The special US military operation in Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife have upended the global chessboard. What is behind Donald Trump’s interest in Greenland, the mounting tension with Colombia, and the war on drugs flowing from Mexico?
The document alleges that Maduro’s activities began long before he assumed the presidency. Detailed filing outlines partnership with FARC and Tren de Aragua to export massive cocaine shipments.
Maduro had been rotating between several locations, and the US often lacked confirmation of his whereabouts until late at night. Delta Force troops rehearsed the extraction in a Kentucky replica of Maduro's compound, practicing breaches of steel doors at high speeds.
He has long claimed that he has Sephardi ancestry. How the former bus driver became Trump's archenemy.
Protests that erupted in Iran over the country’s deepening economic crisis have spread from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to other cities. Yet the regime has weathered severe internal crises in the past. What, then, would genuinely alarm Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the clerical establishment?
As Israel heads toward addressing the dramatic challenges facing it in the Middle East, chief among them Iran, it is accompanied by a highly supportive US administration that is nonetheless internally divided. At the same time, senior officials in Washington believe there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch positive moves that could pull the entire region in a better direction.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed his plan to establish a “national committee” to investigate the events of October 7, saying it would be “balanced, broad and clean.” Although he compared the move to the US investigation of the September 11 attacks, a review of the facts reveals three significant gaps between the American commission and the model Netanyahu is promoting.
The operation was coordinated with the US and explained as consistent with the ceasefire framework because Haytham 'Ali Tabataba'i continued directing terrorist activity. Israel’s assessment is that Hezbollah will not respond.
Haytham ‘Ali Tabataba’i, defined as "Hezbollah's chief of staff," commanded the organization's special forces in Syria and Yemen, and collaborated with pro-Iranian militias. Already in 2016 he was defined as an international terrorist: "His actions are part of a major effort to cause instability in the region."
The Saudi crown prince’s return to the White House signals a renewed US-Saudi partnership, with talks expected to focus on advanced weapons sales, nuclear cooperation, regional tensions with Iran and Trump’s push to bring Riyadh into the Abraham Accords.
