Warfare

Is 'Purity of Arms' holding the IDF back? Inside Israel’s battle over military ethics

Fighters are expected to avoid harming noncombatants, including civilians, prisoners, and the defenseless, as much as possible, and to maintain their humanity even in the midst of combat.

IDF LEAFLET warns against violence, on a Palestinian car in Hebron, Nov. 2025.
Hezbollah members salute and raise the group's yellow flags during a funeral.

Hezbollah shifts to guerrilla warfare, drone strikes as terror group prepares for prolonged war

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky waits to welcome Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 4, 2025.

Putin’s and Iran’s Caspian Sea plans have backfired. Here’s how – opinion

Anduril Industries, Inc. signage is displayed above the company's booth at Special Operations Forces (SOF) Week at the Tampa Convention Center on May 19, 2026 in Tampa, Florida.

How Anduril's new 'Thunder system' could reshape the future of drone warfare - analysis


Life goes on in Tripoli - but residents wonder for how long

In the center and northern parts of the city, there is no fighting, and cafes and shops bustle with customers, staying open as usual until late at night.

Libyan police in Tripoli

Democratic Republic of Congo troops kill 36 Burundi rebels in east

Reuters was unable to immediately confirm the army report.

congo un rebels 224 ap

After meeting between Aliyev and Pashinyan in Vienna: Peace or war?

Azerbaijan and Armenia try to settle their ongoing conflict.

SERVICEMEN OF the army of Nagorno-Karabakh rest at their positions near the village of Mataghis, yesterday.

Can Israeli intelligence be used to avoid unnecessary wars? - analysis

Academia may be helping depoliticize spy agencies.

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Obstacles to Israel’s strategic objectives

Main insights from the INSS 12th annual international conference

F-35 warplanes doing a flyover in 2018 in Israel.

Islamic scholar says fighting Jews in Israel is a religious mandate

He said that according to religious ruling, all of Israel is “a battlefield between us and the Jews."

Islamic scholar claims religious duty to fight Jews.

Israel might expand covert war against Iran beyond Syria in coming year

A reduction has noted in weapons shipments, funds to Iran’s Syria project

Israeli soldiers stand atop tanks overlooking the border between Israel and Syria

Soldiers speak: IDF tank crew on the role they play in protecting Israel

A lone soldier from Los Angeles, a tank gunner and more speak out about their dedication to protecting the Jewish state in both times of peace and times of war.

Soldiers from the IDF 401th Armored Brigade in training

Balancing Act

Syria barely exists as a state, but Russia is keen to maintain calm there to help Assad keep control, while Iran, already overstretched, does not seem keen on an all-out confrontation with Israel.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu chats with Israeli soldiers at a military outpost during a visit to Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights overlooking the Israel-Syria border in 2015.

The resurfacing of European colonialism

Decolonialism was forced on Europe without preparation. As a result, the continent never went through a process of mental decolonization. Now, is Europe increasingly behaving in neocolonialist ways?

AN OLD map presents Europe in the shape of a queen holding scepter and orb, with Portugal as her crown, Spain as her face, France as her belowthe- neck area, lower Germany and Denmark as her left arm, Italy as her right arm (with Sicily as orb), and the rest of central and eastern Europe as the dres