A year on from the ceasefire, displaced civilians in south Lebanon continue to live under near-daily Israeli airstrikes, drones, and military occupation South Lebanon – Ali Hammoud looked worn out, staring blankly at the little fire and the pot of boiling vegetables that would soon be his dinner. There is …

Reuters reported that Syrian, Kurdish, and American officials are racing against time to show progress, even if limited, on the March 10 agreement before the end of the year. The agency quoted several Syrian, Kurdish, and Western sources, involved in or briefed on the talks, as saying that negotiations had …

Dans une lettre ouverte publiée dans la Berliner Zeitung, l’auteur déclare au chancelier allemand que la paix en Ukraine ne peut être atteinte en faisant comme si les préoccupations sécuritaires de la Russie n’existaient pas. Vous avez maintes fois évoqué la responsabilité de l’Allemagne en matière de sécurité européenne. Cette …

It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy had belittled Europe’s efforts in terms of ensuring its own security, not least …

Latest Developments Netanyahu Announces Massive Gas Deal: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the signing of a gas deal with Egypt on December 17 valued at approximately $35 billion. Hailing the agreement as the “largest gas deal in Israel’s history,” Netanyahu asserted that the “deal greatly strengthens Israel’s status as …

Unsurprisingly, the National Security Strategy (NSS) has set off a storm across the Atlantic. The German chancellor called parts of the document “unacceptable,” while the president of the European Council warned that Europeans must now “protect themselves even against the allies who defy them.” For Manfred Weber, head of the …

The Arab world was already badly divided when recent wars and military conflicts broke out between state actors and between them and nonstate actors in 2023. But paradoxically, these tremors have created conditions that led to almost unprecedented coordination and diplomatic activism among key Arab states, along with a willingness …

US and Jordanian forces have launched an operation against ISIS in Syria, killing at least five members of the extremist group including a cell leader, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The US strikes overnight on Friday were a response to an attack in Palmyra last …

Syria has seized drones and explosives from a suspected ISIS hideout in Damascus, in a swoop it said “confirms” it is capable of fighting extremists. The raid, in which a suspected member of ISIS was arrested, was one of two against the group announced in the space of 24 hours. …

« Palestine 36 » nous rappelle avec force que le plan des crimes de guerre abjects commis par Israël à Gaza a été élaboré par un empire britannique dont les Palestiniens ont tenté – en vain – de mettre fin à la tyrannie. Quiconque s’interroge sur les raisons pour lesquelles …