April 17th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — A closely watched vote in the U.S. Senate this week to block military aid to Israel has failed — but the outcome is being widely viewed as a turning point that exposes deepening divisions in American political support for Israel.
The resolutions, introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, sought to halt the transfer of...
April 17th, 20261A rare and escalating confrontation between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV has exposed deep global divisions over the ongoing war on Iran, placing political power and moral authority on a direct collision course.
At the center of the dispute is a fundamental disagreement over war, diplomacy and the role of religion in global...
April 17th, 20260DEARBORN — In one of the largest public demonstrations in the city since the escalation of Israeli attacks on Lebanon in early March, hundreds of protesters gathered Friday evening, April 10, at Peace Park in west Dearborn to condemn the ongoing assault and what they described as continued attacks against Lebanese civilians despite...
April 17th, 20260Israel’s latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut moves in step with U.S.-Israeli efforts to isolate Hezbollah and weaken Iran’s negotiating position.
In a previous article, we examined the seven messages that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
April 10th, 20260BEIRUT – In one of the deadliest episodes in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990, Israeli airstrikes killed more than 300 people and wounded more than 1,100 in a matter of minutes, according to Lebanese officials, leaving entire neighborhoods in ruins and overwhelming hospitals across Beirut.
The strikes, which hit more...
April 10th, 20261Forty days after refusing to negotiate with the United States, and amid President Trump’s escalating rhetoric and foul language, which reached the level of threatening to erase an entire civilization from the face of the earth, Iran agreed to begin indirect talks with the Americans in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, setting 10 key...
April 4th, 20260Any serious forecast of the future of the Israel–Hezbollah war has to begin with a simple but uncomfortable truth: history does not repeat itself exactly, but in southern Lebanon it comes very close. Israel possesses overwhelming military and technological superiority, yet its past confrontations in Lebanon suggest that this advantage...
March 27th, 20260The war being waged by the United States and Israel against Iran has entered its fifth week, with no real prospect of a near end, amid the high thresholds set by Washington, Tel Aviv and Tehran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon continues to confront Israeli ground incursions south of the Litani River, inflicting heavy losses...
March 27th, 20260The costs associated with any war — losses of lives, treasure and security — are to be expected. And so it is with the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. It was unnecessary. It has been massive. And it has been waged without any clear objective or strategic purpose. Though only a few weeks old, and still too early to project how it will play...
March 20th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — After nearly three weeks of intense military confrontation with Iran, early signs of divergence between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are beginning to surface, raising critical questions about the trajectory of the war, its broader regional consequences and the absence of a clear...
March 20th, 20260WASHINGTON — In the first major rupture within President Trump’s administration over the war on Iran, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned from his post Tuesday, declaring that he could no longer support the conflict and accusing Israel of misleading the United States into war.
Joe Kent becomes the first...
March 20th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S.–Israel war against Iran has entered its fourth week without achieving any meaningful breakthrough in subduing the Islamic Republic, while no clear path toward a near-term resolution has emerged.
Instead, fears are mounting over widening regional consequences and escalating global risks, as President Trump...
March 20th, 20260U.S. "War Secretary" Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether against South Americans or in the Middle East.
In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified...
March 13th, 20260The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution condemning Iranian missile and drone attacks on several Gulf states as the rapidly escalating war between Iran, Israel and the United States spreads across the Middle East, raising fears of a broader regional confrontation and a global economic shock.
The resolution —...
March 13th, 20260Iran is pursuing a multi-layered strategy—military, economic, political, and diplomatic—to raise the cost of war and prevent regime change.
Iran’s strategy in the current war
As the war on Iran continues to expand across multiple fronts, Tehran appears to be pursuing a complex strategy that combines military escalation, economic...
March 6th, 20260The U.S.–Israeli military assault on Iran and its dangerous repercussions across the Middle East sparked a wave of condemnation among Arab and Muslim Americans across the Detroit area. Local leaders called for an immediate halt to the wide-scale military operations to prevent the region from sliding into a broader war that could...
March 6th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected a resolution Thursday that would have forced President Trump to halt military operations against Iran without congressional authorization, highlighting deep divisions in Washington as the conflict threatens to expand across the Middle East.
The measure failed...
November 21st, 20250In the days after October 7, 2023, then-President Biden cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to make the same mistakes the U.S. made following 9/11. Biden never publicly spelled out his meaning, but it was understood as a warning to Netanyahu: Don’t overreact or overreach, as President George W. Bush had done by...
September 19th, 20250After a feeble Arab–Islamic summit that limited itself to verbal condemnations of the Israeli aggression on Doha and vague calls to review diplomatic and economic relations with the occupation state, the Israeli army — under orders from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with an American green light — began an invasion of Gaza...
September 12th, 20250From Gaza and the West Bank to Lebanon, Syria and Yemen — and even reaching Qatar — Israeli arrogance continues to violate Arab lands and their sovereignty without restraint, while the U.S. administration appears either helpless or complicit with Benjamin Netanyahu’s madness. He has escalated his “eternal war” into a new phase...
August 15th, 20250Lebanon’s leaders have just lit a fuse they may not be able to put out. In a move backed and pushed by Washington, the Lebanese government has approved a U.S.-designed plan to disarm Hezbollah by year’s end. The army has been ordered to draft the blueprint, dismantle resistance positions across the country and coordinate with U.N....
July 18th, 20250As ceasefire negotiations in Gaza continue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seized the opportunity to continue his policy of deflection from internal crises, aiming to capitalize as much as possible on the new geopolitical reality created by Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.”
This time, however, he’s doing so through the...
June 27th, 20250On the 12th day of the Israeli–Iranian war, President Trump imposed a cease‑fire between the two countries through a phone call. In that call, it was reported that he chastised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, compelling him to turn Israeli warplanes — already en route to Iran — back to base and swallow Iran’s...
June 19th, 20250
As I write this, President Trump seems deep in his usual dither. Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal, "told senior aides late Tuesday that he approved of attack plans for Iran, but was holding off to see if Tehran would abandon its nuclear program."
So, OK, we're used to that: Tariffs! Wait, no tariffs! Wait, reduced...
April 4th, 20250The Weekly Arab Report by The Arab American News staff
From the expansion of aggression on Gaza, to blatant violations of the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, to the breach of Syrian territory by land and air, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued last week to stoke the flames of war in the Middle East. This comes as a...
