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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday initiating the process to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as “foreign terrorist organizations.” In justifying the order, Trump stated that “the military wing of the Lebanese chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions to launch multiple [...]

In June 2025, the US launched Operation Midnight Hammer against three Iranian nuclear sites. Iran retaliated with a missile attack on coalition forces at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Now, four months later, with tensions still high and Iran’s Foreign Minister having urged world leaders on September 19 to “hoose diplomacy over confrontation” because [...]

The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Dr. Morris Tidball-Binz, on Friday called on Lebanese authorities to carry out stronger victim-centered investigations into civilian killings from Israeli hostilities in Lebanon. Violence in the region substantially increased on September 23, 2024, when Israel began heavily striking Lebanon, killing and wounding thousands of [...]

Amnesty International released a statement on Monday calling on the Lebanese government to grant the International Criminal Court (ICC) the jurisdiction to investigate potential war crimes in the country during the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and the Israeli government. It has been one year since the deadliest day in the conflict between the Lebanese-based political [...]

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) called Friday for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to stop launching airstrikes into Southern Lebanon and to “fully withdraw from Lebanese territory,” following strikes on Thursday night which “endangered peacekeepers and civilians.” The IDF reportedly warned civilians in Mais al-Jabal, Kfar Tibnit and Debbin to evacuate their homes. [...]

The concept of messianic multipolarity, as articulated in the context of Russian foreign policy, offers a powerful lens through which to understand the foreign and domestic strategies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Messianic multipolarity fuses a realist multipolar vision of global power—one where multiple centers of influence compete—with a quasi-religious or ideological mission. In [...]

The Israeli military’s extensive destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing released on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Nowhere to Return: Israel’s Extensive Destruction of Southern Lebanon,” documents the demolition of more than 10,000 civilian structures between October 2024 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Wednesday that Israeli forces have occupied and vandalized schools in Lebanon in acts that amounted to war crimes. HRW visited seven schools in Lebanon between January and March, and documented “damage and destruction to the schools as well as the surrounding villages.” HRW cautioned that Israel’s pillaging of Lebanese [...]

“History is an illustrious war against death.” Jose Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Policy Contexts and Legal Obligations Even after defeating Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah on tangible fields of battle, Israel has ample reason to stay vigilant against jihadi terrorism. In essence, Israel’s recent tactical successes have been partial and transient. This is [...]

The October 7 Hamas assault on Israel did not merely mark another round of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; rather, it triggered a deeper and more structural transformation in the security landscape of the Middle East. While the attack exposed tactical vulnerabilities within Israel’s internal security nodes, it simultaneously accelerated the erosion of Iran’s long-standing [...]