After Lebanese President Joseph Khalil Aoun condemned on Sunday Hezbollah’s “populist campaign” to lure Lebanon into a conflict with Israel, Lt.-Col. (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, the founder and president of the Alma Research and Education Center,…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Expert doubts Lebanon will confront Hezbollah
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Northern war widens: 700,000 Lebanese displaced, 1 million Israelis in shelters
The IDF struck hundreds of targets in Lebanon since the weekend and ordered what officials describe as ‘unprecedented evacuations,’ as Hezbollah attacks reach central Israel
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Conflicting reports fuel confusion over Badfar’s death
Conflicting reports on Tuesday left open basic questions about the fate of Asadollah Badfar, head of the Basij (paramilitary volunteer militia within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) unit within Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff, after…
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Donald Trump open to Iran talks, slams new leader Khamenei
US President Donald Trump told Fox News that it’s possible he would be willing to talk with Iran but that it depends on the terms, the cable news network said on Tuesday.Trump also reiterated his unhappiness with Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba…
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US defense secretary warns of ‘most intense day’ of strikes on Iranian targets
The US defense chief warned that Tuesday would be the most intense day of the war against Iran so far, while Israel’s leader said regime change in Iran could only come from the people, as Washington and Jerusalem continued to strike…
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Half of Iranian missiles have been cluster munitions
This is a shift from the June 2025 war with Iran, when occasionally the missiles were built of cluster munitions, but most were not.Typically, Iranian ballistic missiles have 500 to 1,000 kilograms of explosives in them and strike one target,…
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First group of Indonesians evacuated from Iran arrive home
Nearly two dozen Indonesians repatriated from Iran arrived home on Tuesday, recalling the terror of falling bombs in the Islamic republic as the Middle East descended into war.
The group of 22 people is the first brought back to Indonesia by the…
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Iran war: When is the right time to end the conflict?
The Iran war has crossed the 10-day threshold, and US President Donald Trump has publicly mused about ending it sooner than his original “four to five weeks” estimate.The US and Israel are still hitting the Islamic regime hard each day, but…
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Maronite priest killed in southern Lebanon during tank fire
The priest, named as Father Pierre al-Raei, was a parish priest in Qaliya, a Christian village near the border, close to Metula.Raei was critically wounded when the Israeli tank fired at a house in the village, according to reports, and later…
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Syrian ex-colonel in UK court on crimes against humanity charge
Salem Michel Al-Salem, accused of crimes committed in Syria in 2011 and 2012, has been named for the first time.
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