UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has launched an interagency task force to help secure the passage of fertilizers through the Strait of Hormuz, his spokesperson announced on Friday. "As the conflict in the Middle East unfolds and threatens to intensify, disruptions...
Between March 24 and March 27, Iran and its allied militias continued launching drones and missiles against Arab countries. The attacks targeted energy infrastructure, airports, military facilities, ports, and residential areas in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain,...
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Friday they were ready to intervene militarily if other countries joined the United States and Israel in their war against Iran, or if the Red Sea was used to launch attacks on the...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday he saw European readiness to help form a coalition against Iranian control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz after US-Israeli attacks unleashed a regional war. Rubio joined top diplomats from the...
Hamas is weighing a new proposal for disarming its fighters in Gaza, a major concession that would clear the way for US President Donald Trump’s plan for rebuilding the war-ravaged territory. How Hamas responds, expected in the coming days...
An earlier version of this article was published by Pacific Forum. When Donald Trump told reporters in February 2026 that he had discussed Taiwan arms sales with Xi Jinping, the headlines wrote themselves. Commentators warned of betrayal; Taiwanese talk shows...
Reports citing Western officials suggest that Russia has started supplying Iran with complete drones after Russia was previously suspected of only providing components to improve Iranian systems. The unmanned aerial systems are likely modified, Russian-made versions of the same Shahed-136...
China has launched two trade-barrier investigations into US practices and measures that Beijng suspects disrupt global production and supply chains and restrict Chinese exports, particularly in green technology sectors. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on Friday (March 27) that...
The European vassals have no backbone or principles. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Mark Rutte, the Dutch NATO secretary general, endured a tough onslaught of public abuse this week from European politicians...
Proposed law sanctions public statements ‘presenting acts of terrorism as legitimate resistance’ and creates a new offence punishing ‘incitement to the destruction or denial of a state’ Read Article HERE Photo: By Guallendra – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=140648943 The post...
For decades, Israeli and international activists have put their bodies on the line to prevent the expulsion of Palestinian communities. But if they no longer deter violent settlers and soldiers, can they still make a difference? The post In the...
ADC Sues City of Miami Beach for Silencing Pro-Palestine Speech The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) today filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Miami Beach, its mayor Steven Meiner, and several other city officials for violating the First Amendment rights...
In this week’s episode of the MintCast podcast hosted by MintPress director Mnar Adley, we are joined by Iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh to talk about Trump’s miscalculation in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Twenty-seven days into the U.S.-Israeli war...
Openly declaring its intent to illegally occupy southern Lebanon, Israel finds itself in a costly ground battle with Hezbollah, from which there are indications Syria may soon be roped in. This is born from the understanding that in order to...
Heeb Magazine offers new podcast, and join Heeb Media Guild Your friends at Heeb have been busy! In this issue: It’s a podcast network! We found your long lost Heeb t-shirt Does Bibi belong in jail? A nostalgic newsletter for...
On March 25, during a massive drone attack in the Leningrad region, the Ukrainian General Staff announced that its “joint forces” had damaged the Vyborg Shipbuilding installation. Whoever carried it out and how, the attaack’s success was a huge disaster for...
Jared Kushner tells it straight on Gaza and Iran at FII Conference By Ray Hanania Miami, Fl – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, a Special Peace Envoy for Gaza and Ukraine, acknowledged during a presentation at the Future Investment...
Should Iran be able to maintain its choke-hold on the Hormuz, the geo-politics of Asia would be recast in a new strategic reality Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the...
CAIR-Chicago Stands with Mayor Brandon Johnson in Affirming Equal Protection Against All Hate Crimes (CHICAGO, IL, 3/27/2026) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Chicago office (CAIR-Chicago), today expressed its strong support for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s position that all hate crimes must...
Trump is dangerous not simply because of his imbecility and unbridled narcissism, but because he lacks the core attributes of empathy and understanding that define the human soul Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent...
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 truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other Jonathan Cook is the...
Now that the Weekend War That Wasn’t is in its fourth week, it’s becoming clear that just about everything to do with its progress, as well as its origins and its potential consequences, is covered in hopeless confusion Cross-posted from...
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa intends to visit the UK and Germany next week in trips focused on the economy, as the country continues to re-engage with the international community following years of isolation and sanctions during the...
I wrote previously that I expected Donald Trump to order US ground forces to commence an attack on Iran, perhaps as early as Friday night in Tehran. Looks like that is on hold. Apart from weather problems in the Persian...
