Following the US-Israel strikes on Iran on February 28, major airlines canceled numerous flights to and from Middle Eastern countries, leaving many travelers stranded. This sparked a race between Beijing and Taipei to evacuate Taiwanese travelers from the region. On...
With the current Dutch government led by D’66s Rob Jetten, there will be no change in Dutch policy; on the contrary, it will get even worse. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Since...
Iran targeted countries across the Middle East with a fresh torrent of missiles on Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump signalled tentative progress in diplomatic efforts to end the war. Iran fired a salvo of "precision-guided" missiles and drones...
It seems that in practice and speech, the Taliban in the future will also have an informal approach towards Iran. But it will never move into an open alliance with Iran. The disputes and conflicts between the United States and...
QALQILYA, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers launched an arson attack on an agricultural structure in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, on Wednesday. Local sources reported that settlers infiltrated the northern side of Kafr Qaddum village, specifically in...
Iran reportedly struck and destroyed the US AN/TPY-2 radar deployed in Jordan during its ongoing war with the United States and Israel. What makes the AN/TPY-2 distinctive is that, despite operating in the X-band of the electromagnetic spectrum — which...
In late October 2023, Massachusetts-based independent publisher Interlink Publishing, one of the few Palestinian-owned publishers in the United States, launched a major promotion of its Palestinian catalogue on Amazon Ads. The aim, Harrison Williams , Interlink's Production and...
GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinians were martyred and several others were injured in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip last night and on Wednesday morning. According to Palestinian media sources, three people were martyred and others were wounded last night...
Disguised as a beggar, in Homer's The Odyssey , when Odysseus returns to Ithaca after 7300 days, or twenty years, he comes across his faithful old dog Argos, whom "he trained as a puppy." Argos has been a "castaway on...
Kaveh Madani, Director of the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health and lead author of the report entitled “Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era” briefs reporters at UN Headquarters. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider By Umar Manzoor...
Not many years ago, Marine Corps strategists and the Commandant declared that long-range precision weapons and ubiquitous satellite surveillance had made amphibious operations too risky, if not obsolete. Any amphibious fleet, the argument went, would be spotted and sunk. The...
By Asoka Bandarage COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits member states from using threats or force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. Violating international law, the United States...
I’ll give you my answer up front… NO! Trump’s claims on Monday and Tuesday that the US and Iran are talking is false in my opinion. During previous talks with Iran — including the last round in Geneva on February...
This is a story of the unintended consequences of a Pyrrhic victory celebrated 35 years ago as a history-making triumph. As the U.S. fights its latest war in the Persian Gulf — this time against Iran, the country that benefited...
As the Trump administration mulls a ground deployment in Iran, veterans fear a grueling, long-term campaign lies ahead — and that the U.S. military may be ill-prepared to sustain it. First of all, ongoing preparations and deployments suggest the administration has...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 18 March 2026. Uganda’s Constitutional Court has delivered a major ruling that has outlawed several sections of the Computer Misuse Act, Cap 96, and ordered the government and its agencies to...
Tehran has promised to ensure safe passage for vessels from all countries except those at war with it in the Strait of Hormuz, after Beijing intervened in the US-Iran conflict. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday told Chinese...
Grammy winner seeks more than $20m in damages over mistranslation of The Lion King chant A Grammy-winning South African composer who wrote and performed the opening chant in Circle of Life for Disney’s The Lion King is suing a...
When Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir addressed Pakistan’s parliamentary security committee in March 2025, he asked a question that had been hanging over the country for years. “How long will we continue to sacrifice countless lives in the style of...
The world has given Israel "a licence to torture Palestinians", a UN expert said Monday, with life in the occupied territories " a continuum of physical and mental suffering ". Francesca Albanese , the UN's special rapporteur on the rights...
- - - - On March 3, the Malaysian government was forced to slow the development of data server farms, the facilities housing networked computer servers that act as the backbone of digital services, cloud computing and websites. By 2030,...
Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday that Israeli strikes killed at least six people in a town and a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Sidon area, and three more in another town. Israel has stepped up its campaign against...
Libya 's security authorities on Tuesday recovered two exploded projectiles from a damaged crude oil pipeline of Sharara oilfield, said the Tripoli -based interior ministry in a statement. The ministry said in the statement the two exploded projectiles are an...
