The UN on Tuesday urged Israel to immediately halt its dramatic settlement expansion in the West Bank , raising "ethnic cleansing" concerns with over 36,000 Palestinians displaced in a single year. A fresh report from the United Nations...
Surprised by the intensity of Hezbollah’s retaliatory attacks against it, Israel appears to be pivoting to sow internal chaos within Lebanon’s borders in a bid to trigger a catastrophic civil war. An attempted coup against the Lebanese military’s leadership may...
Israeli settlers attacked a village in the northern Jordan Valley , sexually assaulting a Palestinian man and threatening to rape women and children, Haaretz reported on Tuesday, citing eyewitnesses. The attack on the village of Khirbet...
GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s Health Ministry has warned that hospitals face a growing risk of shutdown as Israel continues to block the entry of essential oils and spare parts needed to operate electrical generators. In a statement Tuesday, the ministry said Israeli occupation...
President Donald Trump has issued fresh threats in the context of the Iran war. Despite his boasts that the Iranian military is annihilated, he is pushing for Washington’s European NATO allies to join U.S. efforts to break Iranian de facto...
Lebanese Information Minister Paul Marquess issued an internal directive to state-run media outlets, including the National News Agency, Télé Liban , and Radio Lebanon, instructing them not to use the term "resistance" when referring to Hezbollah...
On 9 March, the United States announced its intent to designate the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan as a "foreign terrorist organisation." US Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified the move by claiming that Sudan’s Islamic Movement -...
Things could get a lot hotter in the Middle East and Europe. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump’s Operation Epic Fury is fast becoming “Operation Epic FAFO” – that is, a “fuck...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Monday that his last contact with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff was before the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran , contradicting an earlier media report that a direct communications channel...
By Jeffrey D. SACHS and Sybil FARES Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On February 16, 2026, one of us ( Jeffrey Sachs ) sent a letter to the UN Security Council warning...
Israeli strikes killed at least three people in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with several wounded taken to hospital, the country's National News Agency reported, as Israel said that the hundreds of thousands of...
At least one person was killed in the UAE on Tuesday after being hit by falling debris from an intercepted missile, as Iran's attacks on the Gulf continue. The incident took place in the city’s Bani Yas...
The Iranians have a vote on when the war ends. And they say that they are just getting started. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal...
Across the Middle East, cultural heritage stands at a crossroads, as the US-Israeli war on Iran escalates. From Tehran's Golestan palace to Tyre's Roman arches and Babylon's crumbling walls, the region's treasures face pressure from both...
New restrictions on movement and a deadly surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank have raised fears that Israel is exploiting the war on Iran to accelerate its long-term goal of annexing the Palestinian territory....
If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth...
The European Union's funding and exporting of high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems is exacerbating existing human rights violations in Palestine and across the wider Middle East, according to a new report. Released on Monday by 7amleh,...
In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been surprised that it was so complicated to find out why the word “ Palestine ” was removed from some sections of the British Museum. The difficulty was there by design. After all, the only...
This month marks the one-year anniversary of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by U.S. immigration officials, a moment that seemingly kicked off an increased wave of government suppression against the Palestine movement. Khalil, who was finally released from detention last June, spoke...
Israeli forces prevented worshippers from observing Laylat al-Qadr - the 'night of destiny ' - at Jerusalem 's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, marking the 16th consecutive day that the Muslim holy site has been closed off since the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities have continued to keep Al-Aqsa Mosque closed to worshipers for more than two weeks, while heavily militarizing Jerusalem’s Old City and preventing thousands of Palestinians from reaching the holy site during the final days of...
By Bill ASTORE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Here are some excerpts from recent articles dealing with Trump’s growing disconnection from reality and the expansion of war in the Middle East for...
This year's Oscars were charged with politics and protest, with several attendees using Hollywood’s biggest event as a stage to denounce the US-Israel war on Iran and call for solidarity with Palestine and Iran . While...
On a summer’s day in 2018, a British army drone crashed near a school in Wales where students were taking part in a sports day. It marked the third time that this type of drone – the Watchkeeper WK450 – had...
