“Military and Moral Failures”: How Iran’s Israel Strike Reshaped the Region

Kit Klarenberg On April 13, Iran, alongside Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Ansar Allah, executed Operation True Promise, a vast wave of drone, cruise and ballistic missile strikes on Israel, launched in retaliation to Tel Aviv’s criminal bombing of Tehran’s Damascus embassy less than two weeks earlier, which killed two Iranian generals. As a result, history…

Why Israel Is Afraid of Hezbollah

BreakThrough News Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance forces, have been fiercely confronting the Israeli army along its southern border in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. But while there have been tit-for-tat exchanges of fire, Israel ultimately does not want another war with Lebanon because they know Hezbollah is capable of defeating them. Ali Mortada, a South…

Gaza, Hezbollah and the Decline of Zionism

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Milei’s Hallucination: Iranian Troops in Bolivia. Hezbollah in Chile.

Alfredo Rada Javier Milei with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Photo: Press Office Israeli Govt Argentine Minister of Security made statements accusing Bolivia and Chile of hosting Iranian soldiers and members of Hezbollah, in a clear escalation against its neighbors. The government of neo-fascist Javier Milei, which has pledged absolute alignment with what it calls the…

From the ‘Battle of Dignity’ to the Shield of Shame: How Jordan Has Fallen

Khalil Harb Amman’s collaboration with Tel Aviv peaked last Saturday with its shocking defense of Israeli territory from Iranian drones and missiles, a move that may prove fateful for the future of the Hashemite Kingdom. The most dangerous development during Iran’s massive 13 April retaliatory strike against Israel last weekend was the defensive military alliance – comprising…

PFLP: Unprecedented Iranian Strikes on Israel Signal Turning Point in Al-Aqsa Battle

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praised the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s targeting of zionist military sites with dozens of missiles and drones in response to the entity’s aggression against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, describing the Iranian response as a significant pivotal event that will establish new rules of engagement in the region. The Front…

IRGC Launches ‘Extensive’ Retaliatory Missile, Drone Strikes on Occupied Territories

Picture taken during the launch of an Iranian missile or drone towards the occupied territories Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has launched “extensive” retaliatory missile and drone strikes against the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s terrorist attack of April 1 against the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital Damascus….

Israel’s War on Lebanon’s Trees

Bilal Nour Al-Deen Israel has escalated its war on south Lebanon’s woodland – incinerating all life in the agricultural belt and rendering it an uninhabitable buffer zone. Lebanon has a deep cultural connection to its trees. Its ancient cedar tree, which dominates the forests of its northern highlands, holds great symbolic importance as a national emblem…

A Ring of Enemies Surrounds Israel

Abbas Juma On Monday, the Israeli Air Force struck a building near the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital. As a result of the attack, the consulate building was destroyed and the commanders of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unit, Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were killed. President Ebrahim…

Brothers in Arms: The Renewal of Shia-Sunni Resistance Against Israel

Bilal Nour Al-Deen Jama’a al-Islamiyya’s return to the front lines against Israel may have minimal immediate effects, but carries significant long-term implications for Lebanon’s sectarian dynamics and the divisive goals of western and Gulf-backed Sunni parties. Recently, Jama’a al-Islamiyya (JI or the ‘Islamic Group’) – a Lebanese party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood – has…

Israel’s ‘Battle Between Wars’ Has Failed

Khalil Nasrallah The Lebanese resistance has utterly gutted Israel’s years-long strategy of denying its access to weapons. Tel Aviv’s strikes on Syria have failed to impede Hezbollah’s arms, which grow qualitatively and quantitatively with each passing day, and are now produced en masse domestically. Work is ongoing to open new warehouses and bring in new…

Israel and America Are at War with Iran, Russia and China

A World War in All but Name… Richard Medhurst Never in history has a “state” bombed another state’s embassy, and in a third country. In the last 12 weeks Israel and the US have attacked Iran, Russia, China, Syria, Yemen. British journalist Richard Medhurst reports on the Israeli airstrike that targeted the Iranian Embassy in…

Lebanon’s Christians and the War in Gaza

Bilal Nour Al-Deen Wary of Hezbollah’s domestic motives in backing Palestine, Lebanon’s Christians are hesitant to align with their resistance. But their political apathy may ultimately cost them demographically by advancing Israel’s goal to flood regional states with Palestinian refugees. Ever since 8 October, when Hezbollah rallied militarily to support the Palestinian resistance in Gaza…

Israel Accelerates Murderous Rampage Defying the ICJ and UNSC Ceasfire Resolution

Israel carries out several attacks inside Lebanon and Syria killing civilians Peoples Dispatch A building in Lebanon destroyed by Israeli strikes. Photo: Al Manar An Israeli attack on an emergency response center in Lebanon killed seven people. Another set of strikes on Syria killed several soldiers and an Iranian military adviser. Despite the UN Security…

Israel Sets 15 March Deadline to Launch a ‘Broad War’ against Lebanon

The Cradle Tel Aviv has threatened to ‘push Hezbollah’ away from the border if diplomatic efforts fail, as the Lebanese resistance has successfully created a military buffer zone extending deep into the northern occupied territories. Israel has informed its western sponsors of a 15 March deadline to reach “a political settlement with Lebanon,” after which Tel Aviv…

Israel Using Smartphones to Kill the Lebanese Resistance

Jamal Meselmani Israel’s military penetrates everyday Lebanese smartphones and neighborhood security cameras as part of a formidable surveillance and espionage mission to kill Hezbollah fighters and their families. Recently, there has been a flurry of reports detailing Israel’s capabilities in surveillance and tracking of mobile devices in connection to Tel Aviv’s military aggression against southern Lebanon. These covert operations, which often…

Deactivating US Military Bases in the Persian Gulf

Suat Delgen US weapons are dropping on Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, so some major Arab states hosting US military bases are now telling Washington ‘You can’t launch from here.’ In West Asia, the bedrock of US power projection lies in its strategically located military bases nestled within the Persian Gulf. However, the future of…

Red Lines: Will Iran Enter the Regional War?

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Despite Tehran’s central role in the Axis of Resistance, which has launched regionwide operations against Israel and its US ally, the Islamic Republic refuses to rise to the enemy’s bait and make itself a central target. On 14 October 2023, Iran issued a stern public ultimatum to Israel, cautioning that unless it ceases its…