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One of the most prominent philosophers of recent decades, German thinker Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026), passed away recently. He made significant contributions to philosophy, sociology, communication studies, and political science. He was widely known for his role in developing the German...

Perspectives

Donald Trump's Board of Peace has presented Hamas with a written proposal on how it could lay down its weapons, two sources said, a step the Palestinian group has thus far refused to take as the US president pushes...

MENA

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani performed his first Eid al-Fitr prayer on Friday since assuming his role at a public park in Brooklyn, alongside hundreds of worshippers. The prayer was held in Prospect Park and organized by...

World

NABLUS, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles near the town of Aqraba in southern Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank. According to local sources, several cars sustained damage when settlers hurled stones at them near the western...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

By Wyatt REED Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly...

Editor's Choice, IDF, Israel

What’s the difference between Vietnam and the Iran War? Answer: Trump had an exit strategy for Vietnam. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su How much collective responsibility can the West take for the...

Americas, Middle East, World

GENEVA, (PIC) A UN expert has accused the Israeli occupation regime of systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale “that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent.” In a report released on Friday, Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation in...

News, Francesca Albanese, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said he was actively cooperating with US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to fund and deliver the basics of a Gaza reconstruction plan to rebuild Palestinian homes and infrastructure, although he called the board...

News, Antonio Guterres, Board of Peace

GAZA, (PIC) On the mornings of Eid al-Fitr, children in Gaza once eagerly knocked on relatives’ doors, their eyes sparkling with anticipation, waiting for the “Eidiyah”, the traditional gift of money without which the holiday felt incomplete. But today, this familiar scene,...

Reports, Eid al-Fitr, Eid rituals

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and injured a Palestinian young man and kidnaped another one during a raid in the town of Beit Awwa in western al-Khalil. According to local sources, Israeli forces stormed the town of Beit Awwa,...

News, IOF raids, West Bank

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Thousands of Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli occupation jails welcome Eid al-Fitr deprived of their most basic human rights, as unprecedented policies of abuse and isolation have turned prisons into “fields of extermination,” according to human rights organizations. By...

Zionist Terrorism, Eid al-Fitr, Israeli jails

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) On a morning that was supposed to be filled with joy and the sound of takbeer, Palestinians awoke to a heavy scene where grief mixed with anger. This year’s Eid al-Fitr was unlike any before: crowds were absent from...

Jerusalem, Aqsa Mosque, Eid al-Fitr

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Several Moroccan cities witnessed rallies on Friday, the first day of Eid al‑Fitr, condemning Israel’s ongoing closure of the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem. The demonstrations were organized in different Moroccan cities and towns, including M’diq, Mechra Bel Ksiri,...

News, Aqsa closure, Morocco

The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting war with Tehran. The think tank was originally founded to “enhance Israel’s image,” and partners closely with...

Iran, Israel-Palestine, Neoconservatives

Eid Mubarak from the MuslimMatters team to you and your family! TabbalAllah minnaa wa minkum saalih al-a’mal – may Allah accept our righteous deeds from Ramadan! Whether you celebrated on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, may Allah bless all your families and bring...

Announcements, featured, MuslimMatters

Amnesty International has condemned FIFA after it refused to take against Israel's football association over the involvement of teams based in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. In a decision announced Thursday, the global football body...

MENA

They had come to to do their hair for the Eid holiday. Twelve young women filled the hair salon on Wednesday night, after Iftar, a small prefabricated metal structure on the edge of Beit Awa, a village in the Hebron...

MENA

A quick glance at the balance sheet of winners and losers of Trump and Netanyahu’s unilateral war on Iran places Europe on the top of the ‘losers’ list. Europe was not consulted about a war that would cost the continent...

Voices

In both Singapore and Malaysia, Eid is called Hari Raya , or the Day of Celebration – it’s either Hari Raya Puasa (Eidul Fitr) or Hari Raya Haji (Eidul Adha). I have fond Raya memories from my childhood in...

