The risk of Iranian nuclear proliferation is a serious threat in coming months and Britain and France are working out strategies to prepare for such an event, the head of France’s foreign intelligence service said on Friday. “Our services are working side by side to face what is undoubtedly one of the threats, if … Read more
Saudi Arabia has abandoned its pursuit of an ambitious defense treaty with Washington in return for normalizing relations with Israel and is now pushing for a more modest military cooperation agreement, two Saudi and four Western officials told Reuters. In a drive to get a wide-ranging mutual security treaty over the line earlier this … Read more
in Lebanon there are areas which house over a million displaced Shiites from the suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley, with some even choosing to leave for Iraq and Syria, the Alma Research and Education Center reported on Tuesday. During the early months of the war, up until September this year, … Read more
The IDF released detailed data of Operation Northern Arrows against Hezbollah on Friday, following the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, which took effect early Wednesday morning. According to the data, at least 2,500 terrorists were killed. This number includes Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and 14 senior members of the group’s leadership, including Fuad Shukr, the … Read more
European and Iranian diplomats meet on Friday to discuss whether they can engage in serious talks in the coming weeks to defuse tensions in the region, including over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, before Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The meetings in the Swiss city of Geneva, where world powers and Iran achieved … Read more
After over a year of relentlessly attacking Israel and almost two full months of IDF ground operations in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure embedded within civilian residential areas, the Iran-backed Lebanese terror organization is unlikely to challenge Israel again in the near future. Instead, Hezbollah will most probably focus on damage control and … Read more
Saudi Arabia approved its 2025 budget on Tuesday, projecting a deficit of 101 billion riyals ($26.88 billion), or 2.3% of its GDP. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Finance Minister Mohammed Al Jadaan reaffirmed the kingdom’s commitment to Vision 2030, an ambitious plan to reduce its dependence on oil. Declining … Read more
Russian and Syrian warplanes bombed rebel-held northwest Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday to push back an insurgent offensive that captured territory for the first time in years, the Syrian army and rebel sources said. Rebels led by Islamist terror group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Wednesday began an incursion into a dozen … Read more
A surprise advance by Syrian rebel groups has caught the Syrian regime by surprise. The regime, backed by Iran and Russia, has lost ground near Aleppo. This is the largest setback for the regime and its Iranian backers in many years. Video from Syria shows the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) inside a Syrian … Read more
As the skies fell quiet over Beirut this week, displaced Lebanese piled into cars and headed south for home, but any return to normality remains elusive given their economy was already in freefall even before war broke out last year and no solutions seem at hand. A ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist … Read more
