Tehran is preparing for the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in what authorities are portraying as both a historic farewell and a demonstration of national unity under the country's new leadership. More than 100 days...
The 2026 G7 summit, in Evian, France, marks India’s 13th participation as a guest nation and Prime Minister Modi’s seventh appearance as India’s representative since 2019. These repeated invitations highlight a central reality: India is too important to be excluded...
President Trump said that a two-page memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran that will end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz. But will this deal bring about a...
By Marta HAVRYSHKO Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In their zeal to deconstruct Russian propaganda, Western elites have tried to hide the fact there are Third Reich extremists among Kyiv’s ranks. When...
US President Donald Trump has publicly criticised Israel's military tactics in Lebanon , saying whole residential buildings should not be bombed in the alleged pursuit of Hezbollah fighters. Speaking at the G7 summit in Evian, France,...
Back in the late 1990s, Sente launched a product called WattWatcher to estimate power from design RTL and simulation activity. This was revolutionary for its time since alternatives, while very accurate, only offered power analysis at the gate level. Gate-level...
UN rights experts warned Wednesday that a British couple on a lengthy hunger strike in an Iranian jail were at serious risk, charging their detention could amount go "hostage-taking". Lindsay Foreman and her husband Craig were detained during a...
As a child, British Somali actress and playwright Adna Ahmed often found herself obsessing over comedians. She recalls always doing the same thing whenever she discovered a new comic personality. "I would go onto their Wikipedia page and read about their...
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday said his country had been cooperating "under the radar" with Somaliland for years, as he met with the breakaway African state's president. In December, Israel became the first country to recognise the independence...
For much of the last two decades, the Taliban fought its war with rifles, roadside bombs and guerrilla ambushes. Today, one of its most important battlefields lies not in the mountains of Afghanistan but in the information domain. The Islamic...
If there is one conclusion to be drawn from the latest confrontation involving Iran, the United States, and Israel , it is the remarkably short life of Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine. Trump returned to power promising...
As regional powers and international diplomats focus on the implications of the recent US-Iran ceasefire and the prospect of all-out violence, residents of eastern Gaza City are confronting a very different reality. Over recent nights, Israeli forces...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A total of 107 Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday morning under heavy protection from Israeli occupation police forces, the Islamic Waqf Department in occupied Jerusalem said. The settlers entered through the Maghareba Gate in successive...
Israel's mass evacuation orders and restrictions on civilians returning to their homes in southern Lebanon amount to unlawful transfer, a war crime under international humanitarian law, according to a new investigation by Amnesty International . The rights group...
Don’t miss your chance win two tickets to see Irish sporting legend Katie Taylor defend her world titles in her last ever bout, which will be one of the biggest nights in Irish boxing history. With thanks to a kind...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces continued their attacks on southern Lebanon on Wednesday despite a ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran that reportedly includes the Lebanese front, as Tehran warned of a severe response if Israeli strikes persist. Towns across southern...
By Li YANG Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Speaking at a forum hosted by the Center for American Progress on Tuesday, shortly after US President Donald Trump concluded his second visit to...
The mainstream US legacy media's complicit role in Israel's genocide in Gaza has been well documented. Adam Johnson's book How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (Pluto Press, 2026) goes a step...
With the 2026 World Cup now underway across Mexico, the United States and Canada, Arab football is enjoying its largest-ever presence on the global stage. The tournament's expansion from 32 to 48 teams has enabled eight Arab nations to...
Venezuela’s acting president visited India to revive oil ties and offer heavy crude as an alternative to Russian supplies, with the US quietly backing the move. “Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way” (Isaac...
Tensions have risen in the Iraqi city of Samarra after the leadership of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) removed the city's operations commander and appointed a replacement reportedly affiliated with Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a move strongly opposed by...
Weakened in the Middle East, Iran is left in control of the Strait of Hormuz. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Anyone would be skeptical about the sustainability of the “peace” taking shape...
A senior official in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has revealed that most SDF members have been integrated into Syrian state structures, while around 8,000 fighters are still awaiting the completion of arrangements for their absorption. The process is...
The Hong Kong government has awarded more than HK$1.4 billion to parents with newborns since it implemented a cash handout scheme three years ago. Although it was aimed at boosting the city’s birth rate, there was a record-low number of...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) In a scene that summarizes the path of Israeli policy towards the occupied West Bank, the extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stood before a crowd of settlers on a hill south of al-Khalil, to announce what he described...