There is something revealing about the way Western governments talk about war when Iran is involved. The language changes almost instantly. Questions of legality fade into the background. Questions of power, stability, and markets move to the front. What is...
Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked...
U.N. Security Council members have begun negotiating resolutions to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz , including a Bahraini draft that would authorise the use of "all necessary means" — language France has warned will...
On March 23, Ashab al Yamin, a group with ties to the Islamic Republic, took responsibility for attacks in Antwerp and in London. The incidents raise the total number of claimed attacks by the Iran-linked group against Jewish and Western...
London's police chief pledged Monday over 250 more officers and "highly visible" armed patrols to protect the Jewish community after an arson attack on four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation next to a synagogue. The promise of...
Liverpool superstar forward Mohamed Salah announced on Tuesday that he will leave the Premier League club at the end of the season after a nine-year run as one of its greatest players. The club confirmed the news later, saying...
DOHA, (PIC) A delegation of senior leaders from Hamas Movement offered condolences on Tuesday evening to the victims of the Qatari plane crash during a visit to four mourning gatherings held in Doha. The delegation included Mohammed Nazzal and Abdel Jabbar Said,...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was killed by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, amid ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement. Medical sources reported that 13-year-old Khaled Saif al-Din Suleiman Arada was killed after...
Egyptian blogger Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan, better known by the moniker Mohamed Oxygen, has been freed after spending more than six years in prison for spreading fake news, according to the press freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF). "RSF, which awarded...
Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war the American leader once had...
The Islamic State’s Central Africa Province (ISCAP), known locally as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), raided and burned down a Chinese-owned mine in eastern Congo earlier this month. The raid, which was far from the jihadist group’s normal area of...
È ormai passato un mese da quando è iniziato questo vortice di catastrofi, l’aggressione di Stati Uniti e Israele contro l’Iran, e i segnali di un’alleanza che vacilla si fanno ogni giorno più evidenti. Segue nostro Telegram . “ Immaginate...
Over the past decade, capitals from Australia to France, India to Japan and South Korea to the UK, have rolled out Indo-Pacific strategies with the confidence of a shared script: that maritime coalitions stabilize the system, secure sea lanes and...
A ballistic missile launched from Iran fell in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, marking the first time that Iranian missiles have been intercepted over Lebanon. Reuters suggests that the missile could have been intercepted by a...
Trump blinked because he can’t afford the financial meltdown which would follow total war in the Middle East, but that doesn’t mean the war is over. Soumaya Ghannoushi is a British Tunisian writer and expert in Middle East politics. Her journalistic...
Europe is still unable to define and defend its own strategic interests. Dr Alain Gabon is Associate Professor of French Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach, USA. Cross-posted...
A critique of David Harvey’s new book, ‘The Story of Capital’. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Picture by Robert Crc Professor David Harvey...
As the U.S.-Israel-Iran war enters its third week, Pakistan is seeking to play a role as a bridge between Tehran, Washington and Riyadh. But by avoiding direct involvement in the war theatre next door, Islamabad is carrying out...
A useful round-up of the latest foreign policy news, especially from the Middle East. Read the article HERE . The post Dropsite News – Israel asserts control over southern Lebanon; 82,000 civilian targets struck in Iran, Red Crescent says;...
Israel said on Tuesday that its military would take control of south Lebanon up to the Litani River, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border, as deadly strikes pounded the country . In the latest unprecedented step by...
Global air travel remains severely disrupted, with many people still unable to fly as planned to destinations after the Iran war forced the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs , including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi. Below is the latest...
Syria's army said on Monday that one of its bases in the northeast was targeted by a missile attack from neighbouring Iraq , while an Iraqi official said a local armed group was behind the attack. "One of our military...
Israel announced on Tuesday that a strike it carried out near Beirut the day before killed a member of Iran's Quds Force , who a Lebanese security source said had survived a previous attack in the same area. On Monday...
Israel has been ramping up its targeting of Palestinians over the past week in Gaza, killing field commanders from Hamas’s and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wings, despite a months-long ceasefire in place. Yahya Fayez Abu Labda, the commander...
Just minutes before US President Donald Trump momentarily boosted the stock market – and sent oil prices tumbling – with his disputed Monday announcement of peace talks with Iran, unknown traders loaded up on positions that allowed them to profit from the resulting movement in equities...
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