Washington resembles an aging steam boiler attempting to change course at full speed. Donald Trump declares his desire to exit the Ukrainian case, yet the system resists. The inertia of propaganda and the financial appetite of lobbyists act like a...
Israel's opposition on Thursday signalled an end to the political consensus over the war against Iran - a conflict the military now says requires far more combat troops, particularly in Lebanon . "I want to warn the citizens...
BEIRUT, (PIC) In a scene overflowing with sorrow, the Arab world on Thursday bid farewell to an exceptional voice that remained present in the conscience of peoples for decades, with the passing of the Lebanese artist Ahmed Kaabour at the age...
How long will Gulf States bleed for war on Iran that the United States and Israel are waging? That’s a question a recent Newsweek article posed. According to the reporting, specialists from all six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim has firmly rejected proposals by former UN envoy Nikolay Mladenov that link resistance weapons in Gaza to administrative and security arrangements, including the deployment of international forces and reconstruction efforts. Naim said the plan...
QALANDIA, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred and another one was injured when Israeli forces opened fire at them in Qalandia refugee camp, north of Occupied Jerusalem, on Friday. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that 46-year-old Sufyan Abu Leil succumbed to bullet...
Chinese airlines are increasing the number of flights between China and Europe by nearly 2,900 during the summer season, according to the Hong Kong-based publication South China Morning Post. In doing so, they are fully exploiting a key competitive advantage over...
Iraq’s political deadlock over the prime ministership has entered its fifth month, with mounting pressure on former premier Nouri al-Maliki to withdraw his candidacy amid US opposition and shifting positions within the ruling pro-Iran alliance. The crisis, which...
The United States can only determine with certainty that it has destroyed about a third of Iran's vast missile arsenal as the US and Israeli war on the country nears its one-month mark, according to five...
Dozens of countries around the world are drawing up plans to restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz , which has slowed to a trickle since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran. Iran's attacks in the Gulf...
Shot entirely on an iPhone 15, Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25” is a modern fable about one woman’s moral spiral in an interconnected world. It begins when government bailiff Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) evicts a homeless man from the basement in which...
Emirati towns and cities experienced a nother night of heavy rain on Thursday evening, just as authorities were preparing to clean up flooded streets following another deluge earlier this week. Storms hit the UAE on Thursday night, causing flash...
While attention has shifted to the conflicts in Iran and Lebanon, Gaza remains under a fragile ceasefire, with ongoing low-level clashes. High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov highlighted progress toward a disarmament framework tied to UN-backed plans. Despite this, Hamas...
More than 1,700 people were killed, nearly 200,000 displaced and multiple actors including Syrian government forces, tribal fighters and Druze armed groups committed acts that may amount to war crimes during a week of violence in southern...
Chief Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies, Vladimir Vasiliev, explains why the United States delayed a strike on Iran and whether negotiations remain possible. The expert analyzes escalation risks, the scenario of a ground operation, and...
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has made an unexpected move-one whose consequences may be felt across the region. The focus is on negotiations between the United States and Belarus, partial sanctions relief, the motives behind it, and the hidden interests shaping...
People across the US and around the world are getting ready for mass pro-democracy and anti-Trump demonstrations in thousands of towns and cities. The third "No Kings" demonstration is expected to be among the largest to date since US...
On Feb. 28 , videos emerged online showing the aftermath of the Iran war ’s opening strikes on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. In one video taken on Pastor Street, a few alleys away from the compound,...
On 16 March, Pakistan was suspected of carrying out a deadly airstrike on a drug treatment hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Over 400 people are estimated to have been killed. Pakistani officials insist the strike did not target civilians,...
- - - - Photo by krzhck on Unsplash I honestly don’t believe I have to do this, but it seems that we’re at the point where Peter Jackson’s masterpiece The Lord of the Rings trilogy is...
Iran has threatened to target the presidential palace in the Syrian capital Damascus , as well as two luxury hotels, as part of what it calls its campaign against US interests in the region. The semi-official Iranian Fars News...
NewsGuard , a company that rates news outlets’ accuracy using what it calls “apolitical journalistic criteria … to identify reliable sources of information,” has filed a lawsuit to block the Federal Trade Commission’s demand for a list of all...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police prevented Palestinian citizens from performing Friday prayer today on Salahuddin Street in east Jerusalem as the closure of the Aqsa Mosque entered day 28. Local sources reported today that police forces stormed Salahuddin Street, giving...
PARIS — At the head of the March 8 International Women’s Day march in Paris this year, Gisèle Pelicot walked slowly through the crowd, flanked by her daughter, Caroline Darian. Around them, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets, their placards...
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