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We are facing not only a period of unapologetic imperialism to which virtually all Western countries are prepared to defer, but a return of medievalism, both in the sheer barbarity and scale of physical abuse Craig Murray is a British...

While people in Iran shelter from United States and Israeli strikes across the country , and Gulf nations absorb the shock of retaliatory strikes from Iran, Egypt’s government has rushed to triage the economic shockwave sent out by the regional...

Iran's trump card in the event of any US or Israeli war was that it could close the Strait of Hormuz to shipping overnight, thus seriously impacting oil and gas supplies and having the world pressure an aggressor...

By David BRADY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Iran intervention could well turn into an open-ended misadventure. In the wake of the 1991 Gulf War victory, then-President George H.W. Bush rode...

TEHRAN, (PIC) The confrontation between the United States and Israel, on one side, and Iran, on the other, has entered an unprecedented phase in terms of the nature of the targets and their sensitivity, following the assassination of influential Iranian leaders...

Iranian top officials vowed Sunday to avenge their slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and declared a new wave of strikes on US bases in the Gulf, defying US President Donald Trump's threat of an unprecedented escalation in...

By: William Thatcher Dowell - - - - Photo from West Asia News Agency Despite warnings by Middle East experts to Donald Trump that a new military attack against Iran might trigger a much larger conflagration that risks enveloping the...

One lie supersedes the next. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper....

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man from ad-Dhahiriya in al-Khalil succumbed Saturday to Israeli gunfire wounds, while another one was injured in an armed settler attack in Masafer Yatta on the same day. According to medical and local sources, 19-year-old Tamer...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program...

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Majid Asgaripour/West Asian News Agency via Reuters When a girls’ school in the southern Iranian city of Minab was struck yesterday, apparently accidentally, on the opening day of the latest phase of...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who turned the country into a powerful anti-U.S. force and extended its military influence across the Middle East while crushing repeated domestic unrest, was killed in Israeli and U.S. strikes , a...

The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has accused the Open University (OU) of undermining academic freedom by agreeing to drop the term "ancient Palestine" from its teaching materials under pressure from the pro-Israel lobbying group UK Lawyers for...

The US-Israeli attack on Iran comes just days before Purim , prompting questions about whether the timing of the assault has any symbolic, religious significance and if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to hijack an ancient...

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Saturday that his country refused to be dragged into war after Israel and the United States launched strikes against Iran, while the US advised its citizens to leave Lebanon. Authorities fear the Iran-backed Lebanese...

By Jean-Daniel RUCH Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Anyone who still believes in Switzerland must support the lawyers who have filed a lawsuit against Cassis. It was not long ago that Switzerland...

Bethlehem/PNN / By Tasneem Elridi This year’s Ramadan arrives while Palestine is suffering from severe hunger. The Gaza Strip is facing an acute food crisis despite a ceasefire that has been in place for months. Approximately 1.6 million people ,...

WEST BANK, (PIC) What the West Bank is experiencing is no longer merely a security escalation or routine settlement expansion that can be contained within traditional conflict equations, rather, according to estimates by political analysts, it has become an integrated political...

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights has expressed deep concern over what it described as a sharp escalation in Israeli military measures across occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, coinciding with the outbreak of military confrontation with Iran. In a...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / Monjed Jadou - The board of directors of the Bethlehem Multidisciplinary Industrial Park “BMIP” held its regular meeting this week, reviewing the zone’s performance and discussing measures to further promote investment in what...

President Donald Trump’s Pentagon is reportedly preparing a potential military assault on Iran . Washington and Tehran are set to resume Omani-mediated talks on Thursday, but the threat of war is rising nonetheless. This month, the...

Two people were killed Saturday in air strikes on an Iraqi military base housing the powerful pro-Iran group Kataeb Hezbollah, which has threatened the US with an imminent response. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Saturday...

Two people were killed on Saturday in air strikes on an Iraqi military base housing the powerful pro-Iran group Kataeb Hezbollah, which has threatened the US with a response. The United States and Israel launched a campaign against Iran early...

GAZA, (PIC) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA is experiencing one of the most complex crises since its establishment, amid administrative and financial decisions that have sparked widespread concern and anger among its employees, who constitute...

“This is a doctrine of domination… It is the enforcement of permanent inequality” Abbas Araghchi is the Foreign Minister of Iran This was delivered earlier this month at the 16th Al Jazeera Forum held in Doha Excellencies, Distinguished colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, السلام علیکم It...