... partnership produced highly contradictory outcomes: it triggered an explosive rise in anti-American sentiment across Yemini society, while simultaneously projecting the appearance of strengthening Yemen's status in the region—even as a potential competitor—and ... ..., President Saleh declared war on the Houthis after their refusal to cease chanting the slogan “Death to America! Death to Israel! Curse the Jews! Victory to Islam!”— a phrase that had become both a symbol of the movement and the quintessential ...
... stands on the brink of humanitarian disaster: tens of thousands of people dead, mass displacement, collapsing infrastructure, famine and outbreaks of disease.
Conflict dynamics
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, with Hamas's surprise attack on Israel. In response, the Israeli army launched a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip and imposed a complete blockade on the territory. Within the first months of hostilities, the humanitarian cost was severe: by late 2023, the death toll ...
... significant strings attached. Trump expects the new Syrian authorities to take steps that are quite problematic for them. For example, during a surprise meeting with Syria’s new president on May 14, the U.S. leader
urged
him to normalize relations with Israel (potentially by joining the Abraham Accords or striking a new deal). This is a particularly difficult move, as it is likely to provoke a backlash from radicals within HTS and even among ordinary Syrians, potentially leading to a new escalation ...
... establishing federalism is not exclusively an Iraqi initiative; instead, it can be associated with international and regional strategies that aim to reorganize Baghdad's political system to suit certain needs of certain actors. The United States, Iran, and Israel view such a reform as an instrument that could be used to further their own interests. In the main centers of decision-making, the questions were not if federalism will occur but rather when, how, and who would gain the most from restructuring ...
... gradual economic recovery. However, Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025 meant a new wave of threats. In his first month back in office, Trump
gave
Iran a two-month deadline to make concessions or face a firm response.
The second reason is Israel’s aggressive and expansionist policy. Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, long
described
Israel as a colonial-settler project created by the West, inherently driven to expand by seizing territory from neighboring Muslim ...
... with their own blood for the decisions of the political and military elite leading to a major regional war. In any case, the victory of the only “reformist” candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, in the recent presidential election is a clear signal from society to the leadership of the Islamic Republic that people want peace, stability and economic development, rather than new military exploits or social and political upheavals that invariably accompany them.
Even Israel—for all the outward determination of the current cabinet to see things through to the end—is no exception to this rule. The costs of the Gaza operation have already topped $60 billion, a staggering sum for a relatively small country, meaning ...
