Middle Orient

For the third consecutive day, clashes have erupted on the Syrian-Lebanese border between the Syrian Army and drug and arms smugglers from Lebanese tribes residing in villages and towns along the border near al-Qusayr, southern Homs. The confrontations have resulted in casualties on both sides. Syrian Army Gains Ground in …

We do not report in detail on war crimes because these activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. We utterly condemn violations of the laws of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions and crimes against humanity even though …

After Declassified exposed an Israeli army delegation in London, the UK government confirms the officers were given diplomatic immunity from arrest for war crimes. Israeli General Oded Basyuk and his delegation were given special diplomatic immunity to visit Britain last month, the UK government has confirmed.

Royal Air Force surveillance flights towards Gaza keep taking place when hostages are released. The Royal Air Force (RAF) has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all five days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards the strip on the other …

Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians. With the allied victory and collapse of the Ottoman empire in world war one, Britain occupied Palestine which it ruled until 1948. This was formalised by the newly created League of …

Speaking to The National in Munich, Iraq’s top diplomat says changing regional dynamics require greater co-ordination between nations Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein expects that a military confrontation with ISIS will become necessary, and that the international community is increasingly recognising the need to act as the extremist group continues …

U.S. President Donald Trump recently called the Gaza Strip a “demolition site,” and said the Palestinians would be evacuated to Jordan and Egypt, where they would be “thrilled” to live. The U.S. would then take possession of Gaza (“We’ll own it’), and would develop it, creating “thousands of jobs,” making …

Jordan has previous experience in dealing with US President Donald Trump, during his first administration, which showed his tendency to liquidate the Palestinian cause, regardless of considering the constants of the Palestinian cause and the principles of US foreign policy towards it. Given the difficult changing reality that the Gaza …

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Sunday expressed the need to maintain foreign troops in Iraq, Syria amid the evolving events in the region and the potential resurgence of the Islamic State (ISIS). Speaking to reporters at the conclusion of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), Barzani stated that Erbil “views …

Ce qui paraît invraisemblable c’est que tous ces experts, politiciens, larbins, scribouilleurs et parlementaires déchirent leur chemise sur les tombes des dizaines de milliers de gazaouis ensevelis sous les décombres par les hordes sionistes-nazis. Ce qui paraît invraisemblable c’est qu’aucun de ces commentateurs stipendiés par les médias mainstream n’ait percé …