Tag Archives: Ansarallah

The West Needs a Strategy to Counter Iran’s “Ring of Fire”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2024

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The Evidence is Now Clear: Iran Was Behind Every Aspect of the October 7 Pogrom in Israel

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 January 2024

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The Strikes in Yemen Avoid the Real Issue: Iran

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 January 2024

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Islamic State Khorasan Province is Looking More Dangerous

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 January 2024

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Iran Was Behind the Massacre in Israel

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2023

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Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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The Third Speech of Islamic State Spokesman Abu Umar al-Muhajir

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2022

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United Nations Report Finds Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Reduced, But Reviving

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 July 2022

Islamic State in Palmyra, December 2016

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Spywar and Strategy: The Israel-Iran Contest in the Middle East

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 June 2021

Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, at a memorial in Gaza, 31 January 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib, Flash90.

The May 2021 round of fighting in Gaza brought with it the upending of the unspoken understanding between Israel and Hamas and a level of intercommunal violence within Israel that has not been seen in quite some time. The scale of the rocket attacks on the Jewish state must also be counted among the unusual elements of this latest flare-up, with Iran clearly identifiable as the enabling state behind Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the two primary factions behind these attacks. Continue reading