In a move that surprised many in Iran, former moderate parliament speaker Ali Larijani was recently appointed secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the body that holds ultimate authority…
You follow the news day in and day out – and you despair. Soon, it will be two years since Israel unleashed its latest round of genocidal savagery against defenceless…
Hamas told Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Monday that the group has accepted the Gaza ceasefire proposal that had been presented to them earlier that day, sources told Middle East…
A new report compiled by the Turkish National Intelligence Academy on Israel’s 12-day war with Iran suggests that Ankara must take a comprehensive set of steps, ranging from ramping up…
On 22 May 2025, the register of all victims of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima was brought out from its stone-chamber cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, following a…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised Qatar for handing a five-year jail sentence to the leader of the country’s Bahai community, denouncing it as an attack on his religious freedom.…
At a July rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Donald Trump used a telling turn of phrase. While touting the benefits of his recently passed tax-and-spend bill, the American president remarked:…
Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it. Recognition for its Zionist…
A sudden panic has gripped supporters of Israel across the world. Western neo-colonial regimes, including the white settler-colonies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, are most anxious about the fate…
When Israel launched a surprise 12-day assault on Iran in June, Tehran and the world were caught off guard. Few anticipated such a move, particularly while Iran was engaged in…
‘A graveyard for Trump’s mercenaries’ The agreement reached at the White House between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to secure peace in the South Caucasus has provoked fury among…
For consumers of Arab news media, Samir Hulileh’s name has been making headlines since Monday. The soft-spoken Palestinian economist, businessman and former political aide to the Palestinian Authority (PA) has…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday issued yet another ultimatum to Syrian Kurdish armed groups, urging them to abandon hopes of cooperating with Israel against Damascus and to honour…
A freeze by France on evacuations of Palestinians from Gaza precedes a claimed incident of antisemitism by a Palestinian evacuee, according to media reports. On 1 August, French Foreign Minister…
Watching the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East in recent months, it would be tempting to conclude that Israel’s strategic position has improved. The same could be said for Turkey.…