An investigation into the death of a Palestinian teenager in an Israeli prison has been closed by an Israeli judge, who said even though it's clear the boy was starved, the cause of death is undeterminable, a newly-unsealed...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex‑Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society have accused the Israeli occupation police of executing 21‑year‑old Qasim Shuqairat following a raid on his home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel al-Mukaber on...
A marine drone struck a Turkish crude oil tanker that had departed Russia, causing an explosion in the Black Sea near Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Thursday, Turkey's transportation minister said. The incident, one of several in recent months involving...
Capire i meccanismi attraverso i quali la lobby israeliana negli Stati Uniti ha storicamente influenzato la politica estera nordamericana appare fondamentale per interpretare la contemporaneità geopolitica del Vicino Oriente. Qui si cercherà in primo luogo di tracciare un breve profilo...
The Israeli military said air defences responded to missile attacks from Iran on Thursday that, according to medics, left six people lightly wounded and caused some damage. A spokesperson for Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical service said paramedics...
Intelligence agencies are often blamed when the use of military force has an unexpected or negative outcome. Pundits often argue leaders end up in difficult situations because they are not fully informed, or intelligence agencies got it wrong. Of course,...
Foreign ministers from the G7 meet outside Paris starting Thursday, with European nations and allies seeking to narrow differences with the US over the Middle East war while keeping other crises like Ukraine and Gaza high on the...
TEHRAN, (PIC) In an indication of the escalation of the battle of political conditions parallel to the battlefield, Tehran is seeking to expand the framework of any potential settlement, by linking a ceasefire to regional files that go beyond the limits...
The group "Saraya Awliya al-Dam" has emerged as one of the most prominent Iraqi factions involved in the US-Israeli war on Iran . It has claimed dozens of strikes and attacks on targets it says are "American" across various areas...
Egypt is clamping down on media incitement aimed at relations with fellow Arab countries, especially the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, threatening to take punitive action against violators. The expanding campaign is energised by an escalating tug of war...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A Palestinian worker was killed and seven others were injured on Thursday after their vehicles overturned and came under gunfire during a chase by Israeli forces and settlers at the entrance of Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil. Dr. Iyad Abu...
The status of US-Iran talks remained oblique on Thursday, as Tehran says it is not engaging in negotiations with Washington to end the war, while President Donald Trump insists that dialogue between the two sides is active . The...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Palestinian citizens fended off an attack by extremist Jewish settlers targeting their homes and property on the outskirts of Mikhmas town, north of Occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday evening. Local sources reported that a group of settlers stormed the al‑Makibra...
Over 8,554 grave violations against children have occurred in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the ongoing conflict. Credit: UN News By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 2026 (IPS) The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which began October 2023, has claimed...
Kurdish fashion designer Lara Dizeyee 's creative roots aren't drawn from the usual stories of televised runway shows or teenage afternoons flipping through glossy fashion magazines. Her story, instead, begins with exile during the Iran–Iraq War , when her...
By A. K. Abdul Momen NEW JERSEY, USA, Mar 26 2026 (IPS) Who benefits from a war of choice against Iran? The immediate political winners may include President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But if the war continues for...
The language of power often reveals more than it intends. In a rare moment of candor on March 7, US President Donald Trump described the confrontation with Iran as “a big chess game at a very high level … I’m...
Gold has long enjoyed a reputation as a financial “safe haven” during stormy times. But over the past few months of geopolitical chaos and market panic, the precious metal has moved more like a roller coaster than a steady ship...
The furnaces at Vaikunth Dham, the largest crematorium in India’s Maharashtra state, have gone quiet. The operators only had enough liquified petroleum(natural) gas (LNG) for a few more cremations. From here on out, the dead would be cremated by electricity...
While South Korea is preoccupied with the safety of its citizens, the impact of the conflict on fuel supplies, and changes in the Seoul-Washington alliance, North Korea has expressed uncompromising political and diplomatic support for Tehran. The DPRK’s Stance: “A...
With the end of the post-World War II global order, every great power is now effectively a rogue state. Russia is trying (and failing) to reestablish its old empire. China is menacing its neighbors and funding aggressive proxies around the globe....
