“These are three important countries in the region. We are reviewing our options, but for now, we have not made any decision about joining it,” Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani told journalists in Islamabad on August 20. He was answering a question about…
“Don’t be fooled,” a senior Israeli security source told Al-Monitor on August 21. “Turkey intended to place radar systems and attack drones at the Syrian air force base under Syrian cover. The information is very solid. The Turks know that we know, and the…
“Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless and their country is hanging by a thread,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday evening, August 19. Two hundred words later, in the…
For several weeks the US military has been running 15 to 20 tankers a night through the southern channel of the Strait of Hormuz, hugging the coast of Oman. About 10 million barrels of oil a day reach world markets through that corridor, roughly…
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, told the Security Council on August 19 that the body had become “very good at holding meetings but very bad at making a difference.” Instead of spending its time on Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis,…
A U.S. official told the Washington Post that the intelligence on an Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump was “Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated, and viewed as low confidence.” Israel passed the warning to the CIA before the president left the NATO summit in Ankara on…
What was actually signed on July 22 “We are changing the Middle East and becoming a regional power,” Netanyahu said in March 2026, at his first press conference after the war with Iran began. He repeated the formula all year, and it had a…
In the Knesset today, opposition leader Yair Lapid declared: “Russia and Iran are running influence operations against the Israeli public in the run-up to the election.” The theme of a future stolen election is being introduced not by a fringe voice but by the…
Ben-Gurion’s peripheral doctrine — leaning on the non-Arab periphery (Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia) against the Arab environment — has stopped functioning as a strategic frame for Israeli security. Two of its load-bearing states, Iran and Turkey, have become the cores of two axes of resistance…
Trump is dismantling the Iranian axis — and with the same motion strengthening the Turkish one, which openly names Israel a threat On June 24, the Trump administration notified Congress of its intent to sell Turkey a batch of General Electric F110 aircraft engines…