It has been an interesting first month of this new year and to this start of the second presidential term of Trump. More so for the MENA area. The long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has finally come and currently hostages are being exchanged, but the hard work has only just begun. The whole world […]
The new president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, the former commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces and a maronite christian, has declared after taking the seat that he would disarm Hezbollah. This, by all means, seems unlikely for the moment or the near future since the position he holds is one regarded as mere ceremonial, reserved […]
After more than 13 years, the Al Assad regime has finally fallen. The reasons are multiple, but the key is that two major situations have rendered his support to fail – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas-Israel war. The Ukraine war has drained resources from Russia after more than two years of fighting a […]
On the 27th of November the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into effect following a brokered deal by the United States and France between the parties. This is a temporary one even though the US administration is adamant for the creation of a more permanent deal between them. According to sources which cite from […]
On the 29th of August, the IDF has reported that it had dismantled the Rafah brigade of Hamas which operating in the southern Gaza Strip city, as well as having destroyed 80% of the tunnels used by the terrorist group there, in the Philadelphi Corridor area. The rescue of a living hostage in Rafah on […]
On the 18th of September more than 3000 pager exploded in Beirut and its surroundings which, as suspected, turned out to be a highly effective intelligence operation by Mossad which had intercepted the supply chain of Hezbollah who had settled for pagers instead of smartphones and other more modern devices for fears of being intercepted. […]
The much-awaited retaliation from Israel in response to the Iranian attack on its soil came last week and, as expected, was not meant to cause real damage, just as the Iranian one was not meant to take it up a notch either. But bear in mind that this exchange is still dangerous and can lead […]
On the 20th of August, the IDF retrieved the bodies of six Israeli hostages which had been kidnapped alive and were held in Hamas captivity. This prompted the frustration of their families as they believed that this outcome could have been avoided. As per our last article, the hostage deal hangs by a thread, as […]
It happens that the warring sides find themselves again in the position of negotiating for a ceasefire and a release of hostages. The deal itself has been endorsed by Biden, it being an Israeli offer for Hamas which, for what it’s worth and from everything that we are being presented in the public space, the […]
It has been more than a week since the longstanding leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has been eliminated by the Israeli strikes in Lebanon and thus has ended an epoch at the helm of one of the most serious terrorist groups which Israel has faced for decades. The Lebanon question has been resurfacing for some […]
