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Jasim Al-AzzawiMiddle East Monitor |
Three weeks ago, this region operated under a set of assumptions that had held, more or less, for forty years. Iran would threaten. Proxies would...
For months, a war has been unfolding across Iraq with little of the fanfare that once accompanied American military campaigns in the region. There are...
Iran’s missile strike near Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility on Saturday night was more than a dramatic escalation in the shadow war between the...
The war in the Gulf has entered a decisive phase. Six months from now, the strategic landscape will look markedly different, shaped not only by the...
Every war produces dissent. Most people keep it to themselves. Some leave quietly. Very few say plainly what they think. Joe Kent did. The director of...
The war in Iran did not begin with a missile strike or a declaration. It began in the sweltering August of 1953, in the offices of a CIA operative...
The United States and Israel did not stumble into war with Iran. They were driven into it — by the relentless drumbeat of political rhetoric, by...
When three senior American officials told The Washington Post that Russia was providing Iran with sensitive intelligence, including the precise...
The infamous Epstein files do not merely pulse with the sordid details of one man’s depravity; they are the autopsy report of a dying moral order....
There is a dangerous, academic notion currently haunting the halls of Washington and Tel Aviv: the idea that a fractured Iran, carved into a...
General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a private warning to President Trump with the bluntness that democracies depend...
As Lebanon approaches parliamentary elections in May 2026, the country stands at a crossroads. Hizballah, the mighty image of Lebanese politics and...
The strike on Tehran was not just another exchange in the long shadow war between Israel and Iran. It was a precision operation timed to coincide with...
Earlier today, the United States and Israel launched an attack against Iran, hitting targets across the country. In their televised speeches, US...
The uneasy negotiations between the United States and Iran are unfolding under the shadow of a long historical truth: great-power systems rarely...
There are moments when the edifice of propaganda collapses, when the images of emaciated children, pulverised neighbourhoods, and mass graves pierce...
For decades, American military planners have operated on a simple assumption: that overwhelming force, applied decisively, could resolve almost any...
When President Donald Trump took to social media to demand that former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki withdraw his bid for a return to power,...
When former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Turkey, with the support of Qatar, was replacing Iran as Israel’s major strategic...
“Trump’s challenge isn’t just Tehran. It’s balancing Israel, the donor class, and his own movement—both of which are pulling him in...
In the rarefied environment of the West Wing, the ghosts of the “Twelve-Day War” that transpired last June still linger in the Situation Room. For...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington last week was far from a routine diplomatic exercise. The objective was...