Category: Middle East

Israel’s Shayetet 13 is considered one of the best trained Special Operations units in the world, its activities are shrouded in secrecy.

Midhat Saleh is believed to have been working for Iran and plotting terrorist activities. But there may be more to the killing than meets the eye.

The regional balance allows Iran to move its pieces against the Golan Heights. Israel is determined to stop that and aims to repopulate the area.

“Ali Atwa will always be remembered, even by the family and friends that celebrated his death, as an incompetent fool.”

Despite the Biden administration’s intent to withdraw from the Middle East the U.S. still supports its regional allies.

“Remember that name… Fakhrizadeh” former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu had said. Two years later, the scientist would be killed by a robotic gun.

Despite Democratic efforts to ignore them, the Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and a number of Arab states in the region.

A fake airliner, a Czech Frankenstein monster version of the Nazis’ Me 109, and a handful of maverick pilots wrote one of history’s unlikeliest pages.

“This was an attack meant to send a message. Clearly, we could do much more, and we hope we won’t arrive at that,” the Israeli Defense Minister said.

There I was, on the border of Iraq, butt naked, struggling to get a new belt on our Bradley, while rockets and artillery lighted up the sky.

“There is no justification for this attack, which follows a pattern of attacks and other belligerent behavior,” Secretary Blinken said.

In a potential conflict against Iran, what will American pilots face in the battle for supremacy over the Middle Eastern skies?