Amid rising regional tensions, the confrontation between the United States and Iran appears more complex than a direct military clash. The stakes are not measured solely by airstrikes or the scale of destruction but by each side’s strategic objectives and...
China may be preparing to take Taiwan, but not through a near-term invasion, as new US intelligence suggests it is prioritizing coercion, pressure and political absorption over outright war. The March report, entitled 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of US Intelligence...
Women in Mandera County, Kenya, gather at a lone water source, filling every jerrycan as drought turns basic hydration into a daily struggle. Credit: Charles Kariuki/IPS By Umar Manzoor Shah NEW YORK & SRINAGAR, India, Mar 19 2026 (IPS) A new...
GAZA, (PIC) As regional dynamics accelerate and conflict fronts increasingly overlap, the Gaza Strip has returned to the center of Israeli calculations. The recent escalating attacks targeting police personnel in the enclave, as political readings suggest, are part of a broader Israeli...
Gulf states have requested an urgent debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva over Iran's strikes on civilians and energy infrastructure across the Middle East, documents show. A diplomatic note sent by Gulf states,...
The primary danger in the escalating Iran war is no longer the risk of expansion but a complete collapse of restraint. The conflict has surged past a contained bilateral US-Israel versus Iran exchange and become a wider regional crisis fueled...
A senior US State Department official recently summarised the Trump administration’s approach to regime change in three words: “ decapitate and delegate .” Remove an intransigent leader, weaken the regime through airstrikes, sanctions, and proxies, then compel a successor to...
Lemi Limbu, who has severe intellectual disabilities, remains in prison and will now face retrial for the murder of her daughter A woman with severe intellectual disabilities in Tanzania has had her conviction and death sentence quashed after spending more than...
Il concetto di guerra mondiale non dovrebbe limitarsi alle immagini del passato. L’attuale Terza Guerra Mondiale, combattuta dalle steppe del Donbas alle montagne dell’Iran, non assomiglia a nulla del XX secolo Segue nostro Telegram . Molte persone hanno difficoltà a...
Across hundreds of call centres in Morocco , conversations unfold without pause. Agents switch between scripts and carefully modulated accents to sell energy contracts, insurance policies, or telecommunications offers to customers in France , whom they will never...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran's natural gas facilities if it strikes Qatar again, following an attack on the Ras Laffan gas plant on Wednesday. Trump said on his Truth Social site that the US would...
How the Israel/US unprovoked war of aggression is transforming into a world war. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium . Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter Cross-posted from...
The Egyptian army has launched a comprehensive crackdown on "unauthorised gold mining" along the border with Sudan , raising speculation that unrest in the southern neighbouring country is seeping into Egypt. Footage of clashes between Egyptian border guards,...
An Iranian missile strike caused extensive damage to Qatar's largest gas plant on Wednesday evening, escalating the destructive war on both sides of the Gulf and triggering a diplomatic crisis between the previously friendly nations. Qatar expelled...
The global crisis around Israel and Iran reveals deeper processes that are changing the balance of power in the world and calling into question previous ideas about international politics. The Bible says the entire world will turn against Israel at...
Various observers are emphasizing that the US-Israeli war against Iran is either hurting or helping China. Some argue that “China has a lot to lose,” that the war is “unsettling China and its ambitions,” or that “Xi Jinping’s geopolitical chessboard is starting...
Remnants of war, foremost landmines and unexploded ordnance, remain among the most dangerous challenges for residents hoping to return to their villages in the countryside of Latakia province in western S yria . This is particularly the case...
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) saw its first wins along with several losses in this week's Illinois Democratic primaries, showing the lobby group's continued strength but also its limitations. The state had multiple primary races on Tuesday that...
A psychological warfare campaign orchestrated by Zionist interests targeted Trump to drive him into war with Iran As the chaos and destruction of the war in Iran escalates by the day, a lesser known element of the conflict remains ensconced...
GAZA, (PIC) Al-Majd Security website announced on Wednesday that an assassination attempt targeting a resistance leader in central Gaza was thwarted following a “high-level intelligence operation.” The site stated that security forces arrested two individuals involved in the plot and seized weapons...
GAZA, (PIC) A 14-year-old boy was killed on Wednesday evening after a wall collapsed on him in Gaza City. According to the PIC correspondent, the victim, Adham Al-Attar, was a displaced child who died when a wall fell due to strong winds...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces carried out pre-dawn raids on Thursday across multiple areas of the West Bank, detaining more than 11 Palestinians, including a journalist. In the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, Israeli forces conducted a large-scale incursion,...
