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March 29, 2024
Israel Kills Deputy Hezbollah Rocketry Chief
Israel killed Hezbollah’s deputy rocketry chief in Lebanon on March 29 and was accused by Syria of carrying out a separate airstrike against the Iranian-backed terrorist group...
March 29, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 29, 2024
Today’s Issue: Senior Hamas Commander Ra’ad Thabet Eliminated in IDF Operation in Shifa Hospital | IDF Releases Footage of Interrogation of Terrorist Who Raped Kibbutz Resident on October 7 | IDF Continues...
March 29, 2024
FTX Founder Receives 25-Year Prison Sentence
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison for massive financial fraud. The sentence, coupled with an $11 billion forfeiture order, marks a significant milestone in one...
March 28, 2024
Iran Makes Progress on Constructing Underground Nuclear Site
A March 25 report found that Iran continues to make progress in constructing a deeply buried nuclear site near Natanz. The report by the Institute for Science and International Security...
March 28, 2024
Israel to Send Delegation to Washington to Discuss Rafah Operation
The White House said on March 27 that senior Israeli officials agreed to reschedule a trip to Washington to discuss alternatives for a ground operation in Rafah. The move reverses...
March 28, 2024
Palestinian Terrorist Confesses to October 7 Rape
A Palestinian terrorist captured by Israeli forces confessed to carrying out a rape during the October 7 rampage, his interrogation video showed. In the more than five minutes of...
March 28, 2024
Warning Sirens Over South Africa
South Africa’s support for Russia, Hamas and China certainly merits termination of its special trade benefits. The U.S. should also impose corruption sanctions on the South African officials who have...
March 28, 2024
Washington Fails — Again — To Gauge Iran’s Nuclear Threat
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently issued its latest worldwide threat assessment but fell short — as it has for several years — in...
March 28, 2024
Palestinian Shoots Up Israeli School Buses and Cars in West Bank’s Jordan Valley
Palestinian terrorists wounded three people in a gun ambush on Israeli vehicles in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley on March 28. The Times of Israel reported that two school buses,...
March 28, 2024
IDF raids in Gaza capture terrorists and uncover weapons
While much focus in Gaza has been on the IDF operation around Shifa hospital, Israeli units have continued to carry out raids in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. This is important because it illustrates...
March 28, 2024
Hamas and Iran Celebrate Israel’s Isolation at UN
Senior Iranian officials and the leaders of Iran’s Gaza-based terror proxies met on March 26 in Tehran, where they celebrated the ceasefire resolution that the UN Security Council...
March 27, 2024
Former Israeli Hostage Recounts Sexual Assault, Torture in Captivity
A former Israeli hostage said Hamas terrorists sexually assaulted her in captivity in an eight-hour interview published on March 26. Amit Soussana, a 40-year-old lawyer from kibbutz...
March 27, 2024
Much Ado About ‘Somethings’
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March 27, 2024
Israeli Troops to Provide Protection for Gaza Aid Pier
Israel agreed on March 26 to provide security for U.S. military personnel building a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, Politico reported. The plan,...
March 27, 2024
Hezbollah Barrage Against Israeli City Kills One
Hezbollah targeted the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona with a barrage of 30 rockets on March 27. The attack killed Zahar Bashara, a 25-year-old resident of the Druze town...
March 27, 2024
Washington Hits Syrian Narco-Trade With New Sanctions
The United States imposed sanctions Tuesday on five Syrian targets for supporting the Assad regime in Syria by trafficking illegal drugs. The sanctions reflect the Biden administration’s continuing efforts...
March 27, 2024
Türkiye’s Energy Engagement in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Excerpt In recent years, Türkiye has significantly increased cooperation with the states of Central Asia and Azerbaijan. One of the most important geopolitical developments in recent years in Eurasia...
March 27, 2024
New Legislation Seeks to Stop Pentagon From Using China-Controlled Tutoring Service
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) introduced legislation on March 21 that would prohibit the Pentagon from offering educational services to U.S. servicemembers and their...
March 27, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 27, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF Confirms Hamas Official Marwan Issa Killed in Israeli Airstrike Earlier in March | IDF Arrests at Shifa Top 500, Army Releases Footage of Terrorist Interrogations | IDF Arrests 10...
March 27, 2024
Lone soldiers
“Israel Alone” is the headline on the cover of the March 23rd issue of The Economist, a British weekly. The illustration shows an Israeli flag buffeted by a sandstorm. I wonder if Yahya Sinwar,...
March 27, 2024
Training begins in northern Israel to prepare forces for “offensive plans”
One person died in northern Israel after Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets at Kiryat Shmona on March 27, just one day after the terrorist group targeted a military base on Mount Meron in northern...
March 26, 2024
Israel Intercepts Advanced Iranian Weapons En Route to West Bank
The Shin Bet and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated on March 25 that a significant weapons smuggling plot by Iranian operatives was thwarted in “recent months.” The...
March 26, 2024
Iranian Rial’s Depreciation Persists Into Persian New Year
The Iranian rial struck a record low on March 24, trading at about 613,000 to the U.S. dollar in the unregulated market. Since January, the dollar has appreciated about 21 percent...
March 26, 2024
Senior Israeli Officials Cancel Upcoming Trip to Washington
Senior Israeli officials on March 25 canceled a planned trip to Washington after the United States abstained from a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution opposed by Israel. Jerusalem...
