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News & Analysis covering the Middle East

Independent, but not unbiased, striving for a multipolar world.

Mainly focused on Iran & Resistance Axis.

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🇾🇪/🇺🇸 NEW: Yemen's Ansarullah have announced that they targeted a U.S. Navy destroyer and three cargo ships: 'Stena Impeccable,' 'Maersk Saratoga,' and 'Liberty Grace,' with 16 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone.

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🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of a complex ambush on Israeli forces, in which they sniped three soldiers, attacked two armored vehicles, and targeted an infantry unit barricaded in a house in Rafah, southern Gaza

This ambush, carried out on November 22, is the first of two ambushes that are part of an operation to retaliate for the killing of Yahya Sinwar, with footage from the second ambush to be released later.

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❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇶/ 🇮🇶 BREAKING: Convoys of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces entered Syria today to aid the Syrian Arab Army in its fight against terrorism

The PMF consists of various different Shiite militias, many of them Iran-backed, that were originally formed to defeat ISIS back in 2014, which they did with great success.

Several of them are also part of the 'Islamic Resistance in Iraq', which has been launching attacks against Israel and US military bases since Israel's invasion of Gaza in 2023.

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There are no American airstrikes in Al-Bukamal, the Syrian Arab Army is shelling the desert in a routine anti-ISIS maneuver.

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🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 NEW: HTS has informed churches in Aleppo that 'the security of Christians will be guaranteed', but that there will be no public Christmas celebrations this year

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'Do not feel lonely on the path of guidance because of the small number of its followers'Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (عليه السلام)
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🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 NEW: HTS terrorists seem to have recaptured Kernaz and Qal'at al-Madheeq from the Syrian Arab Army – but no confirmation yet

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❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇶/ 🇮🇶 BREAKING: SAA-affiliated channels report that thousands of Iraqi Shia volunteer units belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces are now heading towards Syria @Middle_East_Spectator
🇮🇶/ 🇮🇶 NEW: Iraqi authorities confirm that the Popular Mobilization Forces are only present at the Syrian border to secure the crossings and defend Iraqi territory, not to fight inside Syria

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❗️🇮🇱/ 🇱🇧 NEW: After repeated ceasefire violations, Hezbollah warned Israel by launching rockets at the occupied Shebaa Farms – the IDF spokesman says no injuries

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❗️🇮🇱/ 🇱🇧 Hezbollah MP: 'We abide by the ceasefire, but we won't allow Israel to play around with us and take us for a fool – we can return to battle if the enemy continues its aggressive stupidity'

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❗️🇱🇧 /🇮🇱 Hezbollah has released a statement regarding its first attack in almost a week:

'Following the repeated violations initiated by the Israeli enemy of the ceasefire agreement, which was announced to come into effect at dawn on Wednesday, which take various forms, including firing upon civilians and airstrikes in various parts of Lebanon, leading to the martyrdom of citizens and the injury of others, in addition to the continued violation of Lebanese airspace by hostile Israeli aircraft, reaching the capital Beirut, and since the appeals by the relevant authorities to stop these violations did not succeed:

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon carried out an initial warning defensive response this evening, targeting the Ruwaysat al-Alam site belonging to the Israeli enemy army in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shouba Hills.

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🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Two Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, including the town of Yaroun, in yet another violation of the ceasefire agreement

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🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇸🇾 NEW: Brigadier General Javad Ghaffari of the IRGC Quds Force has arrived in Syria to supervise SAA operations and organize the front

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🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇸🇾 NEW: Brigadier General Javad Ghaffari of the IRGC Quds Force has arrived in Syria to supervise SAA operations and organize the front @Middle_East_Spectator
— Fun fact: Brigadier General Ghaffari has been, according to most sources, the Commander-in-Chief of Iran's 'advisory forces' in Syria since 2015. He was a close aide and companion of General Soleimani.

However, his presence and public image was so secretive, that Israeli intelligence estimated that no person called 'Javad Ghaffari' actually existed, and that he was made up by Iran as a diversion.

This was until recently, when his image became slightly more public and his role as the IRGC's overall commander in Syria became a known fact. He carries the nickname 'butcher of ISIS'.

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🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇸🇾 NEW: Brigadier General Javad Ghaffari of the IRGC Quds Force has arrived in Syria to supervise SAA operations and organize the front @Middle_East_Spectator
🇮🇷 🇮🇷 Image: Brigadier General Javad Ghaffari (right), known as the 'Butcher of ISIS', together with Martyr General Soleimani in Syria

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