’
On December 27, an Israeli missile hit a home in the Southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, killing brothers Ali and Ibrahim Bazzi and Ibrahim’s wife. Within hours, Al Manar, Hezbollah’s official media...
Op-eds
Telesur’s Pro-Iran Propaganda
Disinformation from the Maduro regime should draw just as much attention from the State Department as Russian disinformation does.
Op-eds
HispanTV Is Iran’s Propaganda Arm in Latin America; Why Is It Still Being Broadcast?
On October 7, Hamas terrorists breached the Gaza security fence, entered Israel, and massacred more than 1,400 people — raping, burning, mutilating, and torturing their victims, including infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and disabled people. They also took more than 220 hostages back to Gaza...
Op-eds
War flashbacks in Guam as China projects power in the Pacific
Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero, the Governor of Guam, a US territory, is not just waiting for the rest of the US to come save them. In this interview conducted in July, she describes some of the initiatives she is hoping to get off the ground so Guam is better able to defend itself.
Op-eds
Keep Air Defense at the Top of NATO’s Agenda in Vilnius
Despite reports that Russia’s missile supplies might be running low, Ukraine faces a renewed aerial bombardment from the Russian military. According to the BBC, the month of May saw Ukraine receive a...
Op-eds
Tehran Takes Caracas
On Monday, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi began a five-day tour of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, three Latin American countries governed by authoritarian, anti-Western regimes. Raisi’s three predecessors...
Op-eds
Iran’s Raisi Embarks on Five-Day Tour of Latin American Countries
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi landed in Caracas on June 12, the first stop of a five-day visit to Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. Accompanying Raisi is a large delegation, including the Iranian ministers...
Flash Briefs
Stationing US Navy Destroyers in Spain Increases Readiness in the Pacific
The U.S. Navy recently announced its intention to forward station an additional two Arleigh Burke-class ballistic missile defense-capable destroyers in Rota, Spain, raising the total number of U.S. destroyers...
Op-eds
The real power behind Paraguay’s new president
On Sunday April 30, moments after giving his acceptance speech, Paraguay’s president-elect Santiago Peña welcomed the former president, Horacio Cartes, to join him on the podium. The adoring crowd erupted...
Insights
It’s not just the EU that needs to scrutinize Qatar’s influence campaigns
There’s nothing wrong with deploying capital for economic growth — but Doha seeks to gain sway too.
Op-eds
Time for the Biden Administration to Clip the Wings of Iran’s Propaganda Machine
On December 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Al Mustafa International University in Qom, Iran, the principal institution recruiting, indoctrinating, and training foreign converts...