Israel and Lebanon have now finalized a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. As JINSA argued in its November 20 report, Suppressing Iran’s Ring of Fire in Lebanon, a strong deal, in addition to ending major hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, could allow…
Turkey’s foreign policy is, once again, exhibiting the activist but Janus-like tendencies that have defined the more than two decades under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On the one hand, in just the last week, Turkey announced it would sever relations…
On Thursday, months after first threatening to do so, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, charging them with war crimes. JINSA hosted a conversation on the illegitimacy…
Israeli operations in the north continue to degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities, yet the terrorist group has maintained the ability to return fire with lethal effect, even as negotiations towards a ceasefire continue. Talks towards a deal in Gaza, however, have been…
President-elect Donald Trump will be returning to the White House at a critical moment for the Middle East. Iran is on the precipice of nuclear weapons capability and expected to attack Israel directly for the third time in seven months.…
October 31 marked one of the deadliest days for Israel in the current front against Hezbollah, with seven civilians killed in rocket attacks amid reports that ceasefire talks in the north have stalled. Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continues…
On early Saturday morning local time, over 100 Israeli military aircraft carried out three waves of air strikes inside Iran, in addition to hitting air defenses along the way in Syria and Iraq. The attack, which targeted military bases and…
As Israeli forces continue to fight Iran and its axis of resistance on multiple fronts, a letter this week from Secretaries of Defense and State Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken starkly warned that if Israel did not increase humanitarian aid…
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Thursday, October 17 that its soldiers killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was considered the main force behind Hamas’s brutal attack against Israel on October 7. Sinwar’s death is a significant achievement and a…
Israel is preparing its response to Iran’s massive ballistic missile attack against it on October 1, which could potentially involve striking Iran’s military, oil, or nuclear facilities, while the United States has demanded that any Israeli response be “proportional.” Despite…