The US has launched large-scale strikes on Iran's Kharg Island in the Gulf, with President Donald Trump saying that it had "totally obliterated every MILITARY target" on the Island. "I have chosen NOT to wipe out the...
The creative industry says new regulations could become a threat to free expression Originally published on Global Voices Advox Photo by Petr Trotsenko. Used with permission. This article was written by Nazerke Kurmangazinova for Vlast .kz, translated into...
Jordan Valley / PNN / On Friday, March 13, at 1:20am, around 30 masked Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian property in Humsa, northern Jordan Valley, where a family of 12 people live. The settlers first stormed a tent where one of the...
The Palestinian group Hamas on Saturday called on Iran to refrain from targeting neighbouring countries, while affirming Tehran's right to defend itself against Israel and the United States. "While affirming the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to...
On a rainy Ramadan afternoon, a mysterious traveler knocks on a troubled family’s door as they are about to eat iftar. This is a three part story. The three parts will be published three nights in a row, inshaAllah. Part...
A study suggests the German chancellor is struggling domestically as his party failed to win a key state election, while several European leaders face similarly weak approval ratings Read Article HERE Image: Olaf Kosinsky (kosinsky.eu) Licence: CC...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has reiterated its strong condemnation of the Zio-American aggression against Iran, stressing that it violates the rules of international law and international humanitarian law, and threatens regional and global security and peace. In a statement, Hamas affirmed...
Late on Friday Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that military facilities on Kharg Island were targeted. Read his Truth carefully: Trump is deep into fantasy land. Yes, I think he has lost touch with reality....
As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East. In a sermon on March 1, 2026, for example,...
In his monumental work “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, historian Edward Gibbon argued that empires rarely collapse suddenly. Their decline is usually gradual, shaped by long-term structural changes. Yet, history occasionally records moments when...
Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to the Middle East who President Donald Trump tasked with negotiating a deal with Iran, does not sound very much like a diplomat lately. “There’s almost no stopping them, they have an endless supply of...
Explosions rocked Iraq's capital Baghdad on Saturday after two strikes targeted the powerful Iran-backed group Kataeb Hezbollah , killing two members including a "key figure", security sources said. The strikes are the first in the heart of Baghdad to kill...
Just over two weeks before President Donald Trump is due to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, Chinese uncertainty over the US leader's goals and the impact of the Iran war hang over the highly...
- - - - On February 26, in a demonstration of the Vietnam Communist Party’s support of citizens’ rights, the government has set up early voting areas for 4,000 voters including those on ships, oil rigs, other offshore facilities specialized...
Heavy blasts shook Tehran late Friday, hours after the United States vowed intensified air strikes against Iran and reportedly sent Marines and more ships to the Middle East. After two weeks of war the Islamic republic has doubled down...
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed a dozen medical staff at a clinic, Lebanese health authorities said Saturday, after Iran-backed Hezbollah's leader said his group was ready for a long confrontation with Israel. Lebanon was drawn into...
GAZA, (PIC) The Secretary-General of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Naim Qassem, has affirmed that “the country is fighting a legitimate defensive battle against Zio-American aggression.” In a statement on Friday, Qassem said that “Lebanon has been facing continuous aggression for about 15 months,”...
GAZA, (PIC) Abu Obeida, spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, has applauded the missile counterattacks carried out by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard against Israel on Friday. “The ongoing strikes targeting the entity of the Zionist enemy with advanced and cluster missiles have brought...
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed four Palestinians, including two 17-year-olds, in two separate attacks, Palestinian medics said on Friday, with violence continuing in the West Bank and Gaza even as Israel expands its offensive across the region . Israel has...
The United States on Friday attacked military targets on Iran's main oil hub of Kharg Island , President Donald Trump said, threatening to strike oil infrastructure on the island if Iran continues to block shipping through the Strait...
This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim families are navigating. Raising Children Who Build for Eternity — Legacy, Sadaqah Jariyah, and the Long Game There is a conversation most...
The United States is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, including its new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei . The reward targets 10 officials associated with Iran's Islamic...
