The independent UN Commission of Inquiry’s report noted ‘a widespread or systematic attack directed against the civilian population in Gaza’. A UN investigation concluded on Wednesday that Israel has committed crimes against humanity during its war on Gaza, including that of “extermination”, while saying Israeli and Palestinian armed groups have …

How does the approaching, inevitable end of Europe affect Russia? This is not an easy and idle question, since Russian culture, religion and Russian civilization itself have European, Mediterranean roots. Russia is part of eternal Europe, and we cannot be indifferent to the fate of the Old World, since to …

Forty days after the April 1, 2024 Israeli airstrike in Damascus in which seven senior IRGC Qods Force officials were killed, Qods Force deputy operations commander Gen. Mohsen Chizari was interviewed by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency. In the May 12, 2024 interview, he discussed the role and personality of …

Netanyahu Should Work With Biden, Not Against Him In a surprise announcement on May 31, U.S. President Joe Biden outlined a road map for “an enduring cease-fire [in the Gaza Strip] and the release of all hostages.” The plan, he declared, had been authored by Israel, and he urged Hamas …

And China Is Reaping the Benefits October 7, 2023, was a watershed moment not just for Israel but for the Arab world. Hamas’s horrific attack occurred just as a new order appeared to be emerging in the region. Three years earlier, four members of the Arab League—Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and …

Yemen’s Houthis said on Monday they have arrested an “American-Israeli spy cell”, a few days after the Iran-backed group detained about a dozen United Nations personnel. The alleged cell included former staff of the U.S. embassy in Yemen, according to a television statement from Abdel Hakim Al Khaiwani, the Houthis’ …

Israel has intensified covert strikes in Syria against weapons sites, supply routes and Iranian-linked commanders, seven regional officials and diplomats said, ahead of a threatened full-scale assault on Tehran’s key ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. A June 2 air raid that killed 18 people, including an adviser with Iran’s elite Revolutionary …

Following a historic loss to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party in European elections on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he is dissolving the French parliament. Macron said France will hold new elections on June 30 and July 7, a high-stakes maneuver that the WSJ said “stunned” the nation after …

Fidan’s attendance at the BRICS+ summit comes at a time when Turkey’s dismay with the European Union is growing over pending resumption of the modernization of the Customs Union Treaty. ANKARA — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Sergei Shoigu in Moscow …

Iran’s hard-liners controlled all levers of powers in the Islamic republic during Ebrahim Raisi’s presidency. Despite Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash last month, hard-liners are expected to maintain their dominance as Iranians head to the polls to elect the ultraconservative president’s successor. The powerful Guardians Council on June 9 …