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Libya is making more money than ever; That’s why it can’t move forward

Record oil revenues, a $20B foreign investment deal, a warlord's son skimming $3B dollars off the state, and Western energy companies looking the other way; The boom making everyone celebrate is the boom making Libya impossible to fix

Amine Ayoub | 06.13.26

נשיא טורקיה בטקס מסירת כלי שיט צבאיים לחיל הים הטורקי

Saudi Arabia, Syria and Erdogan's new Ottoman trade empire

Analysis: As Riyadh signs a landmark rail corridor deal with Ankara and Turkish banks prepare to open across Syria, Israel's enemies are not the only ones reshaping the Middle East

Amine Ayoub | 06.11.26

כינוס חירום של הליגה הערבית שהתקיים בקהיר, וזכה לשם "פסגת פלסטין"

The Arab League built itself to destroy Israel, it destroyed itself instead

Analysis: Nabil Fahmy inherits financial ruin, a structural vacuum and a regional architecture that has already moved on without him

Amine Ayoub | 06.09.26

נשיא רוסיה פוטין עם נשיא מצרים עבד אל-פתאח א-סיסי לקראת מצעד ניצחון במוסקבה

Russia is building a nuclear beachhead in Egypt

Analysis: Russia’s role in Egypt’s Dabaa nuclear plant is less about energy than leverage and Israel is the point; it binds Cairo to Moscow and reshapes Israel’s southern strategic flank

Amine Ayoub | 06.07.26

בניין בעיר כווית סיטי שנפגע מכטב"ם איראני

Missiles, bread and water: how Iran held the Arab world hostage

Analysis: Iran’s attacks on desalination plants, airports and energy infrastructure exposed the Gulf’s vulnerabilities, disrupting food supplies, driving up prices and threatening the livelihoods of millions from the Gulf states to Egypt and Jordan

Amine Ayoub | 06.05.26

Why Iran fired missiles at Kuwait Airport to threaten Israel and the US

Analysis: the old model of fighting through proxies, hiding behind plausible deniability, and calibrating aggression to stay just below the threshold of direct retaliation is finished

Amine Ayoub | 06.03.26

Turkey just did what Iran spent 20 years trying to do

Analysis: at EFES-2026, Turkey hosted Libyan and Syrian troops for the first time, signaling an expanding Turkish military network from Tripoli to Damascus that could challenge Israel’s regional posture

Amine Ayoub | 06.01.26

In this file photo taken on April 30, 2019, Iranian soldiers take part in the 'National Persian Gulf Day' in the Strait of Hormuz

The Litani is no longer the frontier: why Israel's security now starts at the Strait of Hormuz

Opinion: Iran’s Hormuz threat, not the Litani front, may shape US limits on Israel’s Lebanon campaign as Washington prioritizes Gulf oil stability

Amine Ayoub | 05.30.26

חצי חצאים א-סיסי נשיא מצרים ו ביבי בנימין נתניהו

Egypt is in the Gulf, but it just won't fight alongside Israel — and Iran knows it

Analysis: Egypt is deploying forces to defend Gulf states but refuses open integration with a US-Israel regional defense network, leaving gaps that Iran can exploit and limiting Cairo’s value as a security partner

Amine Ayoub | 05.28.26

פעילי המשט לעזה נעצרים על ידי משטרת בילבאו בחזרתם למדינה

Spain beats its own Gaza ‘heroes.’ Where is Sanchez now?

Opinion: Madrid praised the Gaza flotilla activists as victims of Israeli cruelty, then stayed silent when Spanish police beat them at home, exposing Europe’s performative outrage against Israel

Amine Ayoub | 05.25.26

Why Gaza’s civilian rule cannot begin while Hamas still holds weapons and power

Opinion: A US-backed postwar plan for Gaza remains frozen as Hamas retains arms and coercive power, leaving the proposed civilian authority unable to enter or govern the territory

Amine Ayoub | 05.24.26

Iran is winning by losing: how Tehran turned Gulf victims into its biggest lobbyists

Opinion: Tehran has learned it can strike Gulf states, then rely on their fear of wider war to restrain Washington, turning ceasefire diplomacy into a tool for delay, recovery and leverage

Amine Ayoub | 05.20.26

Paris opens the file MBS thought he'd buried

Opinion: French probe into murder of Jamal Khashoggi renews scrutiny of Saudi crown prince, raising tough questions for Israel over normalization with Riyadh and its strategic bet on a royal who operates outside any legal or diplomatic boundary

Amine Ayoub | 05.18.26

נשיא סוריה אחמד א-שרע בפגישה עם נשיא ארה"ב דונלד טראמפ בבית הלבן

Washington gave the Islamists Syria, and now it's giving them Chevron

Opinion: Syria’s sudden return to global finance and energy markets marks a historic turn, but the West may be betting billions on Ahmed al-Sharaa’s reinvention before securing the guarantees it needs

Amine Ayoub | 05.15.26

Spain fights jihadists at home—then shields Iran abroad

Opinion: Pedro Sanchez’s refusal to allow US aircraft to use Spanish bases exposed a deeper contradiction in Madrid’s policy: confronting Islamist extremism domestically while taking positions that undercut Israel and US strategy against Iran

Amine Ayoub | 05.10.26