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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

US President Donald Trump's border czar said on Sunday that having immigration agents bolster short-staffed Transportation Security Administration teams will speed up airport lines, but the union for TSA workers said that doesn't solve what they...

MENA

From exile and rebellion to trade, transformation, and mercy, explore surprising facts about Makkah you may never have heard. A Complex History Most of us think we know Makkah. It is the holiest city in Islam, the direction of our prayers,...

#Islam, featured, Featured Home

The Epstein Class is destroying our society and everything we assumed it stood for Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Wikipedia When I become despondent about the state of the world, which is quite often these...

Geopolitics, Article, Aurelien

Ukrainian and US delegations concluded a second day of talks in Florida on finding ways to end the four-year war with Russia , President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. Russian representatives were not present at the talks, which opened...

World

In the West, the crimes of the Zionists and Israel are condoned by labeling any critic as an anti-Semite. This approach obscures the following fact: The Zionists promote anti-Semitism to legitimize their crimes. Introduction The Collective West, which unconditionally supports the...

Guest Contributor

The proposed US bill represents a monumental financial breakthrough for Somaliland, catapulting its financial visibility to the outside world from a state of mere informal survival to a structured access For years, Somaliland’s case has been argued in the language of...

Somaliland, Bashir Goth, Congressman John Rose (R-Tennessee)

An Israeli airstrike on a police vehicle on Sunday killed three people in the middle of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, health officials said, hours after another person was killed in a strike on northern...

MENA

Hundreds of Syrians protested in central Damascus on Sunday against new restrictions on alcohol sales, reflecting wider fears that the Islamist authorities may tighten curbs on personal freedoms. The Syrian capital last week banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in restaurants...

MENA

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 casualties, Demona, March 22, 2026 The salience of the two readouts of the phone call on Saturday by...

Articles, Gulf war, India-Iran

The United States may need to "escalate" its attacks against Iran to be able to wind down the war, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, after President Donald Trump gave seemingly contradictory trajectories for the US military campaign. Trump on Saturday...

MENA

Iran's critical water and energy infrastructure have suffered extensive damage due to US and Israeli strikes on tens of thousands of civilian sites, officials said on Sunday. Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran on February 28, killing the...

MENA

The Palestinian Water Authority and Environmental Quality Authority in Gaza warned on Sunday of an unprecedented water and environmental catastrophe in the enclave, citing widespread destruction caused by Israel’s war between October 2023 and October 2025 . In...

MENA

Rising oil and gas prices driven by the US-Israeli war on Iran over the past three weeks have created a global fuel crisis , prompting governments to introduce urgent measures to limit the impact on economies and...

MENA

Iraqi sources have reported that the pro-Iran militia Kataib Hezbollah is the main suspect in the attack on the National Intelligence Service headquarters in Baghdad , as calls for decisive action increase following the deadly incident. Iraqi authorities...

MENA

Pro-Palestine campaigners across the United Kingdom are preparing to stage coordinated protests outside arms manufacturing sites, in an effort to intensify public pressure on the government to halt its support for Israel through the production and sale...

World

GAZA, (PIC) Four Palestinians were martyred and several others were injured on Sunday afternoon, the third day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a police vehicle in an-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The Palestinian Information Center...

News, Ceasefire violations, Gaza Strip

Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, highlighted last year’s brazen assault on Mogadishu’s Godka Jilacow prison, operated by Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency. In the video, one of the attackers was identified as the son of Ali Mohamed...

Long War Journal, News, Al Qaeda

Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, in Bossier Parish not far from Shreveport, was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9. The attack disrupted B-52H aircraft launches in support of Operation Epic Fury against Iran. It is the...

Military, Block 1, China-US

Na direção d e Zaporozhye, deserções estão se tornando uma questão cada vez mais grave para o regime de Kiev. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A crise institucional no regime de...

Português, Corruption, Crisis

Qatar on Sunday confirmed four of its military personnel and three Turkish nationals , including one serviceman, were killed on board a helicopter that crashed in Qatar's territorial waters. The Gulf state's interior ministry said in a statement rescue operations...

MENA

The Taliban government said one person was killed by a shell from Pakistan in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, despite a truce between the two countries for the end of Ramadan. "Today, Sunday, a mortar shell fired by the Pakistani military regime...

World
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