Netanyahu may or may not understand Hamas’s strategy, but he needs a big, long war himself for two reasons. One is to postpone a public inquiry into his negligence in failing to forestall the October attacks; the other is to hold his ramshackle coalition together. (If he loses office his...
Hezbollah, and other key allies like Russia and Iran, helped Assad stay in power and retake territory lost earlier in the conflict. Israel's Netanyahu addresses U.N. amid conflicts with Hezbollah, Hamas 13:10 Hezbollah has also expanded politically under Nasrallah's leadership. After Lebanon'...
But those allies have recently been decimated or distracted by other conflicts. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), whose name means Organisation for the Liberation of the Levant, began to form at the beginning of Syria’s civil war, when jihadis formed the Nu...
The Iran nuclear deal is done. And the world's biggest companies have already visited Tehran ready to strike a deal when sanctions end. These businesses will add even more to Iran's bottom line. And that means continued development of nuclear technologies and more cash f...
7, after Hamas’s deadly cross-border raid. Iran’s allies aim to distract Israel and the United States and raise the military, economic and political costs of continuing the war against Hamas. The groups don’t necessarily want a further escalation, given their odds in any all-out ...
During his address, he also decried the failure of Western allies to sanction Russia's nuclear industry. "It's a clear weakness of the West that Russia's nuclear industry is still not under global sanctions, even though Putin is the only terrorist in the world who took a nuclear power pl...
takes risks by avoiding risks—whether against Hamas’s tunnels in 2014, Iran’s nuclear program, or even after the worst massacre in Israeli history. He still refuses to take the obvious response every other leader in the world would take—treat the enemy the way the Allies treated the ...
While they reported “positive results,” there is still no permanent peace. ATTACKS ON SHIPS The Houthis have sporadically targeted ships in the region over time, but the attacks have increased since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas and spiked after an explosion Oct....
And that means bringing all of our allies to safety.” The group of people immediately impacted include the families of roughly 200 US service members, as well as families of people who have already relocated to the US, VanDiver said. Flights for those impacted in the short term have ...
elected leaders, journalists, Big Tech tycoons and “members of the unelected bureaucracy” — calling for “a comprehensive housecleaning” of the Justice Department, which he claims has protected high-ranking members of the Democratic Party while unjustly targeting Republicans and their allies. ...