On 5 March, thousands of people, including many children, fled their homes in the south and the southern suburbs of Beirut, with many gathering in the streets or attempting to reach safer areas. Children are among the most affected as...
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...
Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region dread the US-Israeli military operation and...
The narrative of seizing Iranian oil has intensified amongst officials in the Trump administration, Congress, and pro-war media commentators. The discourse seeks to revive a colonial logic of taking a country’s resources while attacking it and disregarding international...
On a chilly Monday just before Thanksgiving, residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania, hurried from work in the fading autumn light to snag seats in the old brick Borough Building for a 5 p.m. borough council meeting. After the roughly 50 seats quickly filled, people...
A group of US lawmakers on Friday announced they had introduced the Justice for Hind Rajab Act, which would compel the US government to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab in...
The Israeli army dropped a large number of leaflets over the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, some of which call on citizens to demand the disarmament of Hezbollah and insist that the decision should be in their hands rather than...
Israel’s escalating military campaign in Lebanon has led many analysts and observers to ask whether the tactics used in the genocidal war on Gaza are now being applied on a new front. Israeli strikes across Lebanon...
More than a year ago, the UK agreed to grant Mauritius sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, which Britain has governed as the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1965. But the treaty to transfer sovereignty has hit choppy waters. The deal...
Late on the night of 7 March 2026, massive explosions lit up Tehran's skyline as Israeli airstrikes struck multiple fuel depots and oil facilities on the capital's outskirts, sending towering fireballs into the sky and thick plumes of...
As Israel's bombardment of Lebanon forces hundreds of thousands from their homes and deepens an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis, Palestinian refugees in the country find themselves once again on the front lines of regional upheaval. Many...
Concern is growing over the fate of two journalists who went missing in the Syrian city of Raqqa on January 18, the day it was captured by Syrian government troops from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)....
A Turkish-owned ship that had been waiting near Iran was allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz after authorities received permission from Tehran, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said. In comments to Turkish media on Thursday...
Israel has rebuffed a historic offer of direct talks from Lebanon, deeming it too little too late from a government that shares its goal of disarming Hezbollah but cannot act against the heavily armed Lebanese group without...
Israel has rebuffed a historic offer of direct talks from Lebanon, deeming it too little too late from a government that shares its goal of disarming Hezbollah but cannot act against the heavily armed Lebanese group without...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the country's military, warned on Friday that any new protests against the authorities would be met with a stronger response than in January, when several thousand people were killed. "The evil enemy,...
Australia has ordered all non-essential officials in Lebanon to leave, Canberra's foreign minister said Friday, after issuing the same command to diplomats in Israel and the United Arab Emirates. In a post on X, top diplomat Penny Wong...
The small Caribbean island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis has been making headlines . At the center of the attention is “ Destiny ,” an effort spearheaded by Belgian cryptocurrency millionaire Olivier Janssens to create a special economic...
At a Pentagon press conference Friday morning , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cheered about how U.S. operations against Iran have blunted Tehran’s munitions capacities and ability to fight. “Iran has no air defenses. Iran has no air force. Iran has...
Six countries have filed their interventions in South Africa's genocide case against Israel and the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The Netherlands and Iceland filed interventions in the case on Wednesday, while the...
Eleven people were injured on Friday after a missile left over from the Syria war exploded inside an abandoned military barracks in the Abbasiya area south of the city of Homs , according to local authorities. The blast...
The drumbeats for expanding our (and Israel’s) war with Iran are loud. Cable news panels talk about strategy. Politicians talk about deterrence. Pentagon briefings talk about targets and timelines. But there’s one thing missing from almost every conversation in Washington. Risk. Not the...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Take a look at the four images below and tell me what you see. If my life depended on it, I could not name a single one of the TV...
The first two weeks of the joint US-Israel war on Iran has been one fought primarily from the air , something that has not directly affected the lives of most Americans, but that could change if a ground...
The Israeli military said it has dropped all charges against five soldiers who were accused of violently sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee in a military detention facility, triggering outrage among activists and human rights experts. The decision...
Speaking at a military camp in Khartoum on Saturday, Sudanese Armed Forces Assistant Commander-in-Chief Yasser al-Atta signaled the start of a process to integrate all irregular forces that have fought alongside the military during the war into the state’s security...
Deadly explosions rocked Tehran close to a pro-government rally attended by top officials Friday, as Israel and Iran unleashed fresh strikes in a war that has ignited the Middle East and threatens to torpedo the world...
Iran’s participation in the 2026 FIFA World Cup has become increasingly uncertain amid rising geopolitical tensions and conflicting signals from political leaders and football authorities. The country has already qualified for the expanded 48-team tournament, which will...
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official...
A building in Dubai 's financial district was hit by debris from an intercepted attack Friday, witnesses and an AFP journalist saw, days after firms evacuated the area as Iran threatened US and Israeli-linked economic...
Russia could achieve digital sovereignty and build an internet capable of operating independently from the global network by 2028, according to a forecast by the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC). The forecast suggests that by the end of the decade...
Heavy Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s capital on Thursday killed two renowned university professors, triggering outrage from activists and commentators who drew parallels with the war on Gaza, when scores of academics and writers were killed. The professors...
Some Wang Fuk Court residents, including former members of the defunct owners’ corporation, will participate as involved parties in the upcoming probe hearings on the deadly Tai Po fire, HKFP has learned. Judge David Lok (centre), chair of the independent...
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...
Two people were killed by Iranian drones in Oman on Friday as Tehran continues its strikes across the Gulf , amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran. The two dead, both expatriates, were among several wounded after an...
By John & Nisha WHITEHEAD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Dysfunction, decadence, depravity and a death cult: that, in a nutshell, sums up the mindset now at the heart of the Trump...
Agentic AI emerges in this Synopsys Converge keynote not as a futuristic add-on, but as a practical response to the growing complexity of engineering. In the speaker’s view, the traditional way of designing chips, systems, and intelligent products is no...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A six year old Palestinian child was injured in the head on Friday after being deliberately run over by an Israeli settler in Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil. Activist Osama Makhmara reported that a settler from the Carmel settlement, built...
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...
Saraya Awliya al-Dam ("The Brigades of the Guardians of Blood"), an Iraq-based militia backed by Iran , on Wednesday, has launched a drone strike at targets inside Kuwait, according to the group's own statement and video evidence. Kuwaiti...
A barrage of Iranian rockets targeted the Galilee region in Israel, striking the in three waves within an hour, early on Friday morning. The attack has left at least 59 people injured in the town of Zarzir,...
JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC) The morning of the boy Ahmad Abdul Hadi Abiyat was not different from the rest of his days in the Jordan Valley. He went out at sunrise leading his flock toward the pastures near his home in the...
A Hong Kong independent bookstore owner has cited a former education minister in court to defend charges linked to a Spanish course held last year. Hong Kong independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming appears in the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on January...
NABLUS, (PIC) The Hamas Movement on Thursday praised two attacks carried out against Israeli targets, including a stabbing in the city of Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv and a car-ramming incident at the Za’tara junction south of Nablus in the West...
By Andrew DAY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su President Donald Trump really screwed up this time. And I’m talking raised-the-chances-of-nuclear-catastrophe levels of screwing-up. His war with Iran has sent energy markets into turmoil,...
Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians on Thursday near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, in what the Israeli military said was an attempted car ramming attack. "Two terrorists attempted to carry out a combined ramming and shooting...
A US KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq killing four crew members, the military said Friday, adding that the incident was not caused by "hostile fire." A second plane involved in the incident, which the military said...
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