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Advocacy, Censorship, Central Asia & Caucasus

The Palestinian group Hamas on Saturday called on Iran to refrain from targeting neighbouring countries, while affirming Tehran's right to defend itself against Israel and the United States. "While affirming the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to...

MENA

On a rainy Ramadan afternoon, a mysterious traveler knocks on a troubled family’s door as they are about to eat iftar. This is a three part story. The three parts will be published three nights in a row, inshaAllah. Part...

#Culture, #Life, featured

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has reiterated its strong condemnation of the Zio-American aggression against Iran, stressing that it violates the rules of international law and international humanitarian law, and threatens regional and global security and peace. In a statement, Hamas affirmed...

News, Hamas Movement, Iran

Late on Friday Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that military facilities on Kharg Island were targeted. Read his Truth carefully: Trump is deep into fantasy land. Yes, I think he has lost touch with reality....

Larry C. Johnson

As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East. In a sermon on March 1, 2026, for example,...

Middle East, 9/11 attacks, Block 2

In his monumental work “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, historian Edward Gibbon argued that empires rarely collapse suddenly. Their decline is usually gradual, shaped by long-term structural changes. Yet, history occasionally records moments when...

World, $100 Oil, Block 1

Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to the Middle East who President Donald Trump tasked with negotiating a deal with Iran, does not sound very much like a diplomat lately. “There’s almost no stopping them, they have an endless supply of...

Diplomacy, Witkoff, Trump

Explosions rocked Iraq's capital Baghdad on Saturday after two strikes targeted the powerful Iran-backed group Kataeb Hezbollah , killing two members including a "key figure", security sources said. The strikes are the first in the heart of Baghdad to kill...

MENA

Just over two weeks before President Donald Trump is due to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, Chinese uncertainty over the US leader's goals and the impact of the Iran war hang over the highly...

World

- - - - On February 26, in a demonstration of the Vietnam Communist Party’s support of citizens’ rights, the government has set up early voting areas for 4,000 voters including those on ships, oil rigs, other offshore facilities specialized...

Heavy blasts shook Tehran late Friday, hours after the United States vowed intensified air strikes against Iran and reportedly sent Marines and more ships to the Middle East. After two weeks of war the Islamic republic has doubled down...

MENA

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed a dozen medical staff at a clinic, Lebanese health authorities said Saturday, after Iran-backed Hezbollah's leader said his group was ready for a long confrontation with Israel. Lebanon was drawn into...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Secretary-General of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Naim Qassem, has affirmed that “the country is fighting a legitimate defensive battle against Zio-American aggression.” In a statement on Friday, Qassem said that “Lebanon has been facing continuous aggression for about 15 months,”...

News, Israeli aggression, Lebanon

GAZA, (PIC) Abu Obeida, spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, has applauded the missile counterattacks carried out by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard against Israel on Friday. “The ongoing strikes targeting the entity of the Zionist enemy with advanced and cluster missiles have brought...

News, Abu Obeida, Iran

Israeli strikes in Gaza killed four Palestinians, including two 17-year-olds, in two separate attacks, Palestinian medics said on Friday, with violence continuing in the West Bank and Gaza even as Israel expands its offensive across the region . Israel has...

MENA

The United States on Friday attacked military targets on Iran's main oil hub of Kharg Island , President Donald Trump said, threatening to strike oil infrastructure on the island if Iran continues to block shipping through the Strait...

Energy

This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim families are navigating. Raising Children Who Build for Eternity — Legacy, Sadaqah Jariyah, and the Long Game There is a conversation most...

#Islam, #Life, Development

The United States is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, including its new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei . The reward targets 10 officials associated with Iran's Islamic...

MENA

Japan’s House of Representatives on Friday passed the FY2026 budget, setting the stage for a fight in the upper house — where the government lacks a majority — as opposition parties seek to delay the budget’s passage (they can’t block...

Northeast Asia, Block 4, Japan

French medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said on Friday it had treated over 20 people for injuries after a drone strike set fuel reserves alight in western Sudan , killing 11 people. The strike on the Adikong market near Sudan's...

World

Beijing could resume restrictions on rare-earth exports and halt purchases of United States soybeans if Washington insists on “making trouble” by proceeding with new tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act, according to Chinese commentators and policy observers. The...

US-China, Block 2, China

Israeli evacuation warnings cover 14 percent of Lebanese territory, the Norwegian Refugee Council said Friday, as Israel expanded the zone from which residents were told to leave their homes . Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week...

MENA

The unclaimed airstrikes, likely conducted by the United States as part of US-Israeli operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, have targeted several Tehran-allied militias in Iraq and reportedly caused significant casualties. The US has not commented on these operations,...

Long War Journal, News, Uncategorized

In what has been described as a potential “major escalation” of the Trump administration’s war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly approved a request from US Central Command to move more warships and thousands of Marines to the...

Middle East, Block 3, Iran nuclear program

The Iran war has delivered a verdict on nuclear latency – the strategy of possessing the capability to develop a nuclear weapons program while stopping short of crossing the weaponization threshold. There are significant implications for Northeast Asia, as South...

Northeast Asia, Block 2, Donald Trump

WEST BANK, (PIC) The head of the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Moayad Shaaban, revealed that Israeli settlers carried out 192 attacks across the West Bank over the past two weeks, amid the ongoing regional tensions and war. Shaaban said...

News, Israeli violations, Settlement activity

Key Takeaways - Israel’s military strategy has long relied on psychological dominance and deterrence built on overwhelming violence. - - Massacres during the Nakba helped establish fear as a strategic tool to weaken Palestinian resistance. - - Doctrines such as the Dahiya Doctrine...

Geopolitics, Link, Ramzy Baroud

The airstrike massacre of Russian civilians this week in the city of Bryansk seems to have been a callous, cold-blooded provocation. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Seven people were killed, and more...

Editorial, Europe, Russia & CIS

GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinians, including two teenagers, were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City on Friday evening. According to the PIC correspondent, Israeli aircraft struck a gathering of civilians on Mushtaha Street in Shuja’iyya,...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

On 5 March, thousands of people, including many children, fled their homes in the south and the southern suburbs of Beirut, with many gathering in the streets or attempting to reach safer areas. Children are among the most affected as...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice

Every morning, I see images that I have spent my 47 years of exile from Iran dreading; smoke rising above Tehran’s densely populated, tower-filled skyscape and explosions damaging important cultural sites like the UNESCO World Heritage Golestan Palace...

Middle East, Military, Opinion

BBC editor’s libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here’s why Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and...

Fake News, Media, Media Influence

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region dread the US-Israeli military operation and...

Geopolitics, Ilan Pappé, Link

The narrative of seizing Iranian oil has intensified amongst officials in the Trump administration, Congress, and pro-war media commentators. The discourse seeks to revive a colonial logic of taking a country’s resources while attacking it and disregarding international...

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