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Latest Articles
An Israel Defense Forces M109 artillery cannon.
Middle East Forum Observer
Israel Seeks to Fill Defense Production Shortfalls Exposed by War
Democracies Increasingly Recognize That Global Supply Chains Are Liabilities During Prolonged Conflicts
June 27, 2026
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Aaron J. Shuster
Secretary Marco Rubio meets with Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council Member States in Manama, Bahrain, June 25, 2026. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)
Middle East Forum Online
The United States Lost Both the War and the Negotiation
America Didn’t Achieve a Single One of Its Aims in Iran
June 26, 2026
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Saeid Golkar
An F-35C Lightning II, attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury, March 4, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo)
Middle East Forum Online
The Iran-Israel War: A Perspective from Iran
An Interview with a Contact Who Resides in the Iranian City of Qom
June 26, 2026
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
More from MEF
Israel’s new Alumot unit is designed to move artificial-intelligence tools directly from development to frontline forces while Washington debates how deeply to institutionalize U.S.-Israel defense-technology cooperation.
Middle East Forum Online
The U.S. Can Debate AI Integration; Israel Has Already Operationalized It
Israel’s Alumot Unit Turns Battlefield AI From Research Into Real-Time Combat Capability
June 26, 2026
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Amine Ayoub
U.S. and Kenyan defense officials at the construction site for a runway expansion and airfield infrastructure project in January 2026, at Manda Bay, Kenya.
Middle East Forum Observer
Will Kenya Supplant Djibouti as the Pentagon’s Counter-Terror Hub?
Washington Is Expanding Its Military Footprint with a $71 Million Overhaul of the Manda Bay Airfield in Kenya
June 26, 2026
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Siyad Madey
Tehran is determined to link the two fronts (i.e., Iran/Hormuz and Lebanon), insisting that failure in one means failure in both. Iran hopes by so doing to formalize a mechanism by which it can both protect its main Levantine proxy and create and widen divisions between Washington and Jerusalem. Image: an Israeli air strike in Marjayoun, Lebanon on April 1, 2026.
Middle East Forum Online
Can Israel Fend off Hezbollah Without Alienating America?
Israel Has Sought Throughout to Detach Its Battle with the Iranian Proxy Group Hezbollah in Lebanon from the Negotiations
June 25, 2026
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Jonathan Spyer
Part political thriller and part moral reckoning, The Closing Window examines what happens when strategy leaves the conference room and lands on the shoulders of ordinary people.
Press Releases
Gregg Roman Releases New Literary Espionage Thriller—The Closing Window
In His Debut Thriller, Middle East Forum Executive Director Gregg Roman Follows an Air-Defense Colonel, a Labor Organizer, and a Nurse Trapped Inside a Fragile U.S.-Iran Ceasefire—And the 60-Day Clock Counting Down on the People Peace Left Behind
June 25, 2026
Federal prosecutors allege that members of the University of Michigan’s “Student Intifada” used threats, intimidation, and property destruction—conduct major newspapers have repeatedly framed as pro-Palestinian activism and a free-speech dispute.
Middle East Forum Online
The Media Minimizes University of Michigan’s Student Intifada
What the Coverage Leaves Out About the University of Michigan Indictments
June 25, 2026
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A.J. Caschetta
The Strasbourg Judicial Court dismissed the defamation and religious discrimination lawsuit filed by Iman El Feki against French Muslim Brotherhood expert Florence Bergeaud-Blackler.
FWI News
Strasbourg Court Axes Defamation Case Targeting Top Expert on the Muslim Brotherhood
Lawsuit Sought to Silence Scholar Exposing Islamist Infiltration in French Universities
June 25, 2026
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Jules Gomes
FWI News
U.K. Muslim Police Association Urged End to ‘Islamist’ and ‘Jihadist’ Labels
Top Official Defends Hamas, Vilifies Israeli Army as ‘Zionist Terrorist Group’
June 25, 2026
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Jules Gomes
The Iran national football team is governed by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran.
Middle East Forum Observer
The Revolutionary Guard Has Infiltrated Iranian Soccer. The U.S. Was Right to Limit Visas
The Islamic Republic Uses the Men’s National Soccer Team to Promote Propaganda and to Enforce Political Compliance
June 25, 2026
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Joseph D’Hippolito
Pope Leo XIV appears at the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City in May 2025.
Middle East Forum Observer
Catholic Zionists Press Pope Leo XIV for Magisterial Declaration on Israel
Theologians Highlight Vilification of Israel by High-Profile Antisemitic Catholic Influencers
June 25, 2026
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Jules Gomes
A street scene in Baghdad, Iraq.
Middle East Forum Observer
The Real Metrics to Determine if Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi Upholds His Reform Agenda
His Government Emerged from the Same Forces That Have Run Iraq for Two Decades, Under the Supervision of Iran’s Qods Force
June 25, 2026
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Ali Mahmoud