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The pager attack on Hezbollah was most likely the result of the distribution of booby-trapped communication devices ahead of time through a front company that was controlled (or compromised) by the Israeli Mossad. Nash Weerasekera

By paging Hezbollah, Israel took aim at a chip in Iran’s armour

Actors battling sanctions can't be picky about where the initial product came from. After all, beggars can't afford to be choosers.

Michael Horowitz 22, Sep 2024
Using phones to kill or strike down traditional enemies is not new to Israel. It actually pre-dates both pagers and mobiles. Lina Jaradat

Israel's assassinations via telecoms predate pagers

From letter bombs to car bombs to even chocolate, Israel has a long, sordid history of assassinations and unorthodox ways to carry them out

Sami Moubayed 18, Sep 2024
A billboard portrait of slain leaders Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas (L), Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani (C), and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr (R) on the main road near Beirut Airport on August 3, 2024. Ibrahim Amro/AFP

Betrayed from within: how Israel thoroughly penetrated its enemy

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

Alia Mansour 05, Aug 2024
A Palestinian man walks past a graffiti of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and assassinated Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) deputy leader Khalil al-Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, in Gaza City on August 6, 2009. AFP

Inside Israel's assassination of Abu Jihad, Fatah’s number 2

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

Sami Moubayed 18, Apr 2024
Flag draped coffins of slain Palestinians killed in Israeli raid are taken through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon on April 12, 1973, during the funeral procession. AP

This day in history: Israel takes out key PLO leaders in Beirut

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

Sami Moubayed 09, Apr 2024
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An Israeli soldier stands at an observation post in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, overlooking southern Syria, on March 25, 2025. AFP
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Israel undermines Syria's security, then blames it for the chaos

09 June 2025

It is both incoherent and self-defeating to hold al-Sharaa's government accountable for attacks while simultaneously obstructing its ability to govern and restore order in southern Syria

Haid Haid
The 90-day trade truce is seen in Beijing as but a brief pause to recalibrate strategy in a longer-term Cold War-style rivalry. Ewan White
Business & Economy

US–China trade truce is a pause for breath in a new Cold War

06 June 2025

Donald Trump's tariff blitz was matched by China, so the two quickly agreed a temporary truce in Geneva. Yet the clock is ticking on this pause, which will not be long enough to fix all the issues.

Shirley Ze Yu
 A protester holds a sign reading "There are no universities left in Gaza" amid the commencement ceremony on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Libby O'Neill / AFP
Science & Technology

Campus cacophony: Trump stamps on academic freedoms

01 June 2025

Billions of dollars in federal funding have been withheld from universities where Gaza protests were staged, ostensibly for reasons of antisemitism. What will the impact be?

Khaled Yousri
Lady Evelyn Cobbold, a Scottish aristocrat who converted to Islam and performed the Hajj in 1933, becoming the first British Muslim woman to do so. Getty Images
Culture & Social Affairs

The Orientalists who entered Mecca in disguise

06 June 2025

For centuries, Mecca was the pinnacle of exploration for Western travellers. Shrouded in mystery, it captured the imagination of a small but daring group of European Orientalists

Abdullah Al-Rashid
Troops from the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS) training SDF fighters in Syria's north-eastern Hasakah province on 7 September 2022. Delil Souleiman/AFP
Politics

Exit signs: America’s full withdrawal from Syria seems imminent

07 June 2025

A flurry of decisions suggests that the end is nigh for US troops in Syria, and that this may come sooner than expected. In laying the foundations for withdrawal, Donald Trump wants 'out' by Christmas

Caroline Rose

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