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Middle East military briefing

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East conflict
    How all-out war between Israel and its adversaries might play out

    Country’s military capabilities have evolved since it last fought Hizbollah but so have those of the Iran-backed ‘axis of resistance’

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel says it killed Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif

    IDF strikes last month targeted militant who masterminded October 7 attack

    Palestinians evacuating a body from a site hit by Israeli bombardment on Khan Youniz, Gaza Strip, on July 13 2024
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East conflict
    Military briefing: the Israeli missiles used to strike Iran

    Wreckage photographed in Iraq indicates how Israeli jets hit back at Tehran from afar

  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    News in-depth
    Ukraine’s air defence struggle highlights risks to Israel

    Full-scale conflict has depleted Ukrainian defences, and Israel could face a similar plight despite successful interceptions

  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    A glow-up for China’s state-owned enterprises

    Beijing reforms unloved SOEs to win back investors

  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East conflict
    Military briefing: Israel’s options to strike Iran

    Whatever form direct retaliation takes, analysts warn there is a high risk of miscalculation — and further escalation

    Israeli fighter jets; attack on Iranian consulate in Damascus, laptop cyberattack; Israeli flares above Gaza
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    News in-depth
    The battle that betrays Israel’s war plan

    Israel’s second raid on al-Shifa hospital has put its military strategy under the spotlight

    Montage of Isaeli soldiers and Hamas fighters
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
    News in-depth
    Military briefing: can the US and its allies stop the Houthis?

    Joint American and UK attack sent a message but there are doubts whether battle-hardened Yemeni rebels can be cowed

  • Saturday, 9 December, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Military briefing: the battle for Khan Younis

    Israeli forces in Gaza target Hamas stronghold in the south now crowded with refugees

    Palestinians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Military briefing: the Israeli bombs raining on Gaza

    From precision missiles to 2,000lb explosives, Israel’s air campaign is one of the heaviest in history

    Montage of destroyed buildings in Gaza, a map of Gaza strip, and a fighter jet
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    News in-depth
    How Israel is attacking Hamas’s vast tunnel network

    Subterranean labyrinth thought to be larger than London Underground holds key to Israel’s offensive in Gaza

    Militants in Gaza look inside a tunnel
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    News in-depth
    How Israel’s spymasters misread Hamas

    Overconfident intelligence agencies missed multiple warnings before October 7 attacks in a ‘failure of imagination’

    A FT montage of a barbed wire fence on the screen of a laptop with a surveillance camera and satellite dish in the foreground
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    News in-depth
    The battle for Gaza City

    Ground invasion exposes Israeli troops to close combat in an urban environment against dug-in Hamas fighters

    A montage of an Israeli soldier gesturing while manning the machine gun turret atop an armoured personnel carrier and a map of Gaza
  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Military briefing: How Hamas fights

    Faced with Israel’s tech superiority, the militant group has turned Gaza into a haven for guerrilla war

    Hamas fighters take part in a military parade
  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    The tactics behind Israel’s ground offensive

    Gaza incursion’s limited initial scope helps IDF use firepower advantage against Hamas while minimising risk

    Merkava tanks take position along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip
  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    Military briefing: Israel’s devastating bombing campaign in Gaza

    IDF seeks to take out Hamas’s leaders while keeping hostages alive and maintaining international support

    Smoke rises above buildings during an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip (left). People gather amid the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Gaza City (right)
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    Military briefing: Battle for Mosul points to IDF’s ‘fiendish’ task in Gaza

    Israeli military likely to face houses rigged to explode, fighters wearing civilian clothes and weapons stored in mosques

    Gaza, left, Mosul 2017, right
  • Friday, 13 October, 2023
    Military briefing: the shape of a Gaza invasion

    Analysts see Israel’s bombardment of coastal enclave as prelude to ground incursion, possibly within days

    Israeli army tanks and vehicles deploy along the border with the Gaza Strip on Friday
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    ‘Everything you can imagine and worse’ awaits Israeli army in Gaza

    Potential ground offensive to root out Hamas militants will test IDF’s urban warfare skills

    Israeli soldier stands between tanks at the Israel-Gaza border
  • Monday, 9 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    Military briefing: the groups that pose the deadliest threat to Israel

    Several militant organisations and non-state actors have targeted the Jewish state

    A montage showing militants from Hizbollah and the military wing of Hamas along with a Palestinian flag
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