Category: Middle East
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Who wins the Iran war?
On February 28th, a new war broke out between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other. It has until now consisted of two parallel bombing campaigns: a US-Israeli bombing campaign on Iran, and an Iranian bombing campaign on most of the Middle East. The US and Israel have been preparing…
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Who must go?
Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime just collapsed. After 24 years in power and 13 years of civil war, Assad would fall to an opposition offensive that lasted just 11 days. The opposition advances were so fast that they have forced me to do rewrites on most of the article, with Damascus falling before I was able…
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Iran’s international influence
In the background of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas there have been increasingly escalating tensions between the United States on one hand and a series of “Iranian proxies” on the other, chiefly the Ansar Allah party in Yemen (commonly known by the name of the group from which many of their members originate,…