By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israel carried out 200 airstrikes in Syria in a year and a half, according to a senior IDF source, The Jerusalem Post and Ynet reported. The reports […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN What was far-right religious leader Louis Farrakhan doing at Aretha Franklin’s funeral? The Forward asked this question, but most major media has sought to not discuss the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Yossi Beilin, who played a leading role in initiating the Oslo peace process suggested at Al-Monitor that Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas “hand back the keys” […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The US is concerned that Hadi al-Amiri’s Fatah Alliance will form the next government in Iraq. After it came in second in the elections in May […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The US under President Donald Trump is cutting aid to Palestinians, the full results of those cuts are not clear. Nevertheless there is a lot of […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi reportedly lashed out at Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a key commander in the Hashd al-Shaabi, the Popular Mobilization Forces of mostly Shia […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A recent report says that 63,012 Russian personnel served in Syria since 2015 when Russia intervened significantly to support the regime of Bashar al-Assad. This has […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In the wake of the Manafort conviction and the Cohen plea deal, US President Donald Trump’s web of friends, loyalists and former lawyers, colleagues and campaign […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, likes to use Twitter. 9,246 times in English so far since he joined in 2009. He mostly tweets in […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The National Defense Authorization Act that US President Donald Trump signed today (August 13) at a signing ceremony at Fort Drum, NY includes almost 100 references […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 