The High Court in the UK on Thursday ruled in favour of journalist Owen Jones after a BBC editor brought a libel case over an article he wrote in December 2024. Raffi Berg, the BBC's...
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Iranian Official Claims Israel Used Arab ‘Contractor’ in Alleged Oman False-Flag Operation
Full ArticleIranian source claims Israel staged Oman attack to damage Tehran–Muscat ties and destabilize Gulf diplomacy amid widening war. Key Developments - An Iranian security official told Al-Mayadeen that Israel orchestrated a “false flag” attack targeting fuel storage facilities in Oman. - - The...
Israel's closure of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque has forced Palestinian Muslim worshippers to pray outside the holy site during the final ten nights of Ramadan. The situation marks a stark contrast with previous years, when tens of thousands...
Days before International Women’s Day, the European Commission presented a new Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030. Its language, filled with ‘intersectionality’, ‘empowerment’, and ‘gender mainstreaming’, projects an ambitious vision. It promises progress, yet it deliberately omits the EU's complicity...
Francesca Albanese , the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, is calling for submissions on a study on genocide and the media amid the Gaza war. The research seeks to investigate the killings of and attacks...
More than 60 UK lawmakers are backing a parliamentary motion for widespread sanctions on Israel, as its government moves to annex the occupied West Bank. Labour MP Richard Burgon said he is pushing for sanctions on arms,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli settlers kidnapped a Palestinian young man from the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, on Thursday. Local sources reported that settlers abducted Issa Maher Zayed while he was heading to his land near the settlement outpost...
The Popular Mobilisation Forces ( PMF ) denied claims that Iraqi security forces searched its offices in Baghdad, calling the reports false. The group said that social media reports did not come from official sources. It urged...
Jewish settlers set fire to the Mohammad Fayyad Mosque in the village of Duma , south of Nablus , on Thursday morning, as several Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces across the West Bank. The settlers vandalised the mosque...
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Israel is in talks with Somaliland officials to form a strategic security partnership, which might include granting Israel access to a military base or other security installation along the Somaliland coast from which it can launch...
Desde el 7 de octubre de 2023 el Estado de Israel está siendo gradualmente aniquilado. Y Estados Unidos no está siendo capaz de impedir esa aniquilación. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su En la...
Since Israeli attacks on Lebanon expanded in recent days , the scale of displacement has risen sharply , according to data from the government's Disaster Management Unit and the Ministry of Social Affairs. Workers on the ground, however, say...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Palestinian and Islamic groups have called on Thursday for mass prayers at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem during the final Friday of Ramadan as Israel continues to restrict access to the holy site. Jerusalemite activists urged...
LONDON, (PIC) Dozens of MPs and peers have signed a letter calling for a formal British apology over the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which paved the way for the creation of Israel in 1948 and the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of...
A drone attack on Oman's Salalah Port on Wednesday has further tested ties between Iran and the Gulf sultanate, which acted as a key mediator between Tehran and Washington before the outbreak of war earlier this...
Uncle Bibi’s war – and America’s bill
Full ArticleBy Brian D. O’LEARY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The bombs were American. The checkbook is American. Seven of the dead have American names. The Geneva talks ended without a deal on...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights has strongly condemned what it described as Israel’s systematic targeting of Gaza’s fishing sector, warning that the campaign has escalated from imposing severe restrictions to the “comprehensive destruction” of a vital civilian industry. In...
TEHRAN, (PIC) The Zio-American aggression on Iran continues, while the last hours have witnessed a notable military escalation, after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the launch of a missile wave described as among the most intense toward Israel, which led to...
GAZA, (PIC) The suffering of the displaced in Mawasi Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, is no longer limited to the shortage of food and water and the lack of space, a new health crisis has joined it, represented by...
GAZA, (PIC) The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that since the announcement of the ceasefire on October 11, 2025, the casualties from the continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire have reached 651 martyrs and 1,741 wounded while the total number...
Another war we’re not supposed to see
Full ArticleBy Patrick LAWRENCE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su You have to figure, if those waging war — and covering it — dedicate themselves this assiduously to keeping things hidden, there are surely...
Shahd Alnaami did not write before the genocide . It was only after she lost a friend — one of the more than 70,000 people killed in Israel's war on Gaza — that she began putting words...
In the crucible of conflict, narratives are forged with haste. They glide across television screens, seep through the veins of social media, and echo in the corridors of political power, shaping how entire societies come to understand the chaos unfolding...
The UK media’s take on the use of ‘hard power’ depends entirely on who’s exercising it. The labelling of Russia’s war in Ukraine in February 2022 was clear from the start. According to the Nexis database, 12,700 stories across the UK...
John Mearsheimer details how the American Empire stumbled into one of its largest strategic blunders, and what the effects of it all might entail for the rest of the world Cross-posted from the Chris Hedges Report As the U.S.-Israel...
