More than 3,000 coronavirus cases in Iran

Middle East prepares for growing emergency By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MARCH 5, 2020 16:4Tags7 Iran now has more than 3,500 official cases of coronavirus as rates spread rapidly. Suspicions are that numbers are far higher, even though Tehran claims only 100 have died. Throughout the Middle East, cases are increasing with new discoveries in Egypt, […]

US aims to pull all forces out of Afghanistan ‘within 14 months’: declaration

i24NEWS – AFP February 29, 2020, 07:19 AM – latest revision February 29, 2020, 07:38 AM W 1 min read AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi U.S. soldiers part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walks, as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen on the back ground in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 28, […]

US Monitoring Iranian Missile Threats Across Middle East With Saudi Arabia

JNS.org – Along with Saudi Arabia, the United States is “aggressively monitoring Iranian missile threats across the Middle East,” reported The Washington Free Beacon on Thursday, citing US military officials who briefed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a visit that day to the nation’s Prince Sultan Air Base. The air base took in more than […]

Coronavirus in the Middle East – LIVE UPDATES

  Feb 21: Total cases COVID-19 coronavirus worldwide: More than 76,700 and 2,249 deaths Israel’s Ministry of Health on Friday confirmed a passenger returning from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan has tested positive for COVID-19. The first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Lebanon on Friday after a woman arriving from Iran tested positive, […]

Components link Iran to drone attacks in eight countries

US CENTCOM reveals Iran’s role in smuggling weapons SETH J. FRANTZMAN FEBRUARY 20, 2020 01:25 Iran has been exporting drone technology to Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the last decade and similar components may link Iran to drone attacks in eight countries. A report by Conflict Armament Research on Wednesday provided a rare window into the […]

Who’s afraid of Donald Trump in the Middle East?

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis December 19, 2016, 4:50 PM (IDT) Not much can be ascertained about President-elect Donald Trump’s administration future policies for the Middle East – any more than for most other parts of the world, except that his starting points are likely to be diametrically opposed to those of Barack Obama. It is all still in the making. The Russian policy he decides to pursue after he enters the White House and his administration is in place is as unfathomable as are the motives that led him to appoint his lawyer and close adviser, the pro-settlement David Friedman, as …

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