In the theater of West Asian geopolitics, the line between a “stabilizing force” and a “silent spectator” is often drawn by the agility of a state’s diplomacy. As the US-Iran war enters its second month, an alarming linguistic shift emerged...
A tribunal verdict on the term is revealing about the complexities of having multiple cultural identities – and western attitudes to ageing It should be uncontroversial to state that what we want to be called – or do not want to...
Israel's parliament passed a sweeping death penalty law targeting Palestinians on Monday, triggering widespread international condemnation - as lawmakers celebrated with champagne inside the Knesset . The bill, approved by 62 of the Knesset's 120 members with...
Three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon after a bloody weekend in which Lebanese journalists and medics were killed in Israeli strikes. Two peacekeepers were killed on Monday after an explosion...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out widespread raids across the West Bank early Tuesday morning, storming dozens of homes and arresting a large number of Palestinians, including former prisoners. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that IOF troops searched...
On March 25-26, 2026, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko paid an official visit to the DPRK at the invitation of Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Chronicle of the visit The visit...
A suspected US strike hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early on Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, as Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Gulf. US President Donald Trump, who has...
“Nablus is at the centre of a huge prison, surrounded by fourteen Israeli settlements and many checkpoints which are closed by the army most of the time. How much longer do we have to suffer? They’ve destroyed Gaza...
The Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Russia’s Yaroslavl Region, one of the country’s five largest and capable of refining 15 million tons of oil per year, was reportedly hit by Ukrainian drones early on March 28. This follows last week’s bombing of the Ust-Luga...
For the past few weeks, residents living in and around Dal Lake in Indian Kashmir have witnessed “a different phenomenon” as a green sludge has accumulated on the once pristine water. Photos circulating widely on social media triggered a public...
Egypt plans to import around a million barrels of oil from neighbouring Libya to make up for the loss of crude imports mainly from Kuwait because of Iran's restrictions of the Strait of Hormuz. Egyptian authorities are expected...
Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with the United States to renew restrictions on its nuclear program. This is not the first time the US has...
GAZA, (PIC) Six Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and others injured over the past 24 hours after Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians near Al-Shafi’i Mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, alongside sporadic gunfire across...
Indonesia is calling it “impact investing.” In fact, it is not. The country’s new sovereign fund, Daya Anagata Nusantara, better known as Danantara, has been presented as a vehicle to align financial returns with national development goals. In practice, it...
Feminists and rights defenders say online threats have rapidly escalated, forcing some to leave the country for their safety Yordanos Bezabih, an Ethiopian women’s rights activist, had faced online threats for years: of acid attacks, gang-rape and death. She tried her...
THAAD Missile Battery Looks like Pete Hegseth tried to make a financial killing off of the war of aggression the US launched against Iran on 28 February 2026. According to the Financial Times : Pete Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley...
Missile inventories have become a focal point in the ongoing US-Israel military confrontation with Iran. The Alma Research and Education Center estimates Iran’s ballistic missile count has fallen from 2,500 at the beginning of the conflict to around 1,000, and...
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints, carrying around a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and significant volumes of liquefied natural gas and fertilizers. By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK, Mar 31 2026 (IPS) Trump’s...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 31 2026 (IPS) While media coverage of Iran’s restrictions on passage through the Hormuz Straits focuses on fuel prices, partial closure is also disrupting crucial fertiliser...
American taxpayers could be forgiven if recent events have left them wondering why the largest and most expensive Navy in the world is sitting well outside the Strait of Hormuz, watching powerlessly as the Iranians decide which ships they will...
Just when the U.S. military could use reliable machinery for its hot war on Iran, defense contractors plan to send it radarless F-35s that are unfit for combat. Breaking Defense reported late last week that the military will start accepting F-35s...
The global energy crunch caused by the American-Israeli war on Iran is severely impacting Africa’s ability to access affordable fuel, leading governments to scramble for new sources of energy. Years of underinvestment by African governments in refining equipment and other...
Russia has begun a spring offensive in Ukraine, launching a major assault on the “fortress belt” of heavily defended cities in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. At the same time, a wave of nearly 1,000 drones and missiles targeted civilian, energy,...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - Wikimedia Commons Countries across Asia are scrambling as prices skyrocket at the pump due to the sustained disruption in energy supplies from the Persian Gulf, with energy security increasingly defined not by crude...
