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Aug 23, 2024, 7:45 AM

Under Sinwar, Hamas Has Chosen to be an Iranian Satellite Like Hezbollah

Head of the political wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar attends a rally in support of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in Gaza City on October 1, 2022. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

After lengthy negotiations in Doha, Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as its new Political chief, replacing Ismail Haniyeh who was assassinated in Tehran. Since 2017, Sinwar has served as the group's leader inside the Gaza strip. He now becomes...

Jul 12, 2024, 5:36 AM

Erdogan just used the Syrian conflict

For quite some time now tensions have been rising in the Syrian opposition-held areas over Turkish moves towards rapprochement with Syria. The recent violence against Syrians in Turkey acted as a catalyst and sparked retaliatory riots in opposition-held areas...

Jun 24, 2024, 3:26 AM

Hezbollah Going To be a Tough Opponent for Tel Aviv

In the past few weeks thousands of rockets fired by Hezbollah at northern areas of Israel have resulted in considerable damage to civilian properties and military sites. This heavy rocket and UAV barrage from Hezbollah has forced around 80,000...

Jun 6, 2024, 10:05 AM

Pakistan Should Realise That Taliban is Out of its Orbit

Recently again Taliban fighters and Pakistani Army fought each other on Durand Line. The clashes erupted on May 13 after the Pakistani side began repairing the barbed-wire fence it first erected in 2017 to demarcate the Durand Line border....

May 9, 2024, 12:02 PM

Pakistani Generals Forced Baloch’s to Pick Arms

Photo Credit-BLF Media Wing (Aashob Media)

Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a low-level insurgency and a brutal military crackdown for decades. However, the vast and resource-rich province has witnessed a surge in deadly attacks in recent times. Pakistan’s largest province...

Apr 15, 2024, 8:23 AM

Iran Revolutionary Guards holding Syria as a hostage

Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and his deputy General Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi were killed in an airstrike attributed to Israel on the Iranian consulate in...

Apr 1, 2024, 11:06 PM

Baghuz Marked Territorial Defeat of IS, But It’s Still a Potent Threat

This year it was the fifth anniversary of the liberation of the Baghuz town in Deir ez-Zor governorate which literally marked the territorial defeat of the Islamic State and its so-called caliphate. In early 2019, the Syrian Democratic Forces...

Mar 7, 2024, 11:37 AM

Durand Line a Tool to Deceit Afghans

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Last month the Taliban's Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai while attending a public program said that there is an absence of an official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He further said that Afghanistan will never recognize the...

Jan 13, 2024, 5:23 PM

Qassem Soleimani’s Quds Force a Threat to The Region

Recently multiple bomb blasts rocked Iran's south-central city of Kerman near the cemetery where Qassem Soleimani, the slain commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force (QF), is buried. Initially, it was anticipated that Israeli intelligence agencies...

Dec 29, 2023, 4:03 PM

Iran Dragging Syria Into Another War

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its all-time favorite Hezbollah have directly fought in Syria in support of the Assad regime since 2012. Iranians militarily and economically have heavily invested in Syria as the view from Tehran is...

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Manish Rai is a columnist for the Middle East and Af-Pak region; Editor of a geo-political news agency Views Around (VA)