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March 18, 2024
Putin Wants War in the Balkans
As all eyes are on Ukraine, another conflict is brewing in Europe. Three decades after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, recent clashes between Serbia and Kosovo have reignited lingering ethnic...
March 18, 2024
White House: Israel Killed Hamas Deputy Chief
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed on March 18 that Israeli forces killed Marwan Issa, deputy chief of Hamas military operations, in an airstrike last week. Issa,...
March 18, 2024
IDF Targets Hamas Terrorists Using Shifa Hospital as Command Center
Israeli troops arrested about 80 Hamas terrorists who were using the premises of Shifa Hospital as a command center, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 18. The IDF announced...
March 18, 2024
Humanitarian Aid Arrives in Gaza Via New Maritime Corridor
A ship carrying 200 tons of humanitarian aid reached northern Gaza on March 15 through a newly established humanitarian maritime corridor. The ship Open Arms carried food, water,...
March 18, 2024
Pakistani military, Afghan Taliban exchange fire along the border
The Afghan Taliban launched attacks across the border into Pakistan on Monday in response to Pakistani military airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan. The Pakistani military, which helped the Afghan Taliban...
March 18, 2024
It’s not just a theory. TikTok’s ties to Chinese government are dangerous.
The House of Representatives last week delivered a clear ultimatum to Chinese technology giant ByteDance: Sell TikTok to American owners or see it removed from U.S. app stores. This bold,...
March 18, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 18, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF Raids Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Calls on Area Residents to Evacuate | At Weekly Israeli Cabinet Meeting, Netanyahu Rejects International Pressure to End the War | IDF Chief of Staff...
March 18, 2024
Friends in Low Places? Behind South Africa’s New Genocide Case Against Israel
Shortly before South Africa accused Israel in the International Court of Justice of committing genocide in its post-Oct. 7 counteroffensive against Hamas, the South African ruling party, the African National...
March 17, 2024
Netanyahu: Halting Gaza War Means Losing It
Halting the Gaza war now would be tantamount to losing it, Israel said on March 17. In a televised statement during his weekly cabinet meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
March 17, 2024
Tehran claims to be ‘self-sufficient’ in building drone engines
Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani said recently that Iran is “designing and manufacturing airplane and drone engines; the country is self-sufficient in this field,” according...
March 17, 2024
Iran’s president wants new focus on artificial intelligence
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held a meeting focusing on “big steps” in the field of artificial intelligence, Iran’s pro-government Tasnim News reported on Sunday. Iran has already invested in...
March 17, 2024
Iran’s far reaching influence: Are the Houthis getting leverage via attacks?
The Iranian-backed Houthis appear to be increasing their influence through their continued attacks on ships in the Red Sea. This is because they have not been deterred, and their attacks have become increasingly...
March 17, 2024
How tensions between Hamas and Fatah could change Gaza
Tensions between Hamas and Fatah, the two largest Palestinian groups, appear to be growing and becoming more openly visible. While the two groups have been rivals historically, the October 7 attack...
March 16, 2024
Losing control of Gaza: Hamas cracks down on civilians with more intensity
Hamas appears to sense that its rule over Gaza is in jeopardy and is returning to its roots as a thuggish, mafia-like organization, cracking down on Gazans who speak out against it and massacring people...
March 16, 2024
Why wasn’t October 7 prevented? Time to look to the West
While Israel will need to investigate its own failures on and leading up to October 7, there is also enough blame to go around Western nations. Hamas is hosted by Qatar, a major non-NATO ally...
March 15, 2024
Gaza-Born Israeli Citizen Commits Terror Attack
Gaza-born Israeli citizen Fadi Abu Latif attacked Israelis on March 14 at a café in the Beit Kama junction, about 20 miles from the Gaza border. Abu Latif stabbed Israel Defense...
March 15, 2024
IDF Strikes Terrorists in Response to Rocket Fire From Gaza
The Israeli military responded to rocket launches from Gaza with airstrikes and artillery, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 15. Hamas rocket fire from Gaza has significantly...
March 15, 2024
Radical transparency is democracy’s secret weapon to counter China
Authoritarian regimes, like China, fundamentally depend upon opacity for their engagement with the global economy. Opacity provides the perfect cover for bribes, illicit finance, and corruption, while...
March 15, 2024
Israel Eyes Rafah Offensive, New Hostage Talks
Israel approved plans for a Rafah offensive on March 15 while signaling openness to renewed Gaza truce talks. After convening his war cabinet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said...
March 15, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 15, 2024
Today’s Issue: Preliminary IDF Findings on Aid Convoy Incident: Gazans Shot at by Palestinian Gunmen | IDF Troops at Checkpoint Arrest Four in Car Carrying Explosive Device, Conduct West Bank Raids |...
March 15, 2024
The Campus Antisemite’s Secret Weapon
Protesters were breaking glass and shouting “Intifada! Intifada!” at Berkeley just a few weeks ago. Following the October 7 terror attack on Israel, antisemites at many American colleges...
March 15, 2024
South African Foreign Minister Vows to Arrest Returning Israeli Soldiers
South Africa will arrest its nationals who fight alongside the Israeli military, Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said on March 10. Speaking at a Palestine solidarity event, Pandor,...
March 15, 2024
First maritime humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza
The first delivery of humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza occurred on March 15. The Israel Defense Forces said that 115 tons of food and water arrived via a barge that was towed to Gaza by a ship called Open...
March 15, 2024
The Big Lies About Israel’s Big Bombs
President Joe Biden says Israel is losing support because of its “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza. He says that Israeli conduct in Gaza has been “over the top.” His secretary of state,...