March 26, 2024
Israel Quits Doha Hostage Talks After Hamas Rejects Deal
Israel on March 26 withdrew its negotiators from Qatar-hosted talks on a potential Gaza truce after Hamas rejected a U.S.-proposed compromise. Mossad director David Barnea, who has...
March 26, 2024
Washington Denies a Bedrock of Warfighting
The Biden administration recently pressed Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries. Ukrainian strikes on refineries and tankers in the Black Sea have contributed to a rise in the global oil price,...
March 26, 2024
Israel Hits Hezbollah Deep in Lebanon
Israel carried out its longest-range attack on Hezbollah yet on March 26 after the Lebanese terrorist group launched missiles at a strategic northern base of the Israel Defense Forces...
March 26, 2024
Israel’s Minister of Defense in Washington for key meetings
Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant arrived in Washington for a multi-day visit for meetings with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of Defense Lloyd...
March 26, 2024
Hezbollah claims it has six-fold increase in speed of weapons delivery
Hezbollah has increased the speed with which it can stockpile weapons, one of its senior officials told Al Mayadeen, a pro-Iranian news channel based in Beirut. This is important because Hezbollah...
March 26, 2024
Houthis boast of ‘advanced’ capabilities
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March 26, 2024
How did 500 terrorists return to Shifa Hospital?
Over the last week, the Israel Defense Forces have been carrying out a complex raid at Shifa Hospital. The hospital is a large, sprawling compound. The raid began a week ago, on the evening of March...
March 26, 2024
Iran believes Gaza war will ‘shape new world order’
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said the war in Gaza will lead to a “transformation in the unjust order that rules the world.” He made the claims at a gathering on Monday, according to Iran’s...
March 25, 2024
Israeli Defense Minister Visits Washington to Push for Expedited Military Aid
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant arrived in Washington this week, reportedly to request expedited shipments of weapon systems from the United States. The visit marks Gallant’s...
March 25, 2024
Terror Exposes Putin’s Broken Promise—And Worse Will Come
Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist violence in 2004. It exposed...
March 25, 2024
U.S. Abstains From Ceasefire Resolution at UN Security Council
The United States abstained from a resolution that the UN Security Council adopted on March 25 demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution, which the 10 non-permanent...
March 25, 2024
Israeli Forces Find ‘Large Amount of Military Equipment’ at Shifa Hospital
Israeli forces uncovered weapons hidden throughout Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 25. “The operation was launched after receiving...
March 25, 2024
U.S. Bans UNRWA Funding for One Year
President Joe Biden on March 23 signed into law a one-year ban on U.S. funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The measure, passed overwhelmingly by Congress...
March 25, 2024
Hamas Shells Ashdod, First Since January
Hamas launched rockets at Ashdod on March 25, in the first such attack against the Israeli city from Gaza in 10 weeks. The eight rockets fired from the central Gaza Strip set off...
March 25, 2024
Serbia and Russia want to refight Kosovo, this time with disinformation
Excerpt Yesterday, marked the 25th anniversary of NATO’s intervention against Serbia in 1999 to halt the human rights abuses perpetrated against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo. Today,...
March 25, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 25, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 25, 2024 Today’s Issue: IDF Spokesman: Shifa Hospital Operation “One of the Most Successful Operations” Since Start of War | At Shifa Hospital, IDF Has Arrested Some 500 Hamas...
March 25, 2024
Hamas launches rockets at major Israeli cities
For the first time in two months, rockets were fired from Gaza at Ashdod and Ashkelon, two coastal Israeli cities south of Tel Aviv which were the major targets of hundreds of rocket attacks...
March 25, 2024
Bring them home . . . or not — Biden just sold out Israeli hostages at the United Nations
President Biden cleared the way Monday for the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding Israel suspend its counterterrorism operations in Gaza without conditioning any...
March 25, 2024
United States Cyber Force
March 24, 2024
Palestinian Sniper Kills Israeli Soldier in West Bank
A Palestinian sniper killed an Israeli soldier and wounded seven others in a West Bank ambush on March 22. According to Palestinian media, the Palestinian terrorist Mujahid Barakat...
March 22, 2024
Congress Is Right to Call for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok
The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing...
March 22, 2024
Russia, China Veto Ceasefire Resolution at UN
Latest Developments Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on March 22 calling for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, the release of remaining hostages, and a halt to Houthi attacks in the...
March 22, 2024
Battle of Avdiivka: A Preliminary Analysis
This article offers a preliminary analysis of the Battle of Avdiivka, particularly its final weeks. While more information will no doubt come to light as time passes, some initial conclusions stand out....
March 22, 2024
Israel Arrests Man Planning Suicide Attack
Israeli police said on March 21 that they arrested a Palestinian man in the West Bank who intended to carry out a suicide attack. According to law enforcement officials, an undercover...
March 22, 2024
Houthi Missile Strikes Israeli Soil for First Time
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen struck Israel with a cruise missile on March 18 for the first time. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on March 19 that the Israeli Air Force...
March 22, 2024
Poll: Hamas Remains Popular Among Palestinians
Palestinian support for Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza remains high, according to a Palestinian poll released on March 20. That support has increased since the Iran-backed terrorist...
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