IDF tanks in the Rafah crossing precinct (Image: X/ Twitter)
Behind the News – June 2024
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT A rocket and mortar...
Image: IDF
Behind the News – February 2024
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT Between the October 7...
Recent weeks have seen the rei-gnition of intense discussions regarding US efforts to negotiate a Saudi-Israel normalisation deal (Image: Shutterstock, lunopark)
Saudi-Israel deal progress?/ Israel and Erdogan’s Turkey
Update 06/23 #01   This Update deals with...
Erdogan vs. Kilicdaroglu: The former looks all but guaranteed to win a second round on May 29 (Image: Tolga Ildun/ Shutterstock)
What does Turkey’s election mean for Israel?
Turkey’s High Election Board (YSK) declared on May...
Parade Of IRGC Tank Transporters
Iran’s ongoing strategic success across a mercurial Middle East
The recent meeting in Syria between the Saudi...
President Isaac Herzog – scion of one of Israel’s most significant political families – has sought to “put up ladders for everyone to climb down” (Image: Shutterstock)
Herzog forges a new role 
The fight over the Israeli Government’s judicial overhaul...
A new Hezbollah-built observation tower (Image: Efi Shrir)
Behind the News – March 2023
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT Eight rockets were fired...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog paved the way for the latest announcement with his visit to Turkey, and meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, in March (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Talking Turkey
It took years to evolve, but the Turkish...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the 7th summit in Astana format for talks on the Syrian war at a three-way summit overshadowed by fallout from his country's war on Ukraine. Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2022. (Image: SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM/AAP)
Countering the emerging Russia-Turkey-Iran alliance 
Less than a week after US President Joe...
Putin in Teheran with Iranian President Raisi: Building ties between two authoritarian, revisionist regimes (Image: Abbasi Mohammadreza/ATP/SPP/Alamy Live News)
Mr. Putin goes to Teheran
Despite spending five months baiting Ukraine’s leaders as...
Hezbollah's arch terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, assassinated by Israel and US in 2008
Israel successfully neutralising Iran’s global terrorism apparatus
On July 18, 1994, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani: While Qatar may be a nominal US ally, when it comes to terrorism, it is very much part of the problem (Source: Flickr)
To fight terror, confront its abettors
The Biden Administration has been making a significant...
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