March 14, 2024
Biden continues Iran’s access to $10 billion just weeks after its proxy killed three American soldiers
Just six weeks after an Iran-backed drone strike killed three American soldiers in Jordan, President Biden has approved a sanctions waiver giving Tehran continued access to more than $10 billion...
March 14, 2024
U.S. Grants Iran Sanctions Waiver Worth $10 Billion
The Biden administration renewed a sanctions waiver on March 13 that grants Iran access to $10 billion in previously escrowed funds. The waiver, which allows the Islamic Republic...
March 14, 2024
The West should tear down Putin’s new digital Iron Curtain
This week, the Kremlin continued pushing through some of the most repressive laws in its modern history. On March 11, Putin signed into law a bill that bans media advertisers from working...
March 14, 2024
China, Russia, and Iran Hold Fifth Trilateral Naval Drill
The naval forces of China, Russia, and Iran are conducting a four-day trilateral drill in the Gulf of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean that started on March 12. The drill’s spokesperson,...
March 14, 2024
Israel Facilitates Entry of Six Aid Trucks Into Northern Gaza
Six trucks of aid from the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) entered northern Gaza on March 12 through a new land route established by the Israeli military. The convoy,...
March 14, 2024
Russia, China, and Iran deepen ties with naval drill
Iran, Russia, and China sent ships that gathered for a naval drill over the weekend. The drill continued this week and illustrates the growing cooperation between the countries. Russia, Iran, and China...
March 14, 2024
How to Ensure Israel Has the Weapons It Needs
March 13, 2024
Palestinian Teen Stabs Two Israelis at West Bank Checkpoint
A Palestinian teen stabbed two Israelis at a checkpoint along a West Bank highway leading to Jerusalem on March 13. Israeli police said in a statement that soldiers from the Israel...
March 13, 2024
Abbas Expected to Name New Prime Minister Within Days
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to appoint a new prime minister within days, according to officials who briefed Israeli media on March 12. On February...
March 13, 2024
Israel Kills Senior Hamas Terrorist in Rafah
Israel killed a senior Hamas terrorist in an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on March 13. Muhammad Abu Hasna, a commander in Hamas’s Operations Unit, had diverted...
March 13, 2024
IDF Strikes Hezbollah Terror Site in Syria
The Israeli military on March 12 struck two Syrian army sites where Hezbollah was operating, according to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The strike was carried out...
March 13, 2024
Israel Kills Hamas Terror Orchestrator in Lebanon
A Lebanon-based Hamas terrorist responsible for orchestrating attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide was killed in an IDF airstrike on March 13. Hadi Ali Mustafa died near...
March 13, 2024
Shabaab retakes territory as the U.S. sanctions one of its money laundering networks
Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, is steadily undoing progress made by Somali security services in its nearly two year old counter-offensive against the group. Over the last few days, the group...
March 13, 2024
US ships begin long, slow trip to build Gaza dock in unique operation
Several small landing craft ships departed the US this week for the long, slow, trip across the Atlantic to eventually reach their destination off the coast of Gaza. According to USNI, “four...
March 13, 2024
IDF Gaza division commander fighting in Gaza tells politicians: Be worthy of us
Brig.-Gen. Dan Goldfus, commander of the IDF’s 98th Division, held a rare press conference on the Gaza border, where he addressed Israeli politicians on Wednesday and said, “We accomplish many achievements...
March 13, 2024
Local Elections Will Soon Decide Turkey’s Future
It has been less than a year since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey’s presidential election and secured a third term in office, which will last until 2028. Turkey’s constitution...
March 13, 2024
Israel SitRep: March 13, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF Has Struck More Than 4,500 Hezbollah Targets Since War Began | Hamas Confirms Death of Lebanese Operative in Airstrike | Stabbing Attack Thwarted at Checkpoint near Jerusalem, IDF...
March 13, 2024
The state of the world
The U.S. Constitution mandates that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union.” The information that President Biden conveyed last week failed...
March 13, 2024
Five Compelling Reasons for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok
Amid escalating concerns over potential Chinese interference in the U.S. election, divesting TikTok from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, offers a balanced, technologically feasible solution that...
March 12, 2024
Israel Thwarts Suicide Attack in West Bank
Israeli forces on March 11 intercepted a Palestinian man who they said was en route to commit a suicide attack in Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet released a...
March 12, 2024
Iranian Official Calls to Expel Israel From Women’s Rights Conference
A senior Iranian official on March 11 called for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to expel Israel from its ranks. In a speech before the commission’s...
March 12, 2024
Going Nuclear on Rosatom
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March 12, 2024
New Maritime Humanitarian Corridor Opens for Gaza
A ship carrying humanitarian aid set sail from Cyprus to Gaza on March 12 as the pilot run for a maritime aid corridor. The pilot ship Open Arms and an accompanying vessel departed...
March 12, 2024
Hamas Warns Gazans Against Cooperating With Israel on Aid Delivery
Palestinians cooperating with Israel to distribute aid in Gaza will be viewed as collaborators and treated with an iron fist, a Hamas-linked website said on March 11. Under Hamas...
March 12, 2024
Another Israeli-U.S. National Killed by Hamas
An Israeli soldier with dual U.S. citizenship was declared dead in absentia on March 12, more than five months after Hamas killed him and took his body to Gaza along with scores...
March 12, 2024
IDF targets Hamas leaders in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces said on March 11 that it had targeted “senior terrorist leaders” in Gaza with an airstrike that took place overnight between March 10 and 11. Among those targeted...
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