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US President Donald Trump on Saturday said countries that rely on oil carried through the Hormuz strait should take responsibility for keeping the passage open, with American help. Global oil prices have surged by 40 percent as...

MENA

Turkey’s foreign minister said on Saturday that there is no serious initiative to resume negotiations between the United States and Iran but that he believes Iran is open to back-channel talks. The comments by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to The...

MENA

Iran's envoy to Ukraine, Shahriar Amouzegar, dismissed the support Kyiv has offered to the United States and its Gulf allies, after Ukraine advertised its expertise in destroying Iranian-designed drones launched by Russia. Iran has been attacking countries across the region...

MENA

Israel and Lebanon are expected to hold direct talks in the coming days, reports in Israeli media said on Saturday, in what would be a diplomatic milestone between the two states as Israel and the Lebanese...

MENA

UK police approved an annual demonstration to commemorate Quds Day on Sunday in London , amid tight security measures and strict warnings against displaying certain pro-Palestinian slogans. The approval comes as the UK Supreme Court prepares...

World

UN chief Antonio Guterres said Saturday on a visit to Beirut that diplomatic channels remained open to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah and urged the international community to support Lebanon . Lebanon was dragged into the...

MENA

Iranian authorities say they have arrested dozens of people on charges of espionage, links to foreign entities, and plotting unrest as security forces carry out a nationwide crackdown during the US and Israel's ongoing war on the country...

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Israeli and Lebanese representatives are expected to meet for a round of talks in the coming days in an attempt to pursue diplomacy as Israel’s assault on Lebanon intensifies, according to media reports. Although no official announcement...

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Arab and international calls to halt the war in the region are intensifying as the conflict enters its third wee k and the US-Israeli war on Iran continues, with Iran launching missile strikes on states in the...

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The Iranian army on Saturday claimed to have inflicted "significant damage" on one of the US’s largest aircraft carriers , forcing it to withdraw from the region. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards earlier said it had conducted a successful missile and...

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Turkey expressed deep concern Saturday over Israel's ongoing strikes on Lebanon , voicing fears it could commit "a new genocide " under the guise of fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah. "We are frankly concerned (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu is moving...

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Three Palestinians were killed on Saturday as Israeli forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip , despite a ceasefire that has been repeatedly violated by Israel since October. Asmaa Hussein al-Saeedi, 54, died after being shot...

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Oil export operations from Iran's Kharg island in the Gulf were proceeding as normal Saturday after US strikes on the crude export hub which caused no casualties, a regional official said. Activities of oil companies "at this...

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As the US and Israel’s assault on Iran grinds on, the Trump administration has issued increasingly bellicose claims that American and Israeli forces are delivering ferocious blows to the Iranian regime. The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, warned of...

Asia Times, Block 1, Donald Trump

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detonated a house belonging to the family of prisoner Azmi al-Masalmeh in the city of Dura, south of al-Khalil, on Saturday. The prisoner’s father, Nader al-Masalmeh, said that Israeli forces stormed his house early in...

News, Demolition policy, Palestinian prisoners

Some oil-loading operations have been suspended in the United Arab Emirates' Fujairah emirate, a major bunkering hub and crude export terminal, after a drone attack and fire on Saturday, industry and trade sources said. The suspension comes...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, sent a congratulatory message to Mujtaba Khamenei on the occasion of his election as leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, succeeding the previous supreme leader the late Ali Khamenei. The Movement said in a...

News, Hamas Movement, Iran

Palestinian neighbourhoods in Haifa are facing a growing shelter crisis, with residents accusing Israeli authorities of pursuing policies that deepen discrimination and effectively exclude Palestinian communities from basic protection during wartime. Haifa, a city of around 1.2 million people in...

MENA

US airstrikes targeting leaders of Iran-linked Iraqi factions in Baghdad early Saturday have raised fears of a dangerous escalation in Iraq, potentially pushing the country toward further confrontation between Washington and armed groups aligned with Tehran. Local...

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GAZA, (PIC) The General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip called on citizens to take the necessary safety measures to protect themselves from the effects of the dusty air mass hitting the Palestinian skies, as a sandstorm loaded with...

News, Gaza Strip, sandstorm

Four Palestinians were injured in an attack by extremist Israeli settlers south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Saturday morning. Settlers opened fire on residents of the village of Kisan during the raid, the head...

