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Two months after another disputed presidential election victory in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni remains unsettled by pressure from opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The pop star-turned-politician known as Bobi Wine has since moved from the streets of Kampala to self-imposed exile...

The latest technology can prove decisive in war. Think of the atomic bomb in World War II. Or the stirrup in the Mongol conquest of Europe and the Middle East. More recently, after the two sides had been deadlocked...

Amidst the turbulent backdrop of Trump’s war on Iran, perhaps the most baffling development to date: Neoconservatives coming out of the woodwork … and making sense. In a recent piece for The Atlantic, Robert Kagan, eminent primacist and once ardent...

In a matter of months, former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg has swung through the infamous government-industry revolving door and is now advising a drone startup where he can profit directly from his recent diplomatic work and proximity...

At the border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, along the road separating the Lebanese highlands from the Qalamoun mountains, Syrian families are gathering. This time, they are not arriving in search of safety, but leaving Lebanon after years of displacement. The...

The Cabinet announced on Tuesday evening that 10 state-owned companies had been temporarily listed on the Egyptian Exchange, one of several measures to develop the state’s privatization program it said has prompted “great interest and praise” from international institutions. Observers...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are holding talks in China to try to find a way to end months of conflict sparked by cross-border attacks, two officials from Islamabad told AFP news agency on Wednesday. The meeting in the...

Netanyahu pitched the war as a repeat of Israel’s apparent ‘audacious feat’ of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. Trump’s speech tonight, Wednesday 1 April, will be interesting in light...

Underground hospitals across Israel are reportedly being faced with overcrowding issues and the spread of diseases, as thousands of Israelis are either receiving treatment or sheltering amid the country’s war on Iran with the US, local media reported. Doctors have...

As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical and symbolic politics can help...

Atouf, West Bank - In the Jordan Valley village of Atouf, Palestinian farmers are hauling ladders, fences, and other agricultural equipment into their pick-up truck - preparing to leave their lands. “I invested NIS 150,000 [$48,800] in planting...

US President Donald Trump will address the nation on the Iran war on Wednesday, his first prime-time speech since the conflict began, as plunging approval ratings and rising economic anxiety deepen political pressure at home. The White House has given...

Pro-Iran factions in Iraq are embarking on a recruitment drive to enlist volunteers to fight alongside Iranian forces in the event of a US ground offensive. Several armed Shia groups mobilised in response to the US-Israel war on Iran...

No one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin’. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su China and Pakistan released a joint 5-points statement...

The search for kidnapped US journalist Shelly Kittleson and her abductors is currently underway in the vicinity of Iraq's capital Baghdad, security officials familiar with the matter told The New Arab on Wednesday. The investigation and pursuit...

Artisanal miners work at a mercury-free processing site in Bushiangala, Ikolomani, Kakamega County, Kenya. Credit: Chemtai Kirui/IPS By Chemtai Kirui KAKAMEGA, Kenya, Apr 1 2026 (IPS) They call this land Bushiangala. Gold has been mined here for nearly a century. In...

This story was originally published by High Country News and The Border Chronicle . I n 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center...

On March 26 , President Donald Trump paused threatened attacks on Iran’s energy plants for another 10 days, said he was doing so at Tehran’s request and insisted that talks were going “very well.” The same president who, days...

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . It’s not just easy to miss , but often downright hard to notice. A simple patch of greenery in a city may...

- - - - Photo by Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira on Unsplash By the time many of you read this, Artemis II will have gone up toward the heavens, starting its journey to the...

Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham, two prominent pro-Palestine activists in the UK, were found guilty of public order offences on Wednesday, in what has been described as a chilling measure against pro-Palestine activism. Standing trial at Westminster Magistrates Court...

Spanish police said on Wednesday that they were investigating "Islamophobic and xenophobic" chants that were heard during the Spain-Egypt international football match in Barcelona , which the government said "embarrass us as a society". Egypt's national anthem was also jeered...

Elias al-Maari opens his Damascus restaurant every morning, knowing the authorities could walk in at any moment. His license expired months ago. The governorate will not renew it. He serves alcohol anyway. "The violation is theirs, not mine," he says. A few...

By Jonathan COOK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The...

Several tropes have emerged around Syrian interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa's first visit to the UK , some shaped by Islamophobic discourse about his past, and others reflecting deep divisions within the country. There have been massacres on the coast and...

WEST BANK, (PIC) A comprehensive strike paralyzed various aspects of life across the cities and towns of the occupied West Bank today, Wednesday, in rejection of the prisoner execution law approved by the Israeli Knesset, amid a state of widespread popular...

What remains of the U.S. presence in Iraq had already been targeted by the PMF, writes Eduardo Vasco. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Another country has joined the war against the United...

Azmi Bishara's book, ISIS: The March to Dystopia , published by I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury in 2025, offers one of the most detailed studies of the rise and expansion of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) group. Adapted from an earlier Arabic...

Pope Leo XIV is preparing to celebrate Easter for the first time as pontiff a year after his predecessor's death, as concerns grow among Christians over the Middle East war. Holy Week began with a clash in the Holy Land...