Middle Orient

The growing military collaboration between Israel and Cyprus has intensified Turkiye’s security concerns in the Eastern Mediterranean. Will this trigger Ankara to beef up its military footprint in Northern Cyprus, following similar observations and warnings by Lebanon’s Hezbollah? Israel’s relentless military onslaught against civilians in Gaza has not only embroiled …

Hewlett Packard, Motorola, and other western tech conglomerates have been deeply involved in providing the technological infrastructure that supports Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. This is how they profit from the oppression of Palestinians. On 10 July, Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported that 46,000 Israeli businesses have been forced to shut …

Is Qatar a neutral mediator between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation state, or is it secretly leveraging its financial ties to sway Israeli politics in its favor? As Israel continues to refuse to negotiate a reasonable end to its brutal aggression on Gaza, Tel Aviv has taken to launch …

Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi has upped the ante, threatening Riyadh with huge economic and military consequences if the Saudis continue to align with US policies and support the occupation state. In a strategically-timed message to the Saudi rulers, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the Yemeni Ansarallah movement, warned …

Tel Aviv’s plan to launch a political phase in its ill-conceived Gaza war is likely to end in strategic disaster, just as US artificial constructs failed in Vietnam. One cannot simply sidestep complex social dynamics and strong local resistance to erect false leaders atop synthetic ‘bubbles.’ Lessons from Vietnam: Why …

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed to respond to Israel after deadly airstrikes on Hodeida’s port area left some killed and dozens wounded. Israeli warplanes struck the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding another 87 according to health authorities. It comes a day after …

The Islamic State is on pace to carry out more than double the number of attacks in Iraq and Syria in 2024 than it did the year before, representing the terrorist network’s attempt to reconstitute. The U.S. Central Command announced on Monday that it had tracked 153 ISIS attacks so …

Baghdad is trying to balance its relations with regional and global powers that wield substantial leverage over Iraq.Iraq has downplayed its opposition to Turkish military operations against Kurdish oppositionists inside Iraq to further its bilateral agenda with Ankara.Iraq’s relations with Türkiye are intertwined with tensions between Arab Iraq and the …

In October 2018, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered a speech at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium in front of 80,000 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to promote the patriotic political program “Islam First.” He urged his fellow countrymen to take pride in Iran’s prestige in the region …

Zachary Foster énumère et décrit les 8 catégories, ou niveaux juridiques, qui segmentent la population en Palestine occupée, c’est-à-dire ce qui correspond à ce qu’on appelle l’État sioniste et à ce qu’on appelle les territoires occupés (Gaza et Cisjordanie) Ces niveaux correspondent à des types de populations différents (juifs et …