Tom Perry

Oct 1, 2024 | smh.com.au | Tom Perry |Angus McDowall

By Tom Perry and Angus McDowall October 2, 2024 — 11.55am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Beirut: Israel, which has engaged in border warfare with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement for a year in parallel with the Gaza conflict, has a long history of military incursions and invasions in Lebanon.

Oct 31, 2023 | timeslive.co.za | Tom Perry

The Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise attack from Gaza into Israel on October 7, triggering an Israel-Hamas war that marked the most serious escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in many years. WHAT IS HAMAS? Hamas, an acronym of an Arabic phrase meaning Islamic Resistance Movement, was founded in 1987 during the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising. It was created by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organisation established in Egypt in the 1920s.

May 8, 2023 | whbl.com | Tom Perry

By Tom PerryBEIRUT (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad always saw time as an ally in Syria’s civil war, alongside the Russian and Iranian firepower he turned on his foes, sources familiar with his thinking say. Now, as Arab states bring him back into the fold, the logic appears to have worked for him once again.

May 8, 2023 | ktwb.com | Tom Perry

By Tom PerryBEIRUT (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad always saw time as an ally in Syria’s civil war, alongside the Russian and Iranian firepower he turned on his foes, sources familiar with his thinking say. Now, as Arab states bring him back into the fold, the logic appears to have worked for him once again.