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Before he became one of the great diplomats of the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger wrote his dissertation about the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich. Kissinger closely studied how European diplomats like Metternich constructed a new regional order after the defeat...

Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su This was always about Civilization. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” History will register it with a gaze as pitiless as the...

On Tuesday, much to the relief of the world, US President Donald Trump pulled one of his biggest TACOs yet - and he wasn't serving up Mexican food. Known for dishing out threats on the global stage, ranging...

Just when a fragile glimmer of hope emerged in the Middle East, Israel has moved to extinguish it. By launching its largest wave of strikes in years against Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon — all Hezbollah’s strongholds —...

Five weeks into the US–Israeli campaign against Iran and its allies, the region is reeling from widespread destruction. From heavy industrial losses in Iran to shattered infrastructure across the Gulf and Lebanon’s mass displacement, the toll has...

Over the past six weeks, Iran and Iraqi militias have subjected Iraq’s Kurdistan Region to a massive campaign of airstrikes . Regular drone and missile strikes have resulted in multiple deaths and caused significant economic and social disruption...

Uncertainty surrounds how the strategic Strait of Hormuz will operate following a two-week ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran. A major escalation of the Middle East war was narrowly averted on Tuesday evening after Iran...

A Rohingya rights campaigner spearheading a genocide complaint filed in Indonesia against Myanmar's next president urged the Muslim world on Wednesday to oppose the junta accused of the abuses. Yasmin Ullah is one of 11 plaintiffs who lodged the...

Sixty-five-year-old farmer Rabie Abdel Azim, from the village of Gardu in Fayoum Governorate, was caught off guard this week when the price of a 50-kilogramme bag of fertiliser jumped 50% overnight. The price went up to EGP 1,200 ($22) from EGP...

Oil companies ExxonMobil, Empire Petroleum and their subsidiaries engaged in accounting fraud that could cost the state nearly $200 million, a lawsuit filed in New Mexico District Court alleges. If successful, plaintiffs say the case could change how old oil...

Donald Trump loathes mail-in voting — except, of course, when he uses this method to cast his own ballot, as he did in a recent Florida special election . Frustrated by congressional inaction, Trump issued an executive...

- - - - Photo by Artists Eyes on Unsplash I get that the left doesn’t like President Donald Trump. I didn’t like Biden or Obama, so it’s fair. However, I try to be fair to my opponents....

Yesterday began with President Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended — just 10 hours later — with the announcement of a 14-day ceasefire, on Iran’s terms . Even by the volatile standards of Trump’s presidency, the whiplash...

Five teenagers went on trial in Sweden on Wednesday for the alleged attempted murder of a dissident Iranian researcher. The victim, Arvin Khoshnood, a supporter of the son of the last Shah of Iran , maintains that the...

Israeli opposition leaders have reacted to the ceasefire between Iran and the US with fury, slamming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to achieve regime change in Tehran. Iran and the US agreed to...

Israel launched a sweeping wave of at least 100 airstrikes across Beirut and the rest of Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon, shattering hopes that the ceasefire in the region would allow displaced families in Lebanon to return home quickly. Dozens were...

Arab states have made progress in establishing a MENA transport corridor, spurred on by the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz . Syria, Jordan and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday that sets out a...

BEIRUT, (PIC) Hundreds of people were feared dead and injured Wednesday when the Israeli occupation army struck more than 100 sites “within 10 minutes” across Lebanon, including crowded commercial and residential areas in Beirut. The massive attacks, which disregarded the US-Iran ceasefire,...

More than two years after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023, Gaza remains caught between destruction and diplomacy. Ceasefire agreements reached in late 2025 reduced the intensity of the conflicts but failed to...

In Sbeïtla, in Tunisia’s center-west, a mother lives by the silence of a phone that no longer rings. Her son, Aymen, had left for Russia to study business administration. He had a side job to support himself. Then came the...

A tomada do poder do Estado, isto é, a revolução social, é a realização efetiva da libertação das nações oprimidas do jugo imperialista. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su O genocídio cometido...

US President Donald Trump's two-week ceasefire with Iran is unlikely to provide immediate relief to the global aviation industry as it reels from its worst crisis in years, executives said on Wednesday, even as airline shares rallied after...

By Larry C.JOHNSON Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Iran’s air defense system succeeded on Friday, April 3, in downing a US F-15E over Iran. There is some dispute and confusion...

Yesterday, Tuesday, 7 April, marked the second anniversary of the death of prisoner Walid Daqqa (Abu Milad), who died in Israeli prisons after 38 years of detention and intellectual and political struggle. This anniversary comes as Israeli...

By Kit KLARENBERG Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president...

The announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the US, Israel , and Iran early on Wednesday saw all parties claim victory; however, on social media, there appeared to be another winner. Boosted by their country's role in brokering...

Arab states have broadly welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and the US, framing it as a first step towards de-escalation while urging a permanent end to the war. The two-week truce, announced early on Wednesday, has drawn cautious support...

Oil and gas prices plunged, stock markets soared and the dollar retreated Wednesday after the United States and Iran agreed to a temporary ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. "It is a massive market reversal,"...

Israeli forces carried out mass attacks without warning across Lebanon on Wednesday, saying they launched 100 strikes in just 10 minutes in what marked the most intense wave of bombardment since the war resumed on 2 March. By the evening, the...

Every morning, Mai Murshid wakes up to the same thought: "How am I going to get bread for my children?" The 37-year-old mother of four tells The New Arab, "It's the first thing on my mind. Every day I...

Around one in eight British residents in the United Arab Emirates have left the country since the start of Iran's regional attacks in late February, according to data cited by the Financial Times. Before the US-Israel...