The nearly one-month-old war pitting the United States and Israel against Iran shows no signs of letting up, but President Donald Trump is clearly trying to end it on his own terms. Over the past few days, as U.S. and Israeli aircraft have continued to bomb Iran, Trump has issued both optimistic and threatening pronouncements. […]
Israel has absorbed four rounds of punishing Iranian ballistic missile and drone bombardments since the spring of 2024. Although Israel has managed to intercept about 90 percent of the projectiles, the few that have gotten through have caused damage and claimed lives, proving that even the best air defence system is not 100 percent hermetic. […]
Arab Gulf states are shocked and dismayed that they have been continually targeted by Iran during its war with the United States and Israel. Since its outbreak on February 28, Iran has fired roughly 1,300 ballistic missiles and 2,500 drones at the Persian Gulf. Approximately 60 percent of Iranian projectiles have been aimed at countries […]
Israel is currently embroiled in a two-front war. As Israeli jets pound Iran, Israel hammers Hezbollah in Lebanon. The war north of Israel’s border has been overshadowed by the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Iran, but Israel’s operations in Lebanon are equally vital for its long-term peace and security. Hezbollah, Iran’s chief regional proxy, launched […]
Nearly two weeks after the United States and Israel went to war with Iran, President Donald Trump appears eager to wrap it up expeditiously, worried by the skyrocketing price of oil and concerned that about two-thirds of Americans oppose the war. Since almost day one, Trump has issued a cascade of contradictory remarks about its […]
The Iranian regime is attempting to expand the war in Iran beyond its borders to drive up the economic and political costs for the United States and its Arab allies. It is a risky strategy, but Iran seems bent on pursuing it. And as Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Iranian National Security Council, said […]
The current war in Iran has spilled into Lebanon, much to Iran’s satisfaction. Hezbollah, a creation of Iran and Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle East, is dragging Lebanon into a war yet again, despite having assured the Lebanese government that it would not intervene on behalf of Iran if U.S. and Israeli strikes remained […]
Until his assassination, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme ruler of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East. He was killed by Israel and the United States in a joint operation on February 28. The air strike on his compound in Tehran took place shortly after U.S. President […]
Iran’s highly controversial nuclear program has ignited Israel’s second war with Iran in less than a year. It broke out on February 28, when the United States and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran in a preemptive offensive intended to destroy its military and nuclear capabilities and decapitate its leadership. Within hours of the […]
By any yardstick, Narendra Modi’s most recent visit to Israel, his second in nine years, seems to have been an unqualified success. The prime minister of India, the world’s most populous democracy, spent two days in Israel, one of the few democracies in the Middle East. He conferred with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his […]