While ground operations in Iran by the US military seem unlikely at this stage of the war, President Donald Trump’s administration has been careful not to rule them out entirely. Since the US Operation Epic Fury and Israel’s...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The closing of Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Israeli occupation authorities during the last ten days of the month of Ramadan takes on a political dimension that goes beyond being a temporary security measure, amid warnings of exploiting the...
The Iranians have a vote on when the war ends. And they say that they are just getting started. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The U.S.-Israeli stand-off air-strike model of waging war...
15 March 2026 Transrcript: Resistance News Interviewer: We turn now to the foreign minister of Iran, Abbas Araghchi. Good evening to you, sir. Abbas Araghchi: Good evening to you. Thank you for having me for the second...
Hundreds of people turned out in London Sunday for a pro-Palestine march banned by the government after police said it was organised by a group "supportive of the Iranian regime". Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood said earlier this week she...
If true justice prevails in Palestine, it will inevitably prevail in Lebanon, in Syria, and beyond. The exhausted branding of the Middle East as a “war-torn region” will finally vanish. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of...
Remember all the hasbarists and empire apologists who said it was a misfired Iranian missile that hit the school. Remember how aggressively and uniformly they all pushed this lie, including the president of the United States. Then understand that they’re...
Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank , killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. The official Palestinian news agency said the family was shot late Saturday...
Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank , killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. The official Palestinian news agency said the family was shot late Saturday...
While the world's attention is focused on the US-Israeli war on Iran , the Israeli-occupied West Bank has experienced a surge in deadly settler violence. Since the start of the month, six Palestinians have been shot dead in settler...
Four Palestinians were injured in an attack by extremist Israeli settlers south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Saturday morning. Settlers opened fire on residents of the village of Kisan during the raid, the head...
Israel's war on Lebanon , which began on 2 March after Hezbollah launched strikes in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been steadily expanding to encompass much of the country. Alongside heavy airstrikes on southern...
By Sayid Marcos Tenorio Every year, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, millions of people around the world mobilize to mark the International Day of Al-Quds, the Arabic name for the city of Jerusalem. Established in 1979 by...
By George D. O’NEILL Jr. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Once again, we are embroiled in a new foreign war—not surprisingly at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu. The Trump administration chose to...
BEIRUT, (PIC) At least 23 people, including 12 medical personnel, were killed in Israeli air strikes across Lebanon early Saturday as Israel continued its military offensive that began earlier this month. Lebanese media reported that four people were martyred when Israeli occupation...
Jordan Valley / PNN / On Friday, March 13, at 1:20am, around 30 masked Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian property in Humsa, northern Jordan Valley, where a family of 12 people live. The settlers first stormed a tent where one of the...
Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to the Middle East who President Donald Trump tasked with negotiating a deal with Iran, does not sound very much like a diplomat lately. “There’s almost no stopping them, they have an endless supply of...
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed four Palestinians, including two 17-year-olds, in two separate attacks, Palestinian medics said on Friday, with violence continuing in the West Bank and Gaza even as Israel expands its offensive across the region . Israel has...
Key Takeaways - Israel’s military strategy has long relied on psychological dominance and deterrence built on overwhelming violence. - - Massacres during the Nakba helped establish fear as a strategic tool to weaken Palestinian resistance. - - Doctrines such as the Dahiya Doctrine...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities on Friday issued military orders to seize dozens of dunums of Palestinian land in the Al-Baqi‘a Plain in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank. Moataz Bisharat, the official responsible for monitoring settlement activity in...
Every morning, I see images that I have spent my 47 years of exile from Iran dreading; smoke rising above Tehran’s densely populated, tower-filled skyscape and explosions damaging important cultural sites like the UNESCO World Heritage Golestan Palace...
BBC editor’s libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here’s why Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli air strikes across Lebanon killed at least five people on Friday as cross-border fighting escalated, while Hezbollah responded with multiple rocket barrages that injured dozens in northern Israel. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that two people were martyred and...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities continued to keep Al-Aqsa Mosque closed on Friday, preventing worshipers from entering the holy site for the final Friday prayer of Ramadan as the closure entered its 14th consecutive day. Hundreds of Palestinians instead performed prayers...
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