As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, and with no end in sight to the war or military occupation, Israel’s renewed push for the clan management of public affairs in the West Bank and Gaza has been called a desperate attempt to bypass Palestinian statehood. The latest manifestation of this strategy …

Political consultations intensified in Lebanon on Tuesday ahead of a cabinet session at Baabda Presidential Palace, where ministers are expected to debate the sensitive issue of Hezbollah’s weapons. The session comes amid mounting tensions in the streets, with Hezbollah supporters staging late-night motorbike rallies in Beirut’s southern suburbs and regions …

Unifying and deradicalizing Syria’s armed forces will be the regime’s most formidable challenge. The United States has now lifted all sanctions on Syria, except on some individuals and entities associated with the former Assad regime. Additionally, the United States has revoked the foreign terrorist organization designation for Syria’s Hayat Tahrir …

Earlier this year, the Arab Gulf states were riding high. The energy crisis that followed the coronavirus pandemic had filled their coffers and renewed their roles as the stewards of global oil markets—and, in Qatar’s case, a reliable source of liquefied natural gas. Over the past few years, the Gulf …

For more than a decade, Chinese politics has been defined by one man: Xi Jinping. Since Xi assumed leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, he has made himself into a strongman ruler. He has remade the CCP elite through a wide-ranging purge and corruption crackdown. He has curbed …

Last week, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, held a conference The Gaza Riviera–from vision to reality. Fascist lawmakers presented plans to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians, annexe it to Israel and re-establish Jewish settlements there. This would include building two cities in Gaza, one in the north and south …

The Hungarian prime minster has been influential in pressing the case that civil society groups use EU cash to lobby MEPs on green and other left-wing issues – claims that the groups call a smear campaign to oust liberal voices from policymaking. At home, Orban and his ruling Fidesz party …

Unifying and deradicalizing Syria’s armed forces will be the regime’s most formidable challenge. The United States has now lifted all sanctions on Syria, except on some individuals and entities associated with the former Assad regime. Additionally, the United States has revoked the foreign terrorist organization designation for Syria’s Hayat Tahrir …

HTS is a radical terrorist organization that is directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Syria in the past seven years. Although the organization liberated Syria from its brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad, we recommend that you never forget its origins and deeds along the way, …

The Government of East Turkestan in exile has issued a stark warning against recent efforts to integrate Chinese Uyghur fighters into the newly restructured Syrian army, calling the move a dangerous geopolitical ploy that risks distorting the Uyghur people’s legitimate struggle for independence. In a statement posted on its official …