From seducing nuclear whistleblowers in London to orchestrating assassinations in the heart of Beirut, female Mossad agents stand out in the landscape of modern espionage
Tehran's spies and generals built an impressive network of eyes and ears from Mount Lebanon to the Hindu Kush. In a game of cat-and-mouse, they always seemed two moves ahead. Not so now.
Only with inside knowledge could Israel have killed so many senior figures from Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian military. The axis of resistance needs to face facts: it is completely compromised
Shot and killed in 1988, the details of the operation to kill one of the biggest names in Palestinian politics were made known through accounts from his wife and an Israeli journalist
51 years ago, an elite unit of the Israeli army assassinated Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, Kamal Adwan and Kamal Nasser in a dramatic operation in the upscale Beirut neighbourhood of Verdun
Any agreement that restores traffic through the strait will bring immediate relief, but repairing the damage wrought by war—and restoring confidence—will take far longer
As states race to embed algorithms in systems of reconnaissance, targeting, air defence, and military decision-making, a new layer of risk is taking shape