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A Palestinian child with leukaemia has been denied access to a life-saving bone marrow transplant by Israel because he is registered as being from Gaza , despite living in the occupied West Bank , according to his family. Mohammed...

MENA

From the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the sands of the Sahel, foreign military bases dot the strategic landscape of the Middle East, North and East Africa. This infographic maps the global powers – from the United States and France to...

INFOGRAPHICS, Africa, Bahrain

British police said Monday they were investigating a suspected arson attack as an antisemitic hate crime, after volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation were set on fire. Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the burning of four...

World

By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A massive Iranian retaliatory strike on Dimona, Israel’s “nuclear city,” following latter’s attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant, caused large-scale destruction and...

Editor's Choice, India, Iran

By Kenji YOSHIDA Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su U.S. partners don’t trust Washington to pursue a coherent strategy. As the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue, Washington is once again turning...

Editor's Choice, Iran, Iraq

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday there had been no assessment that mainland Britain was being targeted by Iran. "We carry out assessments all the time in order to keep us safe, and there's no assessment that...

World

By CIVICUS Mar 23 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses Nepal’s upcoming election with youth activist Anusha Khanal of the Gen Z Movement Alliance, a youth-led civil society coalition mobilising for democratic accountability and governance reform in Nepal. Anusha Khanal Following Prime Minister KP...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society

The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a "major, major threat" because of the Iran war. "No country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues to go...

Energy

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a large-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank last night and at dawn Monday, kidnaping and detaining dozens of Palestinians, including a female journalist. The arrests were concentrated in al-Khalil governorate, where homes...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

The global price of oil continues to skyrocket as Iran’s missiles and drones hit vital infrastructure in Arab Gulf states. Billion-dollar American radar systems have also been targeted and destroyed across the Middle East by Iran, seemingly degrading US defenses....

Military, Aegis Combat System, AN/SPY-1

Opening of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) Shaped by ongoing dialogue, the CSW70 highlighted progress and diverse perspectives on gender and justice. By Fernanda Lagoeiro SAO PAULO, Brazil, Mar 23 2026 (IPS) The 70th session of the Commission...

Featured, Gender, Gender Identity

Cracked earth, from lack of water and baked from the heat of the sun, forms a pattern in the Nature Reserve of Popenguine, Senegal. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider By Umar Manzoor Shah GENEVA, Switzerland & SRINAGAR, India, Mar 23 2026 (IPS)...

Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Disaster Management

Iranian security forces have arrested roughly 500 people across the country on espionage charges, accusing them of collecting and transmitting sensitive information about military sites, airstrike locations, and emergency response operations to foreign intelligence agencies and opposition media...

MENA

TEHRAN, (PIC) The military escalation between Iran and the Israeli occupation is entering a more dangerous phase, shifting from limited exchanges of strikes to mutual targeting of vital infrastructure, amid direct US involvement and mounting pressure on regional energy routes. On Sunday,...

News, Iran, Zio-American aggression

Last summer, as the death toll in Gaza climbed above 50,000, punk group Bob Vylan provoked a media storm by chanting “death, death to the IDF” at Glastonbury festival. The scene was broadcast live on the BBC and quickly racked up...

Archive, Middle East, Top Stories

Iran knows it is militarily much weaker than the United States. The US accounts for 37% of military spending worldwide, while Iran accounts for less than 1%. On paper, we’d expect the US to easily win a military confrontation with...

Middle East, Afghanistan War, Block 2

Tehran warned Monday it will strike electrical plants across the Middle East if US President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to bomb power stations in Iran. Following the threat, Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency published...

MENA

Last week, Iran experienced an unprecedented wave of strikes that reached deep into its cities: targeting military commanders, intelligence chiefs, and residential neighbourhoods alike, in what analysts are calling a qualitative shift like the conflict with the United States...

MENA

By Lubna Masarwa It’s the last Friday of Ramadan, and the Old City of Jerusalem is a ghost town. Al-Wad, the main street that leads to Al-Aqsa Mosque, is empty, and the shops selling sweets, herbs and clothes are all closed. Even...

