The 35th Congress of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) — one of Indonesia’s largest and most influential mass Muslim organizations — has drawn to a consequential close. KH Abdul Hakim Mahfudz, affectionately known as Gus Kikin, was appointed Executive Council (PBNU) chairman...
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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Sep 8 2026 (IPS) It is nearly a year since the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2803 on 17 November, 2025, endorsing President Trump’s 20-point framework ostensibly designed to end the war in Gaza and create a...
Iran has threatened the United States with what it calls “economic warfare” and warned of further military action as the six month old conflict enters another period of escalation. Tehran says it has used an advanced missile against U.S. warships,...
On August 16, Trump abruptly commanded the Pentagon to “substantially” reduce joint military exercises between the US and South Korea (ROK). The annual Ulchi Freedom Shield, originally scheduled for eleven days, was subsequently relegated to a five-day exercise. By contrast,...
This year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should serve as another reminder that the criminal prosecution of the accused plotters remains in limbo. One of the biggest cases in U.S. history, and potentially one of its most consequential,...
Twenty-five years ago, 19 hijackers took control of four American airliners and crashed them into symbols of American power, killing upwards of 3000 people. The American population watched the events unfold in real time. It was an emotionally jarring event...
From the start, the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has been a story of unintended consequences. Contrary to President Donald Trump’s hopes for a quick victory, the conflict has morphed into a sustained crisis, one that has driven up oil prices,...
US-Israel war on Iran and political instability in Somalia lead to pirates targeting cargo ships off Horn of Africa The scourge of Somali piracy targeting cargo ships and smaller dhows off the Horn of Africa has returned to levels not seen...
Last week, New York City police murdered two emotionally disturbed individuals. Far from denouncing the police and demanding that the officers be prosecuted, Democratic/DSA Mayor Mamdani defended the police and held an event in the Bronx, where he praised the...
The September 11 2001 terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before. For America, and the watching world, September 11 (or 9/11) seemed most like a Pearl Harbor moment – a devastating surprise attack by a distant enemy...
Islam Times: Hassan Zain al-Din, a prominent writer and political analyst, believes that reliance on foreign military bases has not only failed to provide security for the countries of the region, but that conscious convergence and the strengthening of relations...
Islam Times (Exclusive The visits of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the Israeli occupying regime, to the United States are no longer assessed merely within the framework of bilateral relations between Washington and Tel Aviv. These visits have now...
Islam Times - Brigadier General Akram Sariwi, an expert on strategic affairs, believes that the visits of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the Israeli occupying regime, to Washington should not be viewed merely as traditional diplomatic meetings. Rather, these visits...
After almost five years of attritional warfare, the war in Ukraine is entering a more dangerous phase. Russia has strong incentives to escalate. The battlefield has not delivered the political outcome Moscow sought, while Ukraine is increasingly able to strike...
Islam Times - The visits of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the Israeli occupying regime, to the United States are no longer merely routine and temporary political meetings or diplomatic occasions between two traditional allies. Rather, they have become pivotal...
In December 1957, an American businessman stepped off a plane onto the tarmac of a chilly Tokyo International Airport at Haneda. Exhausted by the long flight from Los Angeles, the man was in his mid-50s and wore a serious expression...
By: Tita C. Valderama The Philippines is pushing back against what it sees as a creeping Chinese campaign to rewrite the history of Batanes, a string of islands and the country’s northern most province, with the aim of one day challenging...
The Trump administration sent Congress its civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. Asked what the deal permits, the president wrote: There will be no enrichment of material. His own Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, has said the opposite. The agreement...
The death of Palestinian artist Sliman Anis Mansour stirred powerful memories. He passed away at Al-Makassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem on August 24, at the age of 79, bringing to a close a legacy that cannot truly be described,...
If Russia attacks a NATO member, Germany would have six months to move as many as 800,000 allied troops and 200,000 vehicles across the country toward the eastern flank. The ports, airports and railways required for that movement already carry...
Five years after Indian Point’s last reactor shut down, Albany rediscovered the appeal of electricity that runs around the clock without burning fossil fuels. Governor Kathy Hochul wants 5 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity, with at least 1 GW developed by the publicly...
At the center of the rally was the fight for the release of 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and opponent of war Bogdan Syrotiuk, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on August 10. Here we publish the speech by Johannes...
US President Donald Trump has spent his second term threatening takeovers of various other countries, from Canada and Cuba to Greenland, and on Monday he shared on social media a map that fueled fresh fears of his imperialist “Donroe Doctrine.” The map on Trump’s Truth Social platform shows the US flag over not...
For more than a century, Pan-Africanism gave Africa a powerful political vocabulary of unity, solidarity, dignity, and liberation. This ideology emerged from a continent determined to reclaim control over its destiny after colonial exploitation and domination. But what happens when...
