Syria has nominated veteran diplomat and former opposition figure Yahya Diab as its new ambassador to Egypt, in a move that could mark a significant step towards normalising relations between Damascus and Cairo after months of diplomatic uncertainty...
Syrian authorities have announced the arrests of three former Assad-era figures accused of war crimes and abuses, as the country's new government continues efforts to pursue individuals linked to violations committed during the brutal crackdown of a...
Hundreds of people have flocked to a tent in Damascus to mourn a former national chess champion who was forcibly disappeared by the former Assad regime 13 years ago, along with her husband and six children, now that...
Several officials of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahda party, including its 84-year-old chief Rached Ghannouchi, were handed jail sentences on Tuesday ranging from 10 years to life in prison on terror charges, the party and reports said. Ghannouchi...
By Nicolas J.S. DAVIES Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that...
An attack on the UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant on 17 May , which Emirati authorities blamed on a drone launched by Iraqi armed groups, drew condemnation from the UAE, the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency...
The United States has left its ambassadorial post in Baghdad vacant for 18 months , while envoy Tom Barrack's role has expanded across Iraq and Syria amid shifting diplomatic and strategic priorities. US President Donald Trump...
During my years at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I published little on Palestine and Israel, not least because this would not have been accepted under the prevailing rules. Although publication was formally permitted, one had to reckon with...
GAZA, (PIC) When the Palestinian scene is reduced to a round of aggression or breaking news, the most important element is lost: that the history of the Palestinian resistance is a long path shaped under British colonialism, deepened with the Nakba,...
Syria's missing persons commission announced on Saturday that several children who were detained alongside their parents by the former Assad regime early in the country's war were most likely dead. In a statement, the National Commission for...
Helpless and increasingly frustrated, the families of Syrians kidnapped by Israeli forces are demanding the release of their loved ones, a year and a half since Israeli troops stormed the country’s southwest. A delegation of families visited a UN...
Since October 2023 , Israel has occupied vast stretches of territory in Gaza, Syria and, most recently, Lebanon. Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct language to characterize U.S.-backed Israeli land grabs in each of these places, preferring...
Long before today’s attacks on leftist politicians and Palestine solidarity movements, Zionist leaders sold their movement as a defence against socialism and communism Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York Cross-posted from...
The majority of Jews worldwide could be living in Israel within the next decade, according to a new report by the UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research . The report, written by Professor Sergio Della Pergola and published on Wednesday,...
You almost never wind up where you expect to, and quite often you can’t even work out how you got there Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” For the last four years or so, strategists and...
Israel moved closer on Wednesday to a snap election after lawmakers gave an initial nod to dissolve parliament, with opinion polls showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would lose the first national vote since October 2023. Israeli lawmakers voted almost unanimously...
Israel's parliament is expected to vote on Wednesday on a bill to dissolve itself, potentially bringing the next national election forward by a few weeks, which surveys predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose. When is the ballot? An...
During a panel appearance at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum last month, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack managed to anger observers in both Turkey and Israel. Israelis took umbrage at his comments that both Israel and Hezbollah are “equally untrustworthy,”...
The countryside of Quneitra and Daraa, southern Syria , has witnessed further violence in recent hours by Israeli occupation forces , involving artillery shelling and repeated military incursions targeting agricultural areas and populated villages. The attacks have raised...
German car giant Volkswagen is reportedly close to signing a deal with Israeli defence company Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to produce components linked to the Iron Dome air defence system at a factory in western Germany,...
Lebanon and Israel began direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday in a bid to end decades of conflict, as Israel's ongoing offensive and occupation of southern Lebanon threaten to derail efforts toward a lasting ceasefire. While both sides have...
Lebanon and Israel began direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday in a bid to end decades of conflict, as Israel's ongoing offensive and occupation of southern Lebanon threaten to derail efforts toward a lasting ceasefire. While both sides have...
