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The region known as the Middle East has been conquered and reconquered by every super power in the West. This has created a region rich in a culture of resistance and thousands of ethnic groups looking for their piece of land. This has created a complicated region and Jpost's Middle East News simplifies it.

 Greek authorities present confiscated guns, money and Captagon amphetamine pills after dismantling a criminal ring near Elefsina, south west of Athens, Greece, March 6, 2017.

Captagon crisis: Middle East’s $5.7 billion drug trade fuels Hezbollah

 Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7, 2024.

Israel outlaws UNWRA, bucking international pressure

 New recruits loyal to Yemen's Houthis march in a military parade marking the anniversary of the Houthis' 2014 takeover of the capital Sanaa, in Sanaa on September 21, 2024.

Is the Houthis new 'submarine' just a recycled US naval drone?

 IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks in a Hezbollah bunker in southern Lebanon.

Chief of Staff Halevi: Hezbollah could've invaded Israel, we caught it in time

 Iranians walk next to an anti-Israel billboard on a street in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024.

How many air-defense systems does Iran have?

 Commuters drive past an anti-Israel billboard covering the facade of a building in Tehran on October 26, 2024.

Radar systems in Iran breached prior to Israel's Saturday counter-strike

 IRAN’S PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the UN General Assembly, last week. The writer asks: Why does Iran look paralyzed with indecision as the IDF continues to cripple Hezbollah?

Playing victim and victor: Iran seeks international condemnation of Israel's strikes

 HEZBOLLAH OPERATIVES salute during the funeral of comrades killed in an Israeli strike, in Shehabiya, south Lebanon, April 17.

Christian Lebanese politician demands gov't say 'enough' to Hezbollah

 Mourners bury the body of Al-Mayadeen TV's cameraman Ghassan Najjar, who was killed the previous day by Israeli bombardment, at a Hezbollah cemetery in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 26, 2024.

Hezbollah beginning to crack: Wave of desertions threatens terror group

 Smoke billows after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, October 23, 2024.

A month into war, Lebanon operation takes toll

 Khatib hosting Hamas leader Bassem Naim for a webinar earlier in 2024.

Operative from terror-designated Samidoun banned from entering Netherlands

 Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William Burns testifies at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to American security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 11, 2024.

CIA Director Burns holds Doha talks on new deal, Egypt pushes mini release

 IAF forces preparing for Israel's retaliation attack against Iran, October 25, 2024.

Israel expects counterattack after hitting Iranian missile production sites

Israeli security personnel works on site of a house damaged after a barrage of rockets was fired from Lebanon into Israel, in Tamra, northern Israel October 27, 2024

Three wounded in barrage of 75 Hezbollah rockets launched into Israel

Military personnel stand guard at a nuclear facility in the Zardanjan area of Isfahan, Iran, April 19, 2024

Killing Iran's nuclear program: Did Israel throw away a golden opportunity?

ran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on a conceptual image of war between Israel and Iran using chess pieces and national flags. (Illsutrative)

Iranian officials to determine how to respond to Israel, Supreme Leader says

 Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs, after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, October 27, 2024.

Israel strikes Beirut suburbs after resident evacuation warnings

 This photo shows a view of Tehran, Iran, Oct. 26, 2024. A number of strong explosions were heard in the Iranian capital Tehran in the early hours of Saturday, state-run IRIB TV reported.

Satellite photos show Israel hit Iran missile fuel-mixing facilities, researchers say

By REUTERS
 IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends Friday prayers and a memorial ceremony for Hassan Nasrallah in Tehran earlier this month.

Iran's Khamenei seriously ill, son likely to be successor as supreme leader

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei behind an X/Twitter background with Hebrew text of 'Shalom' (illustrative)

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei launches Hebrew account on X/Twitter

 A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024.

'Backbone of Iran's missile industry' destroyed by IAF strikes on Islamic Republic

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