The Shadow War Between Israel and Iran Is Redrawing the Middle East
The region is being reordered in fragments. Istanbul, March 2026 The phrase shadow war no longer explains enough. It still suggests secrecy, deniability, selective force,…
Leyla Demir
Middle East correspondent at Phoenix24, specializes in hybrid warfare, regional intelligence, and the evolving dynamics of power and conflict across the Middle East
The Hidden War: Israel, Iran and the Silent Algorithms of the Middle East
Beirut, September 2025. The Middle East is no stranger to proxy wars, clandestine operations and intelligence rivalries. Yet today, the most decisive battles are unfolding…
Humanitarian Corridors, Routes of Power: The Silent Militarization of Aid in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon
Beirut, August 2025 In the shadow zones where states collapse and international promises turn into empty slogans, there’s a flow rarely captured in headlines: humanitarian…
Mossad, Martyrs, and Metadata: The Shadow Code of the Iran–Israel Conflict
Beirut, July 2025 In the old paradigms of Middle Eastern conflict, territory was won with tanks, martyrs were buried with flags, and the enemy had…
Digital Ceasefires and Predictive Profiling: The Invisible Front of Israel–Iran Cyber War
Nicosia, July 2025 As airstrikes flicker across regional maps and diplomats convene in sterile rooms of orchestrated silence, a deeper, less visible war is unfolding—one…