Geostrategy-Direct Iran has clarified its forces are in Syria at the invitation of President Bashar Assad and will remain despite tension over Russia’s insistence that Teheran’s troops should leave (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Russian government is said to have accepted Israel’s demand that Iranian and Iran-backed forces be pulled back from the Israeli frontier. The Kremlin is considering pressing for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct When Iraqis learned the news that Moqtada al-Sadr’s party had topped the ballot in the nation’s recent election, his supporters poured into the streets of Baghdad and chanted (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, who as a “free agent” had called for regime change in Iran, said that is not currently the Trump administration’s policy. “The (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The huge archive of documents on Iran’s extensive nuclear weapons program smuggled out of Teheran by Israeli spies may have ultimately derailed the nuclear deal Iran negotiated with (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A series of airstrikes in Syria late in the evening on April 29 reportedly targeted warehouses storing Iranian missiles. A pro-Assad alliance source told The New York Times (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel pulled its F-15s from a U.S. exercise in Alaska amid increased tension on the Jewish state’s northern border. U.S. Air Force public affairs officer Kitsana Dounglomchan said (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel’s reported attack on a Syrian airbase at which Russia, Iran and Hizbullah all had a presence marks a “turning point” in the region, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel gave the United States advance notice of its April 9 attack on an airbase in Syria but kept Russia in the dark, reports say. Two U.S. officials (more…)