Middle Orient

Latest Developments Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during a visit to Qatar on June 9. Fidan arrived in Doha for a ministerial meeting of the Turkey-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) High Level Strategic Dialogue. His encounter with Haniyeh took place on the sidelines of the …

“Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it” (Frantz Fanon)[2] Uncomfortable Truths In October 2003, …

It’s a criminal act under the eyes of the world. Israel’s Nusseirat massacre with the active cooperation of American help is grotesque by any standard for the 250 Israeli strikes made on the camp during this flagrant military operation. The number of innocent Palestinians killed kept climbing up on the …

Iran’s electoral Guardian Council has approved the candidacy of six political figures for the snap elections that follow the death of Ebrahim Raisi, rejecting dozens of other potential candidates. Iran’s Interior Ministry announced Sunday the final list of candidates for the upcoming presidential elections that was approved by the hard-line …

This past week Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 52 attacks on military and civilian targetsin northern Israel. Falaq-2 rockets were used for the first time. A soldier was killed and 12 otherswere injured in a UAV attack in Hurfeish, and a UAV fell in the Jezreel Valley, 40 kilometers fromthe border, …

Comme le souligne le célèbre mathématicien russe Igor Shafarevich dans son essai sur la question juive, les juifs aiment s’attribuer le mérite de presque tout, alors qu’en réalité, ils n’ont inventé ou contribué que très peu à l’histoire moderne et n’ont pu faire ce qu’ils ont fait qu’en utilisant les …

At least 12 pro-regime fighters were killed in an overnight Israeli strike that targeted a factory near Aleppo in the north of Syria a Syrian monitor reported early Monday, according to The New Arab. “Twelve pro-Iranian fighters of Syrian and foreign nationalities were killed, according to an initial tally, in …

Syria’s foreign minister said Tuesday that any dialogue between Syria and Turkey should only take place after Ankara announces that it will withdraw its troops from all Syrian territories it controls, AP reported. Faisal Mekdad made the comments during a joint news conference with Iran’s acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri …

The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Hossein Salami on Wednesday threatened retaliation after an alleged Israeli strike killed an Iranian adviser in Aleppo, Syria, earlier this week, Times of Israel reported. In comments made the day after IRGC adviser Saeed Abyar was buried in Tehran, Salami was quoted …

Russia said it “ targeted two terrorist bases in the Al-Tanf area, controlled by the United States, in the Syrian province of Homs”, according to Athr Press. The Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, a branch of the Russian Defense Ministry, announced on Tuesday the execution of air strikes in the …