“My legs were shaking and my hands and my head were hurting a lot. I felt like a rock.” That was how nine-year-old Odai Shanah described feeling on 18 May at the Islamic Center of San Diego, where...
By Alexis PAPACHELAS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Athens’ frustration over the recent incident with the Ukraine-built sea drone found in the Ionian Sea is perfectly justified. It is outrageous that a...
Russia pounded Kyiv with a massive missile and drone attack that killed four people, authorities said Sunday, after President Vladimir Putin threatened retaliation for strikes in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine . Multiple rounds of loud explosions were heard in the Ukrainian...
By Laura W. BRILL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su At The Civics Center, we counter a cycle of despair by turning voter registration into a twice-yearly event, placing students at the center,...
The visits of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to Beijing revealed not only contrasting diplomatic styles but also a shifting global balance in which China is increasingly building a long-term Eurasian framework alongside Russia. For more than a decade, Western...
Measured on a scale from 0 (low decline) to 10 (high decline), these 15 nations are suffering the world’s most severe economic deterioration according to the 2024 Economic Decline Index. Syria ranks first with a near-maximum score of 9.9, followed...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to...
The announcement of a potential deal between the US and Iran, following months of conflict, has seen scathing backlash from prominent Iran hawks in the US, as well as a growing criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
BRICS has become central to geopolitics and the economy. The bloc already far surpasses the international role of the G7. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su BRICS is now a common topic in...
JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed on Sunday a dirt road with earthen mounds and destroyed vital water networks in the Atouf plain located east of Tamoun town south of Tubas, in a step that comes within a series...
The upcoming SCO summit is much more than a routine diplomatic meeting. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Will the SCO’s architecture foster Eurasian governance? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), established in 2001,...
The triumph of compassion and human solidarity will overcome conflict born out of malice and lies, and it will endure by inspiring others. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The political sickness of...
GAZA, (PIC) In Gaza, the approach of Eid al-Adha no longer means crowded markets, or the sounds of livestock that used to fill the streets and popular neighborhoods, but has rather become associated with scenes of displacement, hunger, and deprivation, in...
GAZA, (PIC) Eid al-Adha approaches this year in the Gaza Strip amid a scene completely different from previous seasons, after the manifestations of crowding and active movement disappeared from the popular markets, in light of the continuous Israeli war and the...
Members of Turkey ’s main opposition party were locked in a standoff Sunday outside the party headquarters with most members refusing entry to the new court-ordered leadership . The standoff at the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, has been...
Hundreds of Turkish riot police using teargas forced their way into the Ankara headquarters of the main opposition party on Sunday after a court dismissed its leadership . Party members had blocked the building's entrances, defying the court...
A blast targeting a train carrying military personnel killed at least 24 people on Sunday in Pakistan 's turbulent southwestern province of Balochistan, a senior official said. Army servicemen were among the victims of the attack in the provincial capital...
Iran on Sunday hanged a man convicted of espionage, the judiciary said, the first known execution for a spying offence committed during the war with Israel and the United States . "Mojtaba Kian... who sent information related to the...
Ustadh Justin Parrott explores how the Hajj ritual of stoning the Jamaraat has a deeper spiritual meaning for all of us to internalize and take forward into our lives. Read his article on the topic here . Ustadh Justin...
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank / PNN / A rapidly worsening outbreak of scabies is spreading through sections housing Palestinian prisoners in several Israeli prisons, amid what rights groups describe as systematic medical neglect and deteriorating detention conditions. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said...
A reported draft agreement between the US and Iran aimed at ending the current regional conflict would include a 60-day ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz , partial sanctions relief for Tehran, and...
As an estimated 15 million people are preparing to travel across Türkiye during the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday, a massive travel rush expected to generate nearly 200 billion Turkish Liras ($4.4 billion) in economic activity through family visits, coastal vacations...
Israel's Supreme Court this week upheld the government's draconian new NGO registration rules , paving the way for dozens of international aid agencies to be banned from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The court on Wednesday unanimously...
Staff at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy are overseeing the repatriation of ‘the shiest antelope’ from western zoos to their native east African country “We are bringing the boys home,” says Ngenoh Erick Kibet, a wildlife officer at the Mount Kenya...
In the first days of May 2026, the Pentagon announced the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 American troops from Germany over the next six to twelve months — with explicit threats of further cuts directed at Italy and Spain. President Donald...
