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Seth J. Frantzman

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Seth J. Frantzman's foreign correspondence from the Middle East is often highlighted in the Threat Status daily newsletter produced by The Washington Times.

Articles by Seth J. Frantzman

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Israel presses on in Lebanon as Hezbollah rocket barrages rain down

It's a snapshot of a war that is only getting bigger: Thirty minutes after sunrise on Friday, tens of thousands of Israelis were forced to run to bomb shelters in the bay of Haifa as Hezbollah militants across the border in Lebanon launched 20 rockets at northern Israel.

October 4, 2024
An Israeli firefighter works to extinguish a fire burning in an area near the community of Ramot Naftali, by the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The Israeli military said Tuesday that six soldiers were lightly injured in a brush fire in the country's north that was sparked by fighting with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel weighs a two-front war as Hezbollah escalates attacks

As the U.S. and its allies struggle to impose a cease-fire in Gaza, Israel has another potential hot war brewing on its north. Despite the drain of troops and resources in the fight against Hamas, Israeli Defense Forces officials say they're ready to open a second front against Lebanon's Hezbollah if ordered by the government.

June 11, 2024
Rubble from buildings destroyed in the Israeli Army's ground operation in the Gaza Strip are seen from southern Israel, near the Gaza border fence, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Deceptive normalcy: A border town with a front-row seat to the Gaza carnage

The border of Gaza today is green, and farm equipment tills the fields on Israel's side. The pastoral scene is a stark change from four months ago after Hamas militants' rampaging assault filled many of the Jewish communities with death and devastation and left the area deserted.

February 17, 2024
Israeli Education Minister Gideon Saar speaks during an unveiling ceremony for a plaque honoring Pawel Frenkel, a leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday March 20, 2012. Frenkel was a senior commander of the Jewish Military Union, an underground resistance group that opposed the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. He died in the uprising. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Gideon Saar challenges Netanyahu as Likud leader

He has defied and defeated his many adversaries -- political and legal, domestic and foreign -- for a decade, but now a new threat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's grip on power here has emerged much closer to home, from within his own ruling Likud Party.

December 23, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro meet at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 31, 2019. (Heidi Levine/Pool Photo via AP)

Benjamin Netanyahu: Indictment an ‘attempted coup’

Long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to fight an indictment for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three different cases that have been hanging over the leader's head for more than a year in the midst of an unprecedented political stalemate for Israel.

November 21, 2019
Firefighters deploy after a factory hit by a rocket caught fire in Sderot, southern Israel , Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 12m 2019. Israel has killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza in a rare targeted killing that threatened to unleash a fierce round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli strikes on Palestinian Islamic Jihad spark missile barrage

Israel carried out a deadly airstrike on a residence used by a leading Palestinian militant in Gaza on Tuesday morning and missed a strike on a second top target in Syria, sparking a barrage of retaliatory missile fire from the restive Palestinian enclave.

November 12, 2019
Iraqi Christians attend Mass at the archaeological site of Kokheh Church south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug 23, 2019. The historical church located on the left bank of the Tigris River some 20 miles south of the capital Baghdad dates back to the first century AD. Remnants of the church, an archaeological site and one of the most important sites of Eastern Christianity, was reopened again to the public last year after a years-long closure due to security concerns. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi Christians rebound in Irbil and Alqosh

There are signs of a comeback for Iraqi Christians who held on throughout the turmoil of the 2003 U.S. invasion and the sudden emergence of the radical Islamists a decade later

October 3, 2019
Kurdish peshmerga use binoculars to look for ISIS activity below Mount Qarachogh. (Seth J. Frantzman - Special to The Washington Times)

ISIS make Iraq resurgence, Kurdish peshmerga warn

From their position on top of the mountain, the Kurdish peshmerga say Islamic State fighters are living in caves in the no man's land between Kurdish and Iraqi security forces on the plains below.

October 2, 2019
An Israeli drone circles over Gaza City on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Drone attacks in Middle East are terrorists’ equalizer

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are increasingly revolutionizing warfare, and recent clashes across the Middle East show how they can be both a strategic game-changer and a terrorist's favorite equalizer.

August 28, 2019
Plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. A fact-finding committee appointed by the Iraqi government to investigate a massive munitions depot explosion near the capital Baghdad has concluded that the blast was the result of a drone strike. A copy of the report was obtained by The Associated Press Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed, File)

Israel-Iran war escalates with airstrikes in Iraq

A series of strikes targeting munition stockpiles and bases of Iranian-backed Shiite paramilitaries near Baghdad is raising fears that Iraq is emerging as the next battleground in the unacknowledged hot war between Israel and Iran.

August 21, 2019