8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (334+ words) Keeping his private Twitter account and his JVP Twitter accounts separate proved too much for Bazian, and his cover was blown. Ilan Berman noted that Bazian’s screw-up should have proved embarrassing for him but instead probably “will be forgotten immediately....

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (128+ words) Alireza Arafi is the third member of Iran’s transitional council following U.S. and Israel airstrikes in February 2026. Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Like his teachers and most others who attain ijtihad rank, Arafi has never held governmental…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (176+ words) The coast of the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb, Yemen. While clashes between the Houthis and Tihama Resistance forces occur on a near-daily basis, the attacks on the morning of Eid al-Fitr marked an escalation. The Houthis fortified their positions on…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (532+ words) Lebanon’s parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri during a 2019 visit to Iraq. Media office of the Prime Minister of Iraq, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons After Israel’s “Operation Grim Beeper” neutered Hezbollah, and then an Israeli bunker-buster killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah,…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (139+ words) Middle East Forum January 2, 2026 | “Somaliland: Key Player in a Key Location” with Bashir Goth Israel’s recognition of Somaliland’s independence on December 26,2025has brought attention to the contest in the strategically vital Horn of Africa area. Somaliland has functioned as a de…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (244+ words) The assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on 28 February 2026, plunged the Islamic Republic of Iran into its most profound leadership crisis and potential regime-shaking transition since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (216+ words) © European Union, 1998–2026, via Wikimedia Commons For U.S. ambassadors and secretaries of State, Berri has been a common interlocutor, a Shi’i with whom the United States could talk without speaking to Hezbollah, a designated terror group. While President Donald Trump…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (165+ words) Middle East Forum May 4, 2026 | “How Hezbollah Makes Peace between Lebanon and Israel Impossible” with Dr. Ibtissam Klait Some in the foreign policy world have claimed that the U.S./Israel war with the Islamic Republic of Iran will benefit China…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (808+ words) The whole episode is a textbook example of how history gets cherry-picked: The bits that fit the desired story are shouted from the rooftops, while the inconvenient ones are quietly swept under the rug—all to keep the current political…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (906+ words) The Zionist project is entirely built on Palestinian extermination. Suleiman—who has more than 500,000 followers on YouTube and a million followers on X—then suggests in the April 15, 2026, video that the designation will only draw more attention to the accusations…...