Japan’s House of Representatives on Friday passed the FY2026 budget, setting the stage for a fight in the upper house — where the government lacks a majority — as opposition parties seek to delay the budget’s passage (they can’t block...
French medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said on Friday it had treated over 20 people for injuries after a drone strike set fuel reserves alight in western Sudan , killing 11 people. The strike on the Adikong market near Sudan's...
Beijing could resume restrictions on rare-earth exports and halt purchases of United States soybeans if Washington insists on “making trouble” by proceeding with new tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act, according to Chinese commentators and policy observers. The...
Israeli evacuation warnings cover 14 percent of Lebanese territory, the Norwegian Refugee Council said Friday, as Israel expanded the zone from which residents were told to leave their homes . Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week...
The unclaimed airstrikes, likely conducted by the United States as part of US-Israeli operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, have targeted several Tehran-allied militias in Iraq and reportedly caused significant casualties. The US has not commented on these operations,...
In what has been described as a potential “major escalation” of the Trump administration’s war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly approved a request from US Central Command to move more warships and thousands of Marines to the...
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a front organization for Iranian-backed militias, claimed to have shot down a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over western Iraq but provided no evidence. US Central Command denied that the aircraft was shot down, and...
Oman unexpectedly refused to join Donald Trump's "Board of Peace,” demonstrating support for Tehran. This fundamentally changes the balance of power in the Middle East. Oman's Pro-Iranian Stance Seizes Initiative From UAE Oman has declared that it does not intend to...
Europe, with the exception of Spain, is once again on the wrong side of history Alan MacLeod Senior Staff Writer/Podcast Producer at @MintPressNews Cross-posted from Mint Press News Photo: Instagramm European nations are joining the United States and Israel in...
The Iran conflict has entered a new phase after US–Israeli strikes have destroyed key military infrastructure, killed thousands of regime personnel, and degraded Iran’s missile and drone launch rates. Israel has shifted toward hyperlocal targeting of repression units and regime...
The Iran war has delivered a verdict on nuclear latency – the strategy of possessing the capability to develop a nuclear weapons program while stopping short of crossing the weaponization threshold. There are significant implications for Northeast Asia, as South...
In Malampaya Sound on the Philippine island of Palawan, freshwater and saltwater converge to sustain a rich biodiversity , including the critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, as well as some 68,000 people who live along its peripheries. The...
The Iranian threat was allegedly invented in the White House, but the story has taken an unexpected turn: California has found itself on the brink of panic over "sleeping cells." The White House Punished the Media for Promoting Its Own Idea...
The US announced on Friday that all six of its soldiers aboard a KC-135 refuelling aircraft that crashed in western Iraq a day earlier have been killed. Read Article HERE As a work of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The head of the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Moayad Shaaban, revealed that Israeli settlers carried out 192 attacks across the West Bank over the past two weeks, amid the ongoing regional tensions and war. Shaaban said...
Key Takeaways - Israel’s military strategy has long relied on psychological dominance and deterrence built on overwhelming violence. - - Massacres during the Nakba helped establish fear as a strategic tool to weaken Palestinian resistance. - - Doctrines such as the Dahiya Doctrine...
The airstrike massacre of Russian civilians this week in the city of Bryansk seems to have been a callous, cold-blooded provocation. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Seven people were killed, and more...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation authorities on Friday issued military orders to seize dozens of dunums of Palestinian land in the Al-Baqi‘a Plain in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank. Moataz Bisharat, the official responsible for monitoring settlement activity in...
GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinians, including two teenagers, were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City on Friday evening. According to the PIC correspondent, Israeli aircraft struck a gathering of civilians on Mushtaha Street in Shuja’iyya,...
Pravda.Ru special correspondent Daria Aslamova interviewed associate professor at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Yuri Zverev explains why the era of beautiful ships has ended, what a "maritime Wagner” might be, and why sinking a modern warship is not as easy...
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...
Appeals to the government to work for a diplomatic solution are maintained even as it has made clear its commitment to the US-led war, making UK air bases available for American aircraft and deploying British aircraft to protect US bases,...
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...
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