US troops begin withdrawal from key Iraqi bases
US troops have begun withdrawing from two key Iraqi bases, according to regional media reports, in a sign that the Trump administration is following through with plans to end American…
Turkey to build bomb shelters across the country
Turkey has started building bomb shelters in all 81 provinces, a source familiar with the plans told Middle East Eye. According to the source, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved the…
As Gaza becomes a death camp, German complicity reveals the West’s racist ‘biopolitics’
It is impossible for Germans to see images of Palestinians being starved to death by the Zionist settler-colonial regime without being reminded of their own history. Babies and children reduced…
Gaza, Lebanon, and a controversial Tunisian auteur dominate at the Locarno film festival
In the aftermath of 7 October and ensuing Gaza genocide, major film festivals in Europe and the US have refrained from directly addressing the subject. Most programmers opted to express…
Nearly all fatalities from Afghanistan bus crash were deportees from Iran
More than 70 Afghans, many of whom had recently been deported from Iran, died in a tragic accident in western Afghanistan on Wednesday. Out of the 78 killed in the…
Netanyahu is on a mission to seize the Middle East. Will anyone stop him?
When South Africa brought the charge of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the court gave Israel nine months to present its rebuttal. That expired at…
Assad’s shadow looms over a fractured Syria
The recent violence in Sweida province mark an alarming turning point in the Syrian conflict. This is not only due to the fact that state actors, represented by the General…
How Egypt’s reliance on Israeli gas could blow up in its face
Since the mid-1990s, negotiations over natural gas between Egypt and Israel have oscillated between strict secrecy and political exploitation. In 1994, the first discreet talks began over the possibility of…
What Larijani’s return as security tsar reveals about Iran
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…
How not to despair as Israel’s genocide rages on
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 accepts Gaza ceasefire proposal set out by mediators, sources say
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…
Turkish intel academy calls for urgent security reforms after Israel-Iran conflict
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…
Eighty years after Hiroshima, calls to ‘nuke Gaza’ show how little has been learned
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 condemns Qatar over jailing of Bahai leader
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.…
Israel is the last vestige of European colonialism – so Trump defends it at all costs
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:…