GAZA, (PIC) In a precedent that is the first since the outbreak of the Israeli war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, doctors at the Eye Hospital in Gaza City succeeded in performing a cornea transplant operation for a Palestinian female...
Bethlehem / PNN / Western countries have warned construction companies that they could face sanctions if they bid on settlement construction tenders in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, which Israel is expected to publish early next month. In a...
Many UK Muslims are feeling anxious and afraid ahead of the Islamic celebration of Eid al-Adha this week, as it comes following rising Islamophobia , including far-right marches and a mosque shooting in San Diego last week....
Not since Neville Chamberlain returned from negotiating with Hitler in Munich on September 30, 1938 have we seen such a spectacle of deception and false hope. Trump, using his Truth Social platform, has been busy this weekend proclaiming: An...
- US President Donald Trump said on Saturday night that a peace deal with Iran has been "largely negotiated". Details of the agreement are expected to be made public in the coming hours. - - Unconfirmed reports suggests the two...
- US President Donald Trump said on Saturday night that a peace deal with Iran has been "largely negotiated". Details of the agreement are expected to be made public in the coming hours. - - Unconfirmed reports suggests the two...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Jewish settler groups resumed their assaults in various areas of the West Bank last night and on Sunday morning, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), targeting Palestinian property and trees. According to media sources, a horde...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Sunday, injuring two Palestinian citizens and kidnaping others. In Qalqilya, Israeli forces stormed the city and broke into homes in the al-Naqqar...
Lifting sanctions on Russian energy products at a time when there is a Iran war-induced crisis is drawing the usual firestorm regarding loyalty to Ukraine Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He...
Two Britons are among activists being tried in Germany after targeting an Israeli weapons factory last year John McEvoy is Chief Reporter for Declassified UK Karsen Trull is the Press Officer at CAGE International Cross-posted from Declassified UK The ‘Ulm 5’, including Britons...
More than 20,000 attacks on markets, farmland and food distribution systems have been recorded since 2018 Hunger is being increasingly exploited as a weapon of war with more than 20,000 documented incidents of “food-related violence” in the past eight years, new...
GAZA, (PIC) Five Palestinian civilians were martyred, including three from the same family, and others were injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 227th consecutive day. According to local sources, Samih Darduna was...
Azerbaijan is rapidly moving closer to the United States and NATO as Washington redirects its geopolitical focus from the Russo-Ukrainian War toward the South Caucasus. Azerbaijan’s expanding military, political, and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Four Palestinian citizens were injured in an attack carried out on Saturday evening by extremist Jewish settlers in the Wadi al-Rakhim area of Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil, amid other settler attacks targeting Palestinian communities north of Jericho in...
Not since Neville Chamberlain returned from negotiating with Hitler in Munich on September 30, 1938 have we seen such a spectacle of deception and false hope. Trump, using his Truth Social platform, has been busy this weekend proclaiming: An...
I wrote yesterday that the United States and Iran were on the verge of an agreement. Trump appeared to confirm as much a few hours ago with an unusually disciplined Truth Social post — grammatically coherent, diplomatically measured, and notably...
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned the Senegalese football supporters jailed after violence at the 2025 AFCON final in Rabat for "humanitarian reasons", a royal court statement said on Saturday. It said that in view "of the age-old fraternal...
Coal miners in the sleepy Chinese county of Qinyuan sometimes dine at Zhang’s skewer eatery, especially on payday, so a gas explosion that killed at least 82 of these workers left her feeling sorrow for their bereaved families. Rescue workers...
Ten people have been injured on a flight between Brisbane, Australia and Hong Kong that encountered turbulence. Medics boarded flight CX156 when it arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday, May 24, 2026, after crew and passengers sustained injuries during a...
British and Irish activists who were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla seized and deported by Israel returned to London and Dublin on Saturday, following global condemnation over their treatment. Among the Irish activists who arrived at Dublin Airport via...
On a spring night in 2023, Fung Hon-shing was driving on Fei Ngo Shan Road in Sai Kung when he discovered over a hundred newts that had been run over by vehicles. Some had died, while some were on the...
Officers at a White House checkpoint responded to gunshots on Saturday evening, and a shooting suspect was "down" and taken to a hospital, a law enforcement official told Reuters . A person approached the checkpoint at 17th Street...
Outraged if belated reactions came across the world after yet another brutal Israeli military misadventure seized a flotilla of civilian activists trying to relieve the people of a genocide-struck Gaza. As in autumn 2025, Israeli naval commandos raided the Global...
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