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America maintains a vast network of bases, troops and assets throughout the region, to the chagrin of Tehran By JON GAMBRELL Today, 7:58 pm 0 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A US aircraft carrier strike group rushes toward the Persian Gulf. Decades-old B-52 bombers rumble down runways at desert air bases. The Pentagon, meanwhile, […]

News Desk2019-05-11 Israel has the full arsenal needed to take on Hezbollah in Lebanon and eliminate the Iranian threat in Syria, the outgoing IDF Northern Command chief boasted, warning Damascus against using S-300s to protect its sovereignty. “If our freedom of movement is threatened, we will remove the threat. We know how to do that,” […]

Maliki was the leader of Iraq during a period of intense sectarianism, when pro-Iranian forces were largely seen as increasing their hold on Baghdad. By Seth J. Frantzman May 11, 2019 15:28   1 minute read. Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki released several statements in the last week warning the US against making Iraq […]

Khaled al-Batsh says his group can ‘obligate’ Israel to fulfill its side of a truce agreement brokered by Russia, Egypt and Qatar By TOI STAFFToday, 2:51 pm  0 0shares Fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad terror group’s military wing, take part in a military march in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip […]

US-Iranian tensions this week were ramped up by intelligence of a plot for Iran’s Iraqi proxies to attack the American Al Tanf garrison in E. Syria, which commands the strategic Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border intersection. DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources, reporting this exclusively, reveal that Tehran’s master-plotter is Qais al-Khazail, head of the Iraqi Kataib Hezballah militia, […]

The Trump administration sees Iran’s behavior as another instance of why it pulled the U.S. out of the deal in the first place: the Iranian regime is not trustworthy. RON KAMPEAS/JTA May 11, 2019 00:53 WASHINGTON (JTA) – Iran announced this week that it is changing a key term of the Iran nuclear deal — […]

Posted on: May 10th, 2019 Defensible borders’ key feature, in the Middle East, must be the capability to confront the shifty, volcanic and violent reality of the region, which has been top heavy on worst-case scenarios, highlighting clear and present lethal threats. Realistically, Israel’s defensible borders should not be based on well-meaning, peaceful coexistence (best-case) scenarios […]

Last week Turkey sparked another crisis by starting drilling in Cypriot waters. That’s a problem not just for Cyprus but for Israel, too Davd Rosenberg  May 08, 2019  Even the most avid Erdogan watcher has to work hard up with all the crises the Turkish leader has wrought. This week the No. 1 crisis was […]

After two years of major unilateral decisions, the White House faces numerous crises that it has kindled in the hope that at least one will turn out in its favor. Seth J. Frantzman May 11, 2019 03:34 On Friday the Trump administration raised tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese exports. At the same time the […]

The statement comes a few days after the US slapped a new round of sanctions on Iran’s steel, iron, aluminium and copper sectors following Tehran’s move to suspend some of its obligations under the nuclear deal in light of Washington’s decision to intensify restrictive measures. Speaking to Bild newspaper, US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell warned that […]

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had met his US counterpart at the Arctic Council in in Rovaniemi, Finland, where they discussed strategic stability. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Russia on 12-14 May, where he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the State Department said in a statement. “Secretary […]

By News Desk 2019-05-10   .td_uid_6_5cd5defd5828b_rand.td-a-rec-img{text-align:left}.td_uid_6_5cd5defd5828b_rand.td-a-rec-img img{margin:0 auto 0 0} BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:20 P.M.) – The U.S. military and their allies from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) opened fire on a Syrian government ferry that was attempting to transport oil in the Euphrates River Valley. According to the pro-SDF Deir Ezzor Media Center page on Facebook, […]