An Egyptian political activist is trying to rally public support behind his demand to kick the ambassadors of the US and Israel out of Egypt over their war on Iran . Mamdouh Hamza, a vocal critic of Egyptian...
The dead Ali Khamenei hands over the Iranian flag to a mirror image of his son, Mojtaba Khamenei. From the web site https://english.khamenei.ir/ By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Mar 12 2026 (IPS) The US/Israeli war on Iran might be like...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces on Thursday continued violating the Gaza ceasefire agreement through airstrikes, artillery shelling, and gunfire from helicopters. The attacks come amid ongoing violations despite the ceasefire, while data from the Ministry of Health show a continued rise...
Are we on the precipice of World War III?
Full ArticleShortly after U.S. and Israeli bombs and missiles began falling in Tehran, Iranian missiles flew in all directions at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and others. The people living in these countries were justifiably terrified, which...
HEBRON / NABLUS / PNN / Israeli settlers carried out new attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank, local sources said, amid continued criticism from the international community over settler violence. Palestinian residents say such attacks often occur under...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of Palestinian youths performed the Isha and Tarawih prayers at the closest point possible to the Aqsa Mosque as Israeli forces continue to block worshipers and those observing religious retreat from entering the holy site. Jerusalem-based sources reported...
Craig Murray – Joy at Death and Destruction
Full ArticleThis is the type of war that the fascists Trump and Netanyahu and their allies revel in. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog The United...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Wednesday welcomed the Spanish government’s decision to recall its ambassador from Israel and reduce its diplomatic representation. In a statement, the Movement said the step continues the honorable positions taken by the Spanish government and people...
Jordan's foreign ministry on Wednesday called on Israeli authorities to reopen the Al-Aqsa compound in east Jerusalem, which has been closed for almost two weeks of the holy month of Ramadan . Authorities have prevented Palestinian Muslim worshippers...
At the remarkable age of 100, Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi passed away on Sunday, 8 March. Gone but never forgotten, we pay tribute to “the historian of the Palestinian cause,” whose groundbreaking research chronicled the Nakba and...
Palestinian group Hamas condemned Israel’s continued closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex for the 11th consecutive day on Tuesday, warning that the move threatens freedom of worship during the holy month of Ramadan. In a statement, the group...
It’s Already a World War
Full ArticleWorld War III will not start with an exchange of nuclear weapons. It won’t ignite from the jostling of great empires. Nor will it result from a single madman (or two) bent on taking over the world. It won’t be any...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Tuesday that controversial legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox men from military service will be shelved for now, citing the soaring costs of Israel’s war with Iran. According to...
An Irish-language singer from punk-rap group Kneecap will not face a terrorism charge after UK prosecutors lost a High Court challenge Wednesday against a judge's decision to dismiss the case. Liam O'Hanna was charged in May last...
Women of Gaza under the fire of war, AI documents compounded harm threatening their lives
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) In a worn-out tent near the seashore in the al-Mawasi area south of the Gaza Strip, Hind, a 22-year-old young woman, tries to keep her newborn baby warm amid the harsh winter cold. Her baby was born with a severe...
The southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday bid farewell to Lebanese Red Cross paramedic Youssef Assaf, who died of wounds sustained while carrying out a rescue mission after an Israeli strike on the town of...
MADRID, (PIC) The Spanish government has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel, effectively lowering the level of Spain’s diplomatic representation in Tel Aviv amid escalating tensions between the two sides since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza. According to...
If the United States and Israel succeed in destroying Iran, Turkey may be next. This is no longer a speculative provocation whispered on the margins of Washington’s think‑tank ecosystem. It is increasingly an articulated narrative, voiced by senior Israeli political...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi has warned that the Israeli occupation’s establishment of a new settler outpost on Mount Ebal, overlooking Nablus City, is part of a broader settlement plan aimed at swallowing more West Bank land to...
In the dim hall that once housed the historic library of Gaza's Great Omari Mosque, a thin beam of sunlight slips through a jagged hole in the ceiling, illuminating piles of torn pages , burned book covers,...
NABLUS, (PIC) Israeli settlers seized a Palestinian house under construction in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on Wednesday, while another group established a new settlement outpost on Mount Ebal north of the city, reflecting the...
Spain permanently withdrew its ambassador to Israel on Tuesday as a diplomatic standoff worsened between the two countries over Spain's opposition to the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Ana Maria Salomon was officially relieved of her duties on Tuesday at...
"We had barely begun to come to terms with the deadly January protests, and now this new bloodshed unfolds," begins Avishan Chanani, an Iranian humanitarian consultant based in Lisbon. Born in Iran, she left during the Iran-Iraq war in...
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