Former MI6 chief warns of a shadow war between Israel and Iran.
Israel is locked into a “shadow war” with Iran which could lead to a widening regional war in the Middle East, a former head of MI6 has revealed.Sir Alex Younger, the former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also said…
Iran Has Vowed to Retaliate in The Wake of an Israeli Air Strike Which Killed a Senior Revolutionary Guards Force Commander
Tehran has vowed to retaliate after accusing Israel of carrying out an airstrike on the Iranian consulate building in Syria in which seven members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed. Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the elite Quds…
The World Is Becoming Increasingly Fragile, US Spy Chiefs Say in Their Annual Threat Assessment
The United States faces an “increasingly fragile world order,” strained by great power competition, transnational challenges and regional conflicts, intelligence agencies have stated. The disclosures emerged in the 2024 Annual Threat Assessment report issued by the US Intelligence Community on…
Iran Is Set to Become One of the World’s Leading Arms Dealers
Iran is set to become one of the largest suppliers of weapons within the next decade, western intelligence agencies believe. The Islamic republic sold around 1bn USD worth of weaponry to a variety of countries around the world in 2022/23,…
Netanyahu orders evacuation of Rafah and US retaliatory strikes against Yemeni Houthi targets continue
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday he has instructed the military to formulate a two-fold plan to evacuate civilians from the city of Rafah, the last neighbourhood where Gazans have sought refuge – and to defeat the remaining Hamas…
Exclusive: Senior Research Fellow Martin Plaut on China, Russia and keeping the Red Sea open
The United States and Britain have carried out strikes against targets linked to Houthis in Yemen. It’s the first time strikes have been launched against the Iran-backed group since it started targeting international shipping in the Red Sea late last year. An international…
Profile on Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force.
The CIA assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s notorious Quds Force, in a drone attack in 2020 was designed to send a message to Iran’s most powerful leaders. Washington wanted Tehran’s ruling elite – those religious…
Biden to receive bodies of US service members killed in Jordan attack by radical Iran-backed militias and US response to widen
President Biden on Friday at 1:30 pm ET will oversee the transfer of the bodies of three American service members who lost their lives in a drone attack carried out by Iran-backed militants last Sunday at an air base in…
Exclusive: Sir Graeme Lamb Writes on Russia and Iran: An Unwelcome Alliance
The past will not tell you what is about to happen but it can point you in the right direction of what you might expect to unfold, and yet we in the West are so wrapped up in the day-to-day…
Iran Is Secretly Supplying Combat Drones To The Sudanese Army
Iran has secretly supplied Sudan’s armed forces with combat drones in a new intervention which risks further destabilising the region. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has been equipped with the Mohajer-6, a single-engine unmanned aircraft which can carry up to…