Jerusalem, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli closures

WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settler groups carried out violent attacks on Palestinian citizens and their property in different areas of the occupied West Bank last night and at dawn Monday, injuring nine citizens, burning homes and cars, and blocking roads. In...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

The United States and China are forging divergent paths in artificial intelligence—paths that will shape economies, societies and the nature of power itself for generations to come. One is shaped by market forces, the other by a logic of coordination....

Technology, AI, AI Data

Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval strategist and historian, once said: “Whoever rules the waves rules the world.” Mahan believed that national greatness was inextricably linked to the sea. The American naval strategist argued that control of sea lanes creates...

Middle East, Alfred Thayer Mahan, American Globalization

On March 19, Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the latest annual report from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) as “unobjective, inaccurate and based on information with ill intent.” The response followed a well-established pattern – USCIRF...

Opinion, Religious Freedom, US Religious Liberty Commission

The State Department is conducting a new wave of outreach to three military-ruled Sahelian countries — Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. This outreach appears aimed at moving past concerns about democracy and restoring a kind of status quo ante in...

Africa, State-department, Mali

As Operation Epic Fury enters its fourth week, American and Israeli forces can boast of many tactical victories. They have destroyed 75% of Iran’s missile and drone launch capacity, sunk over thirty naval vessels, hit critical Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

China, New-cold-war, Xi-jinping

As the war in Iran absorbs the world’s attention, with its images of dead school girls and flattened buildings, it may be easy to overlook Gaza. It has been a full five months since a ceasefire went into...

Book-review, Israel, Gaza

An Iran -backed armed group announced on Monday that it would continue its five-day pause on attacking the US embassy in Baghdad . Since the start of the war in the Middle East, pro-Iran armed groups have claimed responsibility...

MENA

A journalist from a Turkish newspaper critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government was placed in pre-trial detention Sunday for "spreading false information", his publication said. Ismail Ari, a journalist for left-wing newspaper Birgun , was...

MENA

March 11, 2026: the day the UN died. Much devastation will be left in the wake of the war on Iran. One of the most serious losses will be the loss of credibility suffered by the United Nations. On March...

Uncategorized

It sure looks like the Donald is on the receiving end of a double-whammy. His victory declaration in Iran looks to rank right up there with George Dubya Bush’s “mission accomplished” pratfall on the deck of a US aircraft carrier...

Uncategorized

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration’s illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran. Well, maybe. “That number could move,” he says, to get “properly funded for what’s been done, for what we may have...

Uncategorized

The Israeli military announced Sunday it was expanding its ground campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon , warning of a lengthy operation, after Beirut condemned what it called Israel's flagrant violations of Lebanese sovereignty. Israeli forces were ordered earlier...

MENA

Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Amin Nasser has cancelled his planned appearance at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston to remain in Saudi Arabia because of the Iran conflict, an industry source told Reuters . Nasser, who has...

Energy

The Israeli military announced on March 22 that it killed Walid Dib, a Hamas money man, in Lebanon. In addition to Dib, two other Hamas members operating in Lebanon have also been eliminated in Israeli strikes in recent days. The...

Long War Journal, News, Hamas

US President Donald Trump shared a video on his Truth Social network Sunday of a TV comedy skit showing a terrified British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hoping to dodge a phone call with the American leader. The...

World

Gli Stati Uniti stanno sperperando miliardi di dollari per bombardare l’Iran, mentre il mondo assiste distrattamente al crollo dei prezzi del petrolio. Segue nostro Telegram . Bruciare miliardi di dollari Gli Stati Uniti bruciano miliardi di dollari per bombardare l’Iran...

Italiano, Iran, Middle East

Moti Margalit is the CEO and co-founder of SonicEdge, a deep-tech pioneer reinventing sound through ultrasonic modulation – unlocking smaller, vibration-free speakers with studio-quality audio. With a background in lasers and electro-optics, Moti transitioned from technologist to inventor. His career spans...

CEO Interviews, ces 2026, mems
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