Rosneft has shipped the first crude oil cargo from the Vostok Oil project in Eastern Siberia, despite sanctions targeting Russia’s energy industry and the exit of Western business partners. At peak capacity, the project is expected to produce between 50...
Latest Analysis from Arab Center Washington DC: Reading Palestinian Polls—and Misreading Palestinian Politics By Yousef Munayyer Yousef Munayyer is the head of the Palestine/Israel Program and Senior Fellow The latest poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research...
The biggest U.S. legacy automakers look to turn the losses from their underutilized electric vehicle battery capacity into a new profitable business to seize the soaring demand for battery storage energy systems. GM and Ford, which, due to poor demand,...
Islam Times - Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has warned that Washington’s war against Iran is on course to become another failed US military aggression in West Asia, similar to Iraq and Afghanistan, as the United States struggles to break...
The woman who knocked at my door wore a pair of cheap white sunglasses. She asked for something to eat. Then another woman came, and she knocked at my door and said that she was from the Patriotic Alliance. She...
The German Government, along with German universities, are sponsoring a project called MedWater which supports Zionist ethnic cleansing and land seizure in the West Bank. Cross-posted from Scheerpost Exploiting academic institutions as a cover, between 2017 – 2021 the German government surreptitiously...
The investigations published by The New York Times and The Washington Post should not be dismissed as another collection of allegations emerging from Sudan’s opaque civil war. Taken together, they present the most substantial publicly available evidence yet that elements...
A disastrous election for German chancellor Friedrich Merz in particular, and the German establishment in general. Ed Turner is Reader in Politics at Aston University in Birmingham and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe. Cross-posted from The Conversation Picture by Roy Zuo The...
A ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements is the absolute minimum the UK could do towards meeting its obligations to international law, but even that is far too much for the powerful Israel lobby. Ben Jamal is a British Palestinian...
I've been writing for more than a decade and a half about a broad category of metals often nowadays dubbed "strategic" because they are crucial to high-tech applications such as solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, flat screens, semiconductors,...
What the Makkah Agreement is Missing
Full ArticleOn August 7, 2026, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye signed a defence pact termed as the Makkah Defence Alliance. This is primarily an agreement for collective security, quite similar to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)’s Article 5. The official announcement...
UNGA 81: A United Nations at a Turning Point
Full ArticleThe Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Sevilla, 2025. Credit: Forus By Justina Kaluinaitė NEW YORK, Sep 7 2026 (IPS) The 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA81) opens tomorrow at a particularly important moment for multilateralism. The UN80 reform...
Russia will remain a key crude oil supplier to India, Russia’s Ambassador to India, Denis Alipov, said in an interview with Asian News International, in which he also criticized the planned U.S. legislation to slap tariffs on countries importing Russian...
On Tuesday at #DAC2026 I attended the exhibitor presentation, Synopsys: How Silicon Startups are Addressing the AI Memory Gap . Vikram Bhatia from Synopsys introduced the two presentations from Wenbo Yin, SVP of IC Design at TetraMem and R. Scott...
Copper is riding its longest weekly winning streak since 1994, and the physical market underneath the rally keeps getting thinner. Benchmark prices on the London Metal Exchange notched a 10th straight weekly gain through last Friday, trading near $14,300 a...
The Pentagon’s AI Rush Is Creating a Security Weakness The Department of War just announced at the end of August that it is expanding GenAI.mil with ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government , adding more corporate AI directly into the daily...
In recent years, the space around Kaliningrad has been getting tighter. Poland is building fortifications along the Russian border, Lithuania is restricting transit under the sanctions regime, NATO is strengthening its presence in the Baltic, and Western military officials are...
China has paused approvals for new battery storage factories amid a review of existing and planned capacity, Chinese financial news outlet Cailianshe reported this weekend, citing industry sources. The temporary suspension of approvals of plants that have not started construction...
Germany's political landscape shifted sharply to the right on Sunday, September 6, as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a record result in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt. The party secured 43.8 percent of the vote, more than twice the...
Legislative elections in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt have ended with a huge victory for the nationalist-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD). The final results have AfD with just under 44% percent of the vote and the incumbent Christian Democrats (CDU)...
Back on June 4, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were all smiles amid the ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of Uzbekistan’s first cluster of nuclear reactors, to be built by Russia’s nuclear entity Rosatom. “I am...
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have found themselves at the center of a major crisis following news investigations by leading U.S. media outlets that exposed their involvement in developing and deploying chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict against the Rapid...
Bottom line: Documented Ukrainian graft becomes diplomatic leverage on its own schedule, independent of its dollar value — the 2024 $40 million case and 2025’s NABU/SAPO law both proved that. This time, the reformer who was closing the exact loophole...
The global power of most Middle Eastern countries remains dependent on their oil and/or gas output, so it is little wonder they try to maximise this, either by pushing production higher or by pretending it is higher, or by forecasting...
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