A March 12 fire that injured 200 sailors is just the latest embarrassing incident in the history of the USS Gerald R. Ford. The vaunted aircraft carrier has become a case study demonstrating how such a program will fail when...
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has sparked a new round of debates on the implications for China of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. Citing China’s reliance on imports of oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) that pass through the largely...
Turkey has been pushing hard for an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran since the campaign began late last month. In the weeks leading up to February 28, Turkey joined Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in lobbying the Trump...
Ukrainian president says peace deal proposed by US included ceding land to Russia. What we know on day 1,492 The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of...
China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea research and mapping efforts across key global waters, raising concerns that these activities may support future undersea conflict. This month, Reuters and CNN reported that China is expanding a vast deep-sea research and mapping...
Cartoon by Eric Izabelle I think the picture sums it up… Iran is not going to negotiate with the Trump administration on Trump’s terms. Iran has set its terms and will not deviate from those. Here is a synthesis of...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan… Photo from Times of Israel The Arab Gulf’s glittering skylines were built on a simple promise: stability in exchange for prosperity. That bargain is now under strain....
Let’s begin by recalling why the US Navy shot-down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 and brought 241 innocent men, women and children to their doom. The answer, of course, is that the Navy was conducting patrol operations in the...
In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion. However, far from dismantling the sanctions...
Is Israel’s trajectory toward isolation and collapse self-inflicted, and has Zionism reached the point of no return? Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces two...
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. On March 17th and 18th, the United...
After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that “help is on the way.” On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched what immediately became a devastating war on Iran. American and Israeli warplanes began...
Democrats on the US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday demanded that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice “stop the cover-up” of former special counsel Jack Smith’s full investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents following his first term, after new material sent...
Buon senso vorrebbe che ucraini ed europei puntassero a chiudere il conflitto al più presto, prima che la sconfitta diventi disfatta, dal momento che non esiste nessuna possibilità che gli ucraini riconquistino i territori perduti o impediscano ai russi di...
RAMALLAH/PNN/ Palestinian prisoners’ rights organizations issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday calling for international intervention to halt an Israeli draft law that would allow the death penalty for Palestinian detainees. The groups said a Knesset committee approved the proposed “execution of...
Brussels/PNN/ In a joint statement, missions representing countries including Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Ireland, Finland, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland denounced Israel's “settler terrorism” and expressed shock over recent killings...
The US Justice Department last October announced the largest asset seizure in American history: a cache of bitcoin then valued at $15 billion tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group that prosecutors alleged oversaw an empire of human trafficking and industrial-scale...
C lick here to read the article on Asia Times. The Cayman Islands sits at the heart of a network of British financial jurisdictions. Together, they manage trillions in assets, influencing global capital flows and investment networks. China, which was...
A bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted using drugs and sexual blackmail to create a “network of informants” which could infiltrate and destroy resistance groups. A...
An Iranian ballistic missile exploded in Lebanese airspace shortly after Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi declared Tehran’s ambassador-designate in the country “persona non grata.” Official silence, coupled with Lebanese reporting that the missile was targeting an American asset in Lebanon,...
A useful round-up of the latest foreign policy developments, especially in the Middle East. Read the article HERE . President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan signs the guest book in the Roosevelt Room, Friday, August 8, 2025, before a bilateral meeting...
What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalised, and defended. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist and a researcher with CODEPINK. They are co-authors...
‘Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.’ In...
The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency finds parallels in the lies over Iraq about nuclear weapons and the lies over Iran today. Interview by David Hearst, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. Cross-posted from Middle East...
The far-right had a successful local election, as did France Insoumise, but neither have shown that they can win the presidential election in 2027. Frédéric Sawicki is professor of political science at Paris 1 University of Panthéon-Sorbonne. Cross-posted from The...
Maybe you’re reading this article while listening to a podcast. Or you’re participating in a dull Zoom meeting. Or you’re talking on the phone with a relative. Maybe you’ve just read the first three lines of this article three times without...
Credit: Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Less than six months after Nepal’s Generation Z rose up in protest , the country has a new prime minister. A 35-year-old former rapper who soundtracked the...
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