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GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinian citizens were killed and two others were wounded at dawn Saturday following an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza. A medical source reported that Ahmed al-Maghribi, 35, and Musaab al-Raqab, 43, were killed in a strike that targeted a...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Israel's war on Lebanon , which began on 2 March after Hezbollah launched strikes in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been steadily expanding to encompass much of the country. Alongside heavy airstrikes on southern...

MENA

The UK High Court is to conduct an urgent judicial review of the Home Office’s decision to ban this year’s annual Quds Day march , The New Arab understands. Informed sources also said that there were contacts between...

World

Iran's cultural heritage and tourism ministry said Saturday at least 56 museums and historic sites across the country have been damaged, as the US-Israeli war on Iran entered its 15th day. In Tehran, US-Israeli strikes damaged the UNESCO-listed...

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Il partenariato strategico tra Russia e Iran – anche se non prevede un trattato militare – si articola su diversi livelli interconnessi. Segue nostro Telegram . Questa è la seconda parte di un’analisi in due parti. Si prega di leggere...

Italiano, India, Iran

The recent US attack on Iran has raised criticism both internationally and at home due to President Trump’s shift from America First to Israel First and over the Zionist control over the US establishment. US-Israel Strategic Alignment: Historical Patterns Escalating...

Columns, Iran, Israel

Energy leaders convened in Lusaka this week for a high-level meeting of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), bringing the future of the region’s electricity systems firmly into focus. Against a backdrop of rising power demand, ageing infrastructure and...

Africa, Cross-Border Electricity, Energy Access Africa

By Sayid Marcos Tenorio Every year, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, millions of people around the world mobilize to mark the International Day of Al-Quds, the Arabic name for the city of Jerusalem. Established in 1979 by...

Jerusalem, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

NAZARETH, (PIC) Once again, the role of the Israeli judicial system in violations committed against Palestinians has been exposed, after the Israeli military prosecution decided to drop the indictment against five reserve soldiers involved in a case of torture and sexual...

Reports, Gaza victims, Israeli crimes

GAZA, (PIC) Humanitarian and commercial supplies entering the Gaza Strip have sharply declined since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, with Israel allowing only a fraction of the required aid into the besieged enclave, Palestinian officials said. Ismail al-Thawabta, director...

News, Aid convoys, Gaza Strip

BETHLEHEM, (PIC) Four Palestinians were injured on Saturday after Israeli settlers attacked the village of Kisan east of Bethlehem in the West Bank, opening fire on residents and assaulting others, local officials said. Mousa Obeiyat, head of the Kisan village council, said...

News, Bethlehem, settler attacks

Formula One races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will be cancelled or rescheduled as the US-Israeli war on Iran engulfs the region, a source with knowledge of the matter told AFP on Friday. "The F1...

Sports

Moscow is getting more oil revenue and Ukraine will get fewer defensive weapons. By Ted SNIDER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Nobody wins at war. In the war on Iran, fought without legal...

Editor's Choice, Energy, Iran

By George D. O’NEILL Jr. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Once again, we are embroiled in a new foreign war—not surprisingly at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu. The Trump administration chose to...

Editor's Choice, Cuba, Donald Trump

Everything Trump has said about the war with Iran is pure lie or at least a major distortion of the facts. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Everything Trump has said about the...

Middle East, Security, War and Conflict
Trump Sabaoth
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Trump has finally taken an active part in that great war that Israel declares to be God’s will, the Holy World War. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Election and Mandate Sabaoth, a...

Americas, Middle East, World

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 23 people in Lebanon since dawn on Saturday as the Israeli military intensifies its attacks and prepares to launch a ground invasion that one Israeli official said would inflict Gaza-like destruction on the...

MENA

It was after a visit from Netanyahu that the aggressiveness of Washington’s official position towards Tehran leaped forward. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su I certainly wasn’t the only one to conclude, as...

Americas, Middle East, Security

The US-Israeli offensive against Iran has placed Europe in an uncomfortable position. While the assault triggered mixed reactions across Europe, highlighting the continent’s deep political divisions, Iranian retaliation against Gulf infrastructure and US military facilities has...

Analysis

The US embassy in Baghdad was hit by an attack on Saturday following strikes that killed two members of a powerful Iran-backed group in the capital, security sources said. Iraq, long a proxy battleground between the...

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