The 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon, which was due to expire on April 26, has been extended by three weeks until May 17. That is the good news. The bad news is that this tenuous truce has already crumbled. U.S. President Donald Trump was instrumental in prolonging the April 16 ceasefire during the second round of […]
Under cover of Israel’s wars in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Iran since 2023, the Israeli government has consolidated its control of the West Bank immeasurably. Existing settlements have been expanded. New ones have been built. Unauthorized outposts have been legalized. Evacuated settlements have been reestablished. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition government, which assumed […]
There has never been an American president like Donald Trump regarding his relationship with Israel. No less a figure than Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel who has worked closely with Trump during his two presidential terms, has repeatedly hailed him as the most pro-Israel president in history. This is quite a claim, but […]
Israel’s protracted conflict with Lebanon may well be easing, judging by the most recent developments. On April 14, Israel and Lebanon conducted preparatory talks in Washington ahead of what may be more substantive negotiations in the near future. A day later, the Israeli security cabinet met to consider a short-term ceasefire in Lebanon to pause […]
On April 8, shortly after the United States and Iran accepted a Pakistani proposal to abide by a two-week ceasefire in the war in Iran, Israel carried out a massive wave of air strikes aimed at Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. These attacks, the deadliest in decades, complicated the peace talks between the United States and […]
High-level U.S.-Iran talks are due to begin in Islamabad on April 11, four days after the United States and the Iranian regime accepted a two-week ceasefire proposal brokered by Pakistan to pause the war in Iran. The fighting erupted on February 28 after the United States and Israel launched joint air strikes in Iran. These […]
When the United States and Israel jointly went to war with Iran on February 28, President Donald Trump predicted that the conflict would last from three to five weeks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not commit himself to a deadline, preferring to keep his options open. Almost six weeks on, there is no end in […]
As Russia watches the current war in Iran play out, it is caught between its support of the Iranian regime and its desire to preserve bilateral relations with the United States and Israel, which attacked Iran a little more than a month ago. Hewing to a calibrated policy of strategic equilibrium, Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
Two more members of Iran’s Axis of Resistance have been drawn into the month-long war waged by the United States and Israel in Iran. On March 28, the Houthis of Yemen launched their first attack against Israel since the end of the two-year war in the Gaza Strip last October. Targeting “sensitive Israeli military sites,” […]
Nearly a month into its third war with Hezbollah since 2006, Israel has expanded its ground and air operations in Lebanon and may yet launch a fullscale invasion of southern Lebanon. As Defence Minister Israel Katz indicated, Israel intends to create a buffer zone in territory south of the Litani River, a distance of some […]