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A new report released yesterday by the UN Commission of Inquiry states that Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire agreement...
For nearly half a century, Iran’s adversaries have tried to isolate it, intimidate it, sanction it into submission and bomb it into irrelevance....
Within eight days in October, US President Donald Trump made two statements about two wartime leaders that, placed side by side, read like a...
The assault on an Egyptian journalist, who was beaten and dragged along the ground outside 6 October Central Hospital, west of Cairo, just days ago,...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election safeguards the country’s path towards determining its...
There appears to be little prospect of lasting peace between Iran and the United States while Donald Trump remains in the White House. This is a view...
In 1956, Britain was forced to abandon the Suez Canal and withdraw from Egypt after a humiliating political and financial defeat. The crisis did not...
The persistent violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank has become such common fare it risks...
Marine bunkering services have begun at Gwadar. Meanwhile, according to reporting in June 2026, the proposed $10 billion Saudi refinery announced for...
Chile has taken a new step in strengthening its historic relationship with Palestine through the official establishment of the Chile–Palestine...
On Thursday, Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry defended the country’s seat on the Board of Peace. Ministry spokesperson Vahd Nabyl Mulachela said...
When Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan’s army chief, met Iranian leaders in Tehran last Tuesday, he heard a familiar message in a harder form....
President Trump’s pre-midterm pause on strikes against Iran landed as a claim of diplomatic momentum, not a concession of failure. The pause was...
When Egyptian officials signalled their readiness to support Saudi Arabia against attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, the announcement was...
Yemen’s prolonged conflict is frequently discussed through the familiar language of ceasefires, military de-escalation, humanitarian assistance and...
Iran’s latest military doctrine rests on a dangerous proposition: a country does not have to defeat a superior enemy on the battlefield to deny it a...
A seabed survey is usually an engineering step. For the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), it has become a test of how far Greece, Cyprus and Türkiye...
Israel’s forthcoming elections on 27th October, the first since the events of 7th October three years ago and their aftermath, are taking place amid...
The international community prefers not to address the fact that violence poses a permanent threat to food security and, as a result, to any...
Emmanuel Macron’s phrase landed like a cracked whip in the stale air of Western politics. “As unacceptable as they are stupid.” The target was...
On Wednesday, 21st October, four Muslim-majority countries signed a new defence agreement in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Turkiye, Qatar, Pakistan...
Within hours of the ink drying in Doha, the label arrived: another “Muslim NATO.” It is the wrong label for the wrong agreement. On Wednesday,...
On October 21, the Financial Times reported that Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed his military to prepare a multi-day bombing campaign against Iran...
The stadium is empty, but Israel is still in the game. Though any form of isolation of those responsible for genocide is welcome, the growing movement...
Two days ago, on 20 October, Gaddafi’s supporters marked the fifteenth anniversary of his death. Killed and hurriedly buried in a secret grave whose...
For Ali Nattat, the day begins with a look at the sky. In Gaza, the sunlight falling on his solar panels determines whether he can keep his...
Twice recently, Israeli Jewish mob terror in the occupied West Bank broke through the international media’s wall of self-censorship: first, when the...
Qatar’s Ooredoo is working to establish a new data route from the Persian Gulf to Turkiye and Europe through Iraq. On 7th October 2026, its...
Israel has proposed reviving the Ashkelon-Eilat pipeline to divert oil cargo away from the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandeb in the Red Sea. The...
Observations have become the only way in which the UN feigns intervention against Israeli colonial violence. A recent press release published by the...
The relationship between the United States and Israel has long been presented as an alliance founded on shared democratic values, strategic interests...
Egyptians had barely begun to take comfort in President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s pledge not to tamper with the Constitution and his assurance that...
A navy can control water. It can’t make a merchant captain sail through it. Warships stop missiles, sure, but no admiral can promise a shipping...
The paradox has acquired a second dimension, and it is written in the ruins of Gaza. Indonesia, a nation that presents itself to the world as a rising...
In Herat, construction on the TAPI pipeline is advancing, raising questions about when local businesses and households might receive its gas....
In January 2018, after a book questioned his mental fitness, the president of the United States sat down and wrote his own diagnosis. “My two...
There is something magnificently obscene about a civilization that treats association with a sex trafficker as a moral scandal but endorsement of a...
What would George Orwell make of today’s debates over identity, integration, and the Muslim veil in Europe? It is an impossible question, of course....
Iran is turning to its land borders for ways to keep trade moving as the U.S. naval blockade constrains shipping. But these routes are best seen as a...
The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening. It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces...
Anne Frank would be 97 years old if she were alive in 2026. We know that her life was cut short by the German Gestapo. Bergen-Belsen concentration...
Mansour Abbas is offering Israel a practical demonstration that Arabs and Jews can share responsibility for their country. Benjamin Netanyahu presents...
Ask most people what the Gulf crisis will cost the world and they will say oil. Fair enough. Prices are the part we can watch every morning. But the...
The distant thunder of drones over Adigrat is not merely another African conflict. It is the sound of a continent’s most fragile peace...
If reports are true that Benjamin Netanyahu tried to offer Israeli involvement on Saudi Arabia’s side in the war in Yemen, this should not be read...
The phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa—following months of firing salvos via...
Colombia’s decision to withdraw from South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), followed by the...
In recent days, three developments have emerged as key preliminary indicators that the US may be preparing to step up its military campaign against...
Developments in Yemen today cannot be separated from the repercussions of the war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran. The prolonged...
Mere days after Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered a detailed plan for the return of over 33,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israeli...