#Culture, #Society, Eid

NABLUS, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers broke into and ransacked al‑Lubban Girls’ High School in the village of al‑Lubban al‑Sharqiya, south of Nablus, on the first day of the Eid al‑Fitr holiday. Local sources reported that settlers removed the Palestinian...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers launched attacks, under military protection, against Palestinians and their property in different West Bank areas over the past 24 hours. According to Palestinian media sources, a group of settlers stormed the hamlet of Khirbet al‑Kharaba in...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Friday on a visit to Israel that Iran must make major concessions as part of any long-term political solution following the US-Israeli war on Iran . "Whatever the outcome of the ongoing military...

MENA

ZURICH — Walk into the Palace of Nations in Geneva these days and one of the first things you’ll notice is a sign informing visitors that the power will be shut off between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m....

Global Voices, Opinion, Politics

For the first time in history Al-Aqsa is closed for Eid. Where is the Ummah? – MuslimMatters Barred from Masjid Al-Aqsa, worshipers pray outside the Old City on Friday morning, the day of Eid. Israeli forces use stun grenades to...

#Current Affairs, #Islam, featured

Airstrikes on Iraq’s Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) militia coalition have left dozens dead or wounded, officials say. As chaos spread, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani urged the nation to remain calm. The leader of the Iran-allied...

MENA

Israeli forces blocked Eid al-Fitr prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday for the first time since Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, dispersing worshippers and preventing access to the site amid ongoing war...

MENA

By Ramzy BAROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on February 28, they appeared convinced that the war would be swift....

Editor's Choice, Benjamin Netanyahu, deterrence

Israeli police said on Friday they had arrested an army reservist who served on the Iron Dome air defence system on suspicion of passing secrets to Iran. The arrest comes as Israel and the United States are locked...

MENA

As families across the Muslim world prepare to celebrate Eid al-Fitr today — a holiday defined by gifts for children, new clothes and fairground visits — Gaza’s displaced families face a different reality. There is no Eid money....

Society

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police barred Muslim worshipers from performing Eid al-Fitr prayers in the Bab al-Amud (Damascus Gate) area in Jerusalem on Friday morning, amid heightened security measures in and around the Old City. According to Palestinian media sources,...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Eid al-Fitr prayer

Many voices in Europe are now saying that Europe should have separated from America long ago, but as always, it is too late. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The European political leaders...

Americas, Europe, World

Sergio CARARO Segue nostro Telegram . La popolazione dell’UE contro la guerra. La persistenza e la consistenza della quota di popolazione contraria nonostante tutto al riarmo e al militarismo, rappresenta una base sociale per opporsi a questo piano inclinato verso...

Italiano, European Union, Militarism

Credit: Michaela Stache/AFP By Samuel King BRUSSELS, Belgium, Mar 20 2026 (IPS) When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the 62nd Munich Security Conference by declaring that the post-war rules-based order ‘no longer exists’, there was plenty of evidence to...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

In recent days, Israel and the United States have expressed outrage over the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilians and civilian residences and infrastructure in Israel and the Gulf by Iranian forces. They have cited the illegality of such attacks,...

Iran, Israel, International-law

Protesters heckled and booed Prime Minister Anthony ​Albanese on Friday during a visit to Australia's largest mosque for Eid al-Fitr prayers, voicing anger over his stance on ally Israel's offensive in Gaza . Some in Australia's Muslim and...

World

Protesters heckled and booed Prime Minister Anthony ​Albanese on Friday during a visit to Australia's largest mosque for Eid al-Fitr prayers, voicing anger over his stance on ally Israel's offensive in Gaza . Some in Australia's Muslim and...

World

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday renewed his call for a truce and the opening of negotiations with Israel to stop the war between it and Hezbollah, during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot . Lebanon...

MENA

Ziyad Motala, Professor of Law, Howard Law School A Troubling Spectacle A troubling spectacle continues during the nightly prayers of Ramadhan. In Islam’s holiest mosques, supplications lavish praise upon the Saudi ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, and seek divine favour for the...

#Current Affairs, featured, Featured Current Affairs

With incompatible war aims, no definition of victory, and a battlefield that keeps expanding, the US-Israel onslaught is doomed – and Iran only needs to survive to prevail Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs...

Geopolitics, Article, Sami Al-Arian
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