The IRGC on Tuesday fired about 180 missiles at strategic centers in Israel. Iran said the attacks were in retaliation for Israel's assassinations of Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and senior IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan, as well as its intensification...
After the missile attacks on Tuesday, Israel's military vowed to "carry out attacks throughout the Middle East tonight" in retaliation. Israel has been engaged in a yearlong war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In the waters off Yemen's coast, the Houthi group is attacking ships that have l...
Iran's attacks on Israel appear to have been performative, said Michael Singh, fmr sr director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council. This was "a slow-moving, thoroughly telegrap...
Iran must stop these attacks – together with its proxies, like Hezbollah. Iran has menaced the Middle East for far too long. Chaos and destruction brought not just to Israel, but to the people they live amongst in Lebanon and beyond. Make no mistake: Britain stands full square against suc...
2024 alone, the U.S. Navy reported 28 Houthi-fired drones aimed at targets in the Red Sea, with further, more sophisticated attacks likely to happen in the future. Here, the average cost of a drone is $20,000-$30,000, whereas U.S. defensive assets cost on average $500,000 per ...
But in some respects, it is harder for Israel to be targeted and proportional in its attacks on Lebanon. This is because parts of the country are very mountainous, so there are lots of tunnels beneath the surface. They are rock tunnels, so they are not in the sand. It'...
Hamas has been locked in a war with Israel for almost a year since its 7 October attacks. It has praised the Iranian military for firing missiles at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, saying the strikes were "heroic" for responding to the deaths of three men in par
Iran launched another direct attack on Israel in April, butfew of its projectiles reached their targets. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight. Iran said it fired the missiles into Israel as retaliation for attacks that ki...
The optimistic case is Iran is clumsily attempting a “calibrated” response that satisfies its pride and supporters. It took two weeks of deliberation to decide how to react after the embassy strike. It felt compelled to do something: after months of Israeli attacks on its forces in Syria and...
Since the outbreak of the conflict in October last year, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and resistance groups in Iraq have launched attacks on targets associated with Israel. As Iran launches direct attacks on Israel, analysts worry that the security landscape in the Middle East could be on the ...