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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...

MENA

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...

Voices

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...

World

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,...

World

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...

News, Occupied Jerusalem, Settler crimes

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...

MENA

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...

MENA

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...

Iran-war, Somalia, Horn-of-africa

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...

Español, Censorship, Iran

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...

Society

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...

MENA

By 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...

Editor's Choice, Benjamin Netanyahu, European Union

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...

News, Fishing restrictions, Gaza fishermen

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...

News, Iran, Iranian counterattacks

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...

Reports, Fleas, Gaza Strip

By 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...

Editor's Choice, Censorship, Information War

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...

Perspectives

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...

Archive, Media, Iran

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...

Geopolitics, Article, Chris Hedges

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...

MENA

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...

Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Economy & Trade

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...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

Shortly 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...

Escalation, World-war-i, Russia

This 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...

Geopolitics, Article, Craig Murray

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...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

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...

MENA

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...

Society

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...

MENA

World 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...

War & Peace, international law, Iran

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...

MENA

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...

World

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...

MENA

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...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

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...

Perspectives

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...

News, Hamas Movement, Settlement expansion

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...

News, Settlement expansion, Settler outposts

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...

World

"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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