Lebanon and Israel began direct negotiations in Washington on Thursday in a bid to end decades of conflict, as Israel's ongoing offensive and occupation of southern Lebanon threaten to derail efforts toward a lasting ceasefire. While both sides have...
Over the course of the past three years, a financial intelligence and auditing firm, K2 Integrity has inked deals with three MENA central banks to improve their capacity to combat money laundering and fraud. But K2 Integrity’s mandate goes well...
What Nicholas Kristof left out of The New York Times. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. By Richard MEDHURST Junte-se a nós no...
There is nothing Israel could do which would lead Germany to question its support for Zionism. Jurgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a temporary Professor for the Structure of modern societies at...
Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend’s kitchen eating pupusas , the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on conditions in Central America from Cristosal’s Noah Bullock. Cristosal is a key Central...
Why was Palestine not explicitly placed at the center of Iran’s ceasefire framework? Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Cross-posted from Ramzy Baroud’s website Thinking Palestine For many years, being accused of being ‘pro-Iran’...
Over 1.2 million Syrians have voluntarily returned home since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, following a rebel offensive. Data from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees states that improved living conditions in the country, better security,...
In recent days, a new crisis has been escalating in the cities of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, concerning the disappearance of a shipment of US weapons that President Donald Trump said had been sent to...
1 May 2026 Ian Proud (IP) – I was talking about the old adage that “wars are won by economies not armies”, and I think the war in Iran has slightly refined that phrase, that “wars are won by economics...
When Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, a flurry of media reports suggested that CIA-armed Kurdish forces were preparing to enter Iran and help topple the Islamic Republic. That outcome was always unlikely. Just months earlier, the...
Damascus, Syria - On 6 March, days after launching the war against Iran , US President Donald Trump stated he would approve of Iranian Kurds taking military action against the Iranian regime. "I think it's wonderful that...
The most explosive allegation against Israel is also the most emotionally painful one. A state founded in 1948 as a refuge for Jewish survivors of Adolf Hitler’s terror is committing genocide today, contend a range of historians, including Holocaust scholars,...
Two months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, a tense standoff prevails. There is no active warfare, but no signs of a diplomatic breakthrough either. The war is a culmination of a 47-year trajectory which set the U.S. and Iran...
Two months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, a tense standoff prevails. There is no active warfare, but no signs of a diplomatic breakthrough either. The war is a culmination of a 47-year trajectory which set...
Israeli forces are still continuing with incursions into Syrian territory , amid an escalation in Israeli violations and raids in the southern part of the country. On Monday, three Israeli military vehicles entered the Wadi al-Raqad area in western Daraa...
Egypt’s foreign minister has hosted his Syrian counterpart in Cairo in what appears to be a cautious but notable step towards reviving relations between the two countries, raising questions over whether a broader thaw is underway after...
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the...
A mass grave containing the bodies of 55 men and women has been discovered in the village of Mazra’et Al-Raheb southeast of Aleppo in Syria , local sources have told The New Arab. The Syrian National Commission for...
In recent remarks to Fox News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a plan to task the Lebanese army with disarming Hezbollah — an effort that could spark civil war in Lebanon. “That’s what we’re working towards establishing, is a system...
A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively “frozen” by the Turkish government, a top militant commander said on Thursday. He and another officials with the group accused Ankara of failing to enact...
A large group of Israeli settlers stood atop a building in the Syrian village of Al-Hader in the occupied territory of Quneitra last week, waving the Israeli flag and chanting songs calling for the settlement of...
Some of the UK's leading humanitarian and human rights groups on Thursday are calling on the British government to suspend its trade agreement with Israel following the passing of its controversial death penalty law , which they warn is...
The recent Al-Qaeda and ALF offensive in Mali requires us to look at the region to understand the real state of things. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The struggle for...
Using America’s sons and daughters to devastate the world Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his...
Relatives of dozens of Syrians detained in the southwestern province of Quneitra by Israeli forces held a protest on Sunday outside the foreign ministry building in Damascus, demanding the government make efforts to secure the release of their...
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