The Russo-Ukrainian war, which began in February 2014, shows no signs of ending. Credit: UNOCHA/Dmytro Filipskyy By Nickolay Kapitonenko KYIV, Ukraine, Mar 19 2026 (IPS) It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the tension, violence and uncertainty in the world in...
Two recent developments in the unprovoked Israel/US war of aggression against Iran Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor,...
Nigeria had largest increase in terrorism-related deaths, ranking fourth in global index behind Pakistan, Burkina Faso and Niger Jihadist violence rose sharply in Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo last year, even as global deaths from terrorism dropped to their lowest...
This week, the first students completed a three-year degree course, ready to treat displaced people and pro-democracy fighters unable to risk government-run hospitals It was a remarkable, but secretive, ceremony that took place earlier this week for a class of 21...
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, which he calls Iran’s “crown jewel” because it houses a terminal that processes about 90% of Iran’s oil exports. After the U.S. bombed Kharg last week but spared its oil...
For decades, U.S. and Israeli officials and analysts have warned that Iran maintains a network of terrorist sleeper cells throughout Latin America, ready to attack Western interests at a moment’s notice. So where are they? With Iran embroiled in a...
Joe Kent’s interview with Tucker tonight was quite revealing. Joe went out of his way to praise Donald Trump — a wise strategy when dealing with a toxic narcissist — and tamped down his anger over the attacks being hurled...
The meeting was addressed by a panel of speakers, including David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States. As the leader of the US Workers League, forerunner of the...
The Iranian national team are continuing to prepare for the World Cup finals and have no intention of pulling out of the tournament even if they will not travel to the United States, soccer chief Mehdi Taj said on Wednesday. Iran...
You’re late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realize your phone is flat. Imagine you could charge it almost instantly by exploiting the strange rules of quantum physics. That’s the promise of quantum batteries....
A dozen Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to push for "gold standard" non-proliferation protections in any agreement with Saudi Arabia on sharing nuclear power technology. The administration of Republican President Donald Trump told leaders of...
Indonesia is often seen as one of Asia’s great demographic opportunities. With a population of more than 275 million and a still-expanding working-age cohort, it has long been expected to ride the same labour-driven growth wave that powered East Asia’s...
President Donald Trump's administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and...
By: Jens Kastner - - - - Photo from the Philippine Star In late February, the Philippine, US and Japanese militaries for the first time moved their joint “Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activities (MMCA)” military exercises from the South China Sea...
In the early hours of a quiet morning in March 2026, a tightly guarded military convoy moved through Kumamoto Prefecture in southern Japan. Its destination was Camp Kengun, a base operated by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The vehicles carried...
This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim families are navigating. The Answer — What 30 Nights With the Quran Built in Muslim Teenagers Thirty nights ago, a series began with...
An influential pro-Iranian armed group in Iraq pledged early Thursday to stop attacking the US embassy for five days, subject to several conditions including that Israel stop strikes south of Beirut. AFP reported no drone or rocket attacks so...
Iran says Israel struck facilities in the huge South Pars gas field on Wednesday in a major escalation in the US-Israeli war that sent oil prices shooting higher. Iran then attacked oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf,...
US and Israeli operations have continued to degrade Iran’s military capabilities while increasingly targeting the regime’s internal security apparatus. Strikes on Basij internal security and police units, alongside assassinations and reported morale issues, may be beginning to affect the regime’s...
During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the...
Let me bury the lede just a bit: In December of 1862, Union troops under the command of Ambrose Burnside crossed the Rappahannock river by pontoon bridge and occupied the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in an attempt to come to...
Falling shrapnel that struck a hair salon in the occupied West Bank killed at least three women on Wednesday, marking the first Palestinian deaths of the ongoing Middle East War. The deaths came shortly after Israel's military reported another round of...
Progressive Democrats lambasted additional funding for the U.S. war on Iran at a presser Wednesday. “We can, in fact, ensure that this Congress doesn't send not one more dollar for a war with Iran,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said at...
We are now on Part 4 and it might seem we are gilding the Lilly. But here’s the thing: What is going on in the Persian Gulf is rotten beyond words. The rogue madman in the Oval Office has detonated...
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / Four women were killed and at least six others wounded on Wednesday evening when rocket shrapnel struck the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, Palestinian medical and security officials said. The Palestine Red Crescent...
Before launching his war on Iran, President Donald Trump said his most important goal was that Iran would “never have a nuclear weapon.” Yet it is not clear what, if anything, his administration has planned for dealing with Iran’s stock...
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