President Trump and his minions assured America that he was a man of peace who would abandon the “failed policy of regime change”. Yet, since taking office in 2025, he has bombed seven countries and threatened several more. As a...
The war on Iran was neither inevitable nor necessary. As recently as March 3, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said the IAEA “has found no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb.” On...
As we begin a new week, the media is filled with reports that President Trump is ready to approve a US ground operation against Iran, either to seize Iran’s uranium or to attack an island off the country’s coast. Thousands...
The United States Department of Justice’s recent moves to prosecute executives of a server supplier and individual agents and to accuse them of smuggling Nvidia’s high-end chips to China via Thailand may signal a trend toward tighter export control enforcement, according...
NAZARETH, (PIC) On the fiftieth anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians find themselves in what is described as one of the bloodiest and most complex phases in the history of their cause, with the ongoing assault and blockade on Gaza and the...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip has recently been experiencing a worsening crisis in the availability of vegetables and fruits, accompanied by a sharp increase in their prices, further increasing the suffering of residents already living under difficult economic and humanitarian conditions. Specialists...
The attempt to revitalise the smear tactics which successfully brought down Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party won’t work this time. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium...
Even some mainstream economists are coming to accept that the neoclassical tradition is fundamentally broken. Walden Bello , a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus , is the author or co-author of 26 books, the latest of which are...
Keir Starmer is determined to turn a blind eye to Trump’s demands to join the war. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy...
A drone attack targeted the residence of Kurdistan Region of Iraq President Nechirvan Barzani amid escalating strikes in Iraq on March 28, followed by a drone interception near the home of Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),...
In a positive twist, the Trump administration said it does not plan to block a Russian oil tanker from delivering 730,000 barrels of crude to Cuba, which has been suffering from acute fuel shortages since the U.S. imposed a de...
In the late 19th century the British South Africa Company, founded by Cecil Rhodes, then prime minister of the Cape Colony, annexed territories south of the Zambezi in order to exploit their mineral resources. Before long, however, the white colonists...
Hizbullah responded to the killing of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in late February by firing rockets into northern and central Israel. The IDF answered with large-scale reprisals against Lebanon. An intensive bombing campaign, also targeting Beirut, has so far...
Even though the Houthis have been badly weakened by US and Israeli attacks, they remain an ally that Tehran could call upon militarily in the event of serious setbacks or a stalemate. This would reverse the policy of Iran's late...
Will Vladimir Putin be the real winner of Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran? The Russian federal budget for 2026 was based on an anticipated average of $59 per barrel of Urals crude and is now benefitting from soaring oil...
On Saturday 7 March 50,000 people marched in London in protest at the war Israel and the United States are waging in Iran. It was a notable turnout by the standards of other Western capitals, but pitiful compared to past...
The Trump administration has kept on the table the threat of escalating the confrontation with Iran as a necessary show of force. Yet underlying this rhetoric is a rising body of evidence—military, analytical, and historical—that indicates that a...
By Naïma Abdellaoui GENEVA, Mar 30 2026 (IPS) The United Nations was not founded to be comfortable; it was founded to be necessary. Created in the aftermath of catastrophe, its purpose was clear: to maintain international peace and security, to uphold...
Israel's arms industry has ramped up production of interceptor missiles and other munitions in response to the country's continued wars on Iran and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Haaretz reported. Production is expected to increase to four times the usual...
One month into the US-Israeli war, Iran is increasingly pursuing a strategy of economic attrition, targeting energy infrastructure and maritime routes with mass-produced, low-cost drones . This calculated operational shift is designed to impose continuously rising financial costs on its...
EUA seguem avançando sua estratégia anti-russa no Cáucaso. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Em março de 2026, quando os Estados Unidos parecem já ter explorado ao máximo o dossiê ucraniano e...
Charlie Peppiatt has served as Chief Executive Officer of Gooch & Housego since September 2022. He joined the company from TT Electronics, where he was Executive Vice President following TT’s acquisition of Stadium Group plc. Prior to that, Charlie served...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has said it destroyed a US E-3 AWACS surveillance aircraft in Friday’s strikes on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia , which injured 12 US military personnel. The base, situated about 60 miles...
An attack on a gold mine in South Sudan , one of the world's poorest and most volatile countries, killed at least 73 people and wounded 25, the vice president said. The assault at the weekend targeted the mining area...
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