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As the war in the Middle East spreads and intensifies, the one in Ukraine continues. While the two are geographically some 2,500km (1,600 miles) apart, the consequences of US president Donald Trump’s latest military adventure for the Russian war against...

Ukraine War, Ali Khamenei, Assassination

The US and Israel have launched a coordinated air campaign in recent days to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities and navy, curb its ability to develop nuclear weapons and eliminate its leadership. The strikes have been accompanied by calls from Donald...

Middle East, Air power, Block 2

US Special Operations forces captured Nicolás Maduro in a pre-dawn raid in Caracas on January 3rd. The mission reportedly utilized the military’s Maven Smart System, which is built by Palantir and has Anthropic’s Claude model embedded for data analysis and targeting. Claude is a powerful...

Opinion, AI Ethics, Anthropic

US President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for carrying out his sweeping immigration crackdown . According to multiple media reports, Trump was upset with Noem's...

World

Despite a DoD ban on Anthropic over its demands that its tech not be used for fully autonomous military targeting, its AI model, Claude, is enjoying prime time use in the U.S. war on Iran. Indeed, the U.S. military leveraged its...

Ai-military-targeting, Ai-war, Anthropic

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian man was wounded Thursday after Israeli forces opened fire at the Shufa military checkpoint near the city of Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank. In a brief statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medical...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the tents of a Palestinian resident in Khirbet Yarza, east of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley, on Thursday evening, while Jewish settlers blocked an agricultural road leading to the area by...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

The German government backs the US and Israel in their war of aggression against Iran – contributing to a further collapse of international law. The murder of national leaders is becoming common practice in warfare. Read Article HERE This work...

Geopolitics, National Politics, German Foreign Policy

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) informed the administration of the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil on Thursday that the site will be reopened to worshippers starting at dawn prayers on Friday, following a six-day closure imposed under what the Israeli...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

As the conflict in the Middle East engulfs more countries, recent media reports alleging that the CIA is planning to arm Kurdish ground troops to spark an uprising in Iran have been met with vehement denials by Iraqi Kurdish officials....

Shanaz-ibrahim-ahmed, Iraq, Iran

“That was meters away from us, that’s the Fairmont Hotel,” said white British fitness influencer Will Bailey in an Instagram video to his 122K followers, standing at the poolside in a crisp white shirt, club music pumping in...

Voices

The Shoah was possible because no one could imagine Auschwitz. Reality overwhelms our imagination. Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris Cross-posted from Emmanuel Todd’s Substack...

EU politics, Geopolitics, National Politics

Weeks after suffering a major setback in Syria, the Kurds are again at the centre of another major crisis in the Middle East. Just days after the Trump administration began its war on Iran , reports emerged that...

Analysis

The semiconductor industry is entering a new era in system design. As traditional monolithic scaling approaches its economic and physical limits, multi-die architectures are emerging as a primary pathway for delivering continued improvements in performance, power efficiency, and integration density....

3D IC, Chiplet, EDA

Israel and the US launched missile strikes on Iran on 28 February following weeks of nuclear negotiations, in a move that triggered shockwaves across the region. The operation resulted in the killing of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...

MENA

LENA PETROVA: Welcome, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. I’m Lena Petrova with a new episode of World Affairs in Context. Today, I’m honored to be joined by Professor Michael Hudson, a renowned economist, distinguished research professor of...

Economics, Finance, Financial Institutions

Hezbollah and Iran's rocket and drone attacks on Israel on Wednesday were coordinated, Israeli officials believe, marking the first sign of direct collaboration in attacks since the outbreak of the latest conflict. Israeli security officials were cited by Israel's Kan...

MENA

In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understand what’s gone on. This...

War & Peace, boat strikes, Venezuela

When Syrian forces moved into Kurdish-held territories in northeastern Syria in January, Turkish officials let out a sigh of relief. The “Kurdish question” seemed to be nearing resolution. For Turkey, armed Kurdish movements seeking cultural and political autonomy across Turkey,...

Egypt-Turkey relations, gulf, Gulf Cooperation Council

Yemen's Houthis are believed to be holding the Bab al-Mandab strait as their ultimate leverage amid Iran's war with Israel and the US . If they decide to close it, this choke off Gulf oil exports particularly if the...

MENA

This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 4 March 2026. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the provisional release of journalist Sandra Muhoza and calls on Burundian authorities not to oppose her appeal of her conviction. On February 27,...

When Angelo Villagomez began working in ocean conservation in the late 2000s, it was not an inclusive field for him. “My Indigenous identity was not necessarily welcomed,” says the Micronesian conservationist and marine policy expert. “I would have short hair,...

Ocean, Activism, Deep-sea mining

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 27 February 2026. Guinea’s media regulator, the High Authority for Communication (HAC), has announced that it will publish a list of journalists and media outlets authorised to operate ahead of the...

This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 4 March 2026. Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the summons issued by the Delta State Police Command to Comrade Victor Ojie, leader of the Young Nigerian Rights Organization (YNRO), to...

Iran has stepped up its attacks on the region's oil infrastructure as the deputy commander of its war room said it was "exercising our naval authority" over the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state TV said on Thursday...

MENA

Since Donald Trump launched his regime change war against Iran over the weekend — reportedly at the urging of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with no real plan for what comes...

Activism, Column, Military

Hezbollah has deployed elite fighters to confront Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, sending them back into the border region from which they withdrew after a war in 2024, three Lebanese sources familiar with the deployments said, as the Iran-backed...

MENA

On March 3, the U.S. Southern Command announced on X that American forces had participated in actions alongside Ecuadorian security forces: “Ecuadorian and U.S. military forces launched operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations in Ecuador. The operations are a...

Americas, Courts & Law, Military

- - - - Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash For a while, the phrase “it’s for the children” was a meme that was initially used to justify almost anything Democrats wanted, then turned into a joke...

After a drone hit a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus on Sunday night, the debate in Britain has centred on why the airfield was not better protected. But in Cyprus, anger is focused on why Britain still has military...

Archive, Europe, Intelligence

While most European leaders have responded to the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran with condemnations of the Iranian regime and tepid calls for “de-escalation” designed not to offend Washington, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has unequivocally condemned...

Activism, Europe, Middle East

The first wave of US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran on 28 February killed at least 175 people, including children, after a school was struck. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , was also reported killed during...

Society

California 's Democrat governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday compared Israel to an "apartheid state", taking a shot at the country's government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Newsom made the remarks at a promotional event for his new memoir...

MENA
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