A rare glimpse of a snow leopard prowling through the high-altitude wilderness of Kangchendzonga National Park, captured by a trail camera. Credit: WWF/Sikkim By Diwash Gahatraj SIKKIM, India, Jun 17 2026 (IPS) The tea arrives before the conversation starts. Jayanta...
The statement issued by the US State Department following a closed-door meeting between US Presidential Special Envoy for Syria and Iraq Tom Barrack and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in Baghdad on Monday appeared as a series of...
Moscow continues advancing strategic integration with Asian nations – the West reacts with disinformation. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The commemorative summit marking 35 years of dialogue between Russia and the Association...
CAPITALS, (PIC) Talking about the trends of global solidarity with Palestine is no longer a marginal matter measured by the number of official statements or the volume of seasonal coverage. What has been happening in recent years, and especially since the...
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in a village north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the local mayor said. The incident comes amid an increase in attacks against Palestinian communities by fanatical Israeli settlers...
How the militarist drift subverts community law and enriches the U.S. military-industrial complex. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The problem of the European Union is not only a total disconnect between what it represents and the...
On May 12, 2026, the China Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia issued a sharply worded open letter to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, saying that Chinese firms operating locally have been burdened by stringent regulations, arbitrary law enforcement, and corruption and...
"Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?" a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told The New Arab . The man, who is visibly Sikh and wears a...
Abdiqadir Salah was pierced by shrapnel in a bombing that killed 12 in Somalia. But as the US denies civilians were hurt they face no hope of compensation theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/16/somalia-us-trump-war-alshabaab-islamists-drone-airstrikes-civilian-deaths-children">Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of...
Credit: HuyNguyenSG/iStock by Getty Images. Source: IMF By Kristalina Georgieva WASHINGTON DC, Jun 17 2026 (IPS) More than three months into the war in the Middle East, the global economy appears to be holding up. Commodity prices, inflation and expectations...
Progressives had another big night in the Democratic primaries , with a democratic socialist leading in the mayoral race in Washington, DC and a Palestinian American progressive, Ruwa Romman, winning a state primary in Georgia. As of late...
New Tunisia head coach Hervé Renard held his first practice with the squad on Tuesday, shortly after replacing Sabri Lamouchi, who was fired after the team's 5-1 thumping by Sweden . The 57-year-old Frenchman had four days to get the...
The Ebola outbreak sweeping the region has become an excuse for the United States to seize control of Kenya’s strategically important Laikipia Air Base. This raises serious questions about Washington’s true intentions and its attitude toward Kenya. Satellite imagery from...
By CIVICUS Jun 17 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses a proposed United Nations (UN) tax treaty with Jenny Ricks, General Secretary of Fight Inequality Alliance, a global movement that organises to counter the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of...
MOU, minus 3 and counting. What is in the actual memo? Israeli politicians and their Zionist collaborators in the United States are going wild after seeing Iranian press reports that outline the deal that Donald Trump is prepared to sign...
Jordan can hold their heads up high after delivering an "honourable performance" on their 2026 World Cup debut, coach Jamal Sellami said following his side's 3-1 defeat by Austria in Group J on Tuesday. Austria took the lead...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued overnight and early Wednesday raids across multiple areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem, carrying out searches, arrests, and field interrogations. In Nablus, IOF troops entered the city and the New Askar refugee...
On May 28, 2025, a localized skirmish along the Thailand-Cambodia border rapidly escalated into one of the region’s most significant military conflicts in recent decades. More than a year later, a tenuous ceasefire is in place, and recent talks —...
NEGEV, (PIC) Israeli authorities on Tuesday forced the owners of 20 homes in the unrecognized village of Al-Sirr in the occupied Negev to demolish their own houses, in one of the largest home demolition operations in the region in recent years. According...
Overcoming political divisions between Pro-France Loyalists and the Pro-Independence movement is a major challenge in ongoing negotiations between the French Government and leaders in New Caledonia to define the territory's future political status. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS By Catherine Wilson SYDNEY, Jun...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The occupied West Bank and Jerusalem witnessed a major escalation overnight and into Wednesday morning, marked by coordinated Israeli military raids and a wave of settler attacks targeting Palestinian communities, homes, and property. Violence intensified across several areas in...
Islam Times - Bloomberg News has released details of a memorandum of understanding [MoU] reached between Tehran and Washington, whose central provision stipulates that both countries and their respective allies will declare an immediate and permanent end to military operations...
Islam Times - What a difference a year makes! Last June, in the wake of the first joint “Israeli”-US attack on Iran, a joke was making the rounds in the Middle East. It described a bartender welcoming an American, an...
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