
Backed by Iran, ‘Axis of Resistance’ Terror Groups Target Israel
Published on October 20, 2024
News Analysis More than 180 Iranian missiles rained down from the skies over Israel on Oct. 1 in the second large-scale attack by the Islamist regime this year. Israeli leadership has vowed to meet the historic escalation with retaliation, a move that could threaten to further connect a number of regional conflicts into one sprawling war to engulf the Middle East. In the wake of Iran’s missile barrage, strategic discussions have thus increasingly turned from Israel’s grinding campaigns against Hamas and Hezbollah to the so-called “axis of resistance,” a loose confederation of terror groups trained and equipped by the Iranian military....
