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Not long after the reciprocal trade agreement between Indonesia and the United States was signed by President Prabowo Subianto and President Donald...
Over the past two years, millions have voiced their solidarity with Palestine, many of whom had never done so before. This support has helped...
When negotiators gather in Geneva on Thursday for the third round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States, the most consequential item in...
At the inaugural Board of Peace meeting in Washington, President Prabowo Subianto pledged that Indonesia would send 8,000 or more troops to join an...
When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was not speaking...
For decades, American military planners have operated on a simple assumption: that overwhelming force, applied decisively, could resolve almost any...
A joint report released recently by Forensic Architecture and Earshot reconstructs Israel’s massacre of aid workers in March 2025. Commencing with...
In a world where eating has become a solitary act, snatched quickly in front of a screen or in the corner of an office, Ramadan arrives to restore the...
When a sitting United States ambassador declares that it would be “fine if they took it all,” diplomacy does not merely slip — it crosses a...
The ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran, mediated by Oman and recently held in Geneva, have been presented by Western diplomacy as...
When President Donald Trump took to social media to demand that former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki withdraw his bid for a return to power,...
Middle East studies is facing a crisis stemming from both funding cuts and a broader marginalization linked to a political climate of rapidly...
The samba school “Rosa do Povo” won the Access Group championship at the 2026 Curitiba Carnival, turning its debut into a high-impact result....
India and Israel have cultivated a robust strategic partnership based on shared interests in defense, technology, agriculture, and counter-terrorism....
It seems that in his second presidential term, Donald Trump is still severely suffering from the same problem he had eight years ago; he fundamentally...
More than 75,000 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza, with tens of thousands more still missing beneath the rubble. They did not die to “build a...
The sky over southern Lebanon no longer carries the promise of rain. It carries the low mechanical hum of drones and the crack of air strikes that...
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s veteran Middle East editor, once offered a deceptively simple formula for surviving the moral challenges of conflict...
When former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Turkey, with the support of Qatar, was replacing Iran as Israel’s major strategic...
In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second largest state has decided to deal with what it regards as an...
It takes a special kind of sentence to stain a legacy. LeBron James found one: “I’ve heard nothing but great things” about Israel — uttered...
While children in Gaza search for warmth inside tents and broken buildings, Washington hosts meetings under the title of a new “Board of Peace”...
Resistance through gaming and fun is the aim of two young women from the Middle East who launched a new card game last week which links the shared...
Legend has it that Jabr and Jabreen were two brothers from the tribe of Zabeed who lived near Tayma, in present-day Saudi Arabia. Jabr, the younger...
Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” inaugurated in early 2026 to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction and potentially supplant UN roles, began with low...
As February 28 approaches, it is important to remember that this process is not merely a closed chapter in Turkey’s past. The deep scars it left on...
“Trump’s challenge isn’t just Tehran. It’s balancing Israel, the donor class, and his own movement—both of which are pulling him in...
By early 2026, US foreign policy appears less anchored in the language of rules and more openly framed in the language of leverage. The past year has...
This week, Indonesia and the United States signed the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade. Most of the negotiation debate focused on tariffs and market...
Ramadan arrives in Gaza this year (2026) for the first time since the ceasefire that came into effect last October. Yet the word “ceasefire” feels...
When a regime starts rationing a prisoner’s light, it is no longer governing — it is unravelling. If credible reports are accurate that Imran...
For years, Washington addressed Tehran through pressure. Sanctions were tightened layer upon layer. Naval deployments in the Gulf were amplified....
The international community does not want to be held accountable to history or its role in Israel’s colonisation of Palestine. With each...
With a sex trafficking, flesh peddling empire of favours, logistics and the good time to be had by the powerful, the gigantic scale of Jeffrey...
Nearly seven months after President Mahmoud Abbas formed the constitutional drafting committee, the president moved a few days ago to release the...
A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one...
This week, Indonesia joined Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates in condemning Israel’s decision to...
Israel’s latest moves in the occupied West Bank are not being framed in dramatic language inside the country. There has been no formal declaration...
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, reaffirmed this week her long-standing position with Gaza and Palestine as she declined an invitation from US...
At the edge of the Red Sea, where history has always been written in salt and blood, a new chapter is quietly unfolding. It is not the clash of...
The revelations by 972 Magazine (https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/) and Local Call have exposed the darkest core of the...
When US and Iranian officials sit in separate rooms in Muscat, passing messages through Omani mediators, people in Iran do not wait for the...
The international community has truly illustrated its fragmented approach to both international law, order and human rights. Not only did the UN...
The most telling image of the Jeffery Epstein saga is not of a private jet or a tropical island. It is the photograph of the frail, brilliant...
“I used to host my sisters for lunch every Friday at the family home, but I stopped that tradition after meat and poultry prices rose,” said Ahmed...
In the rarefied environment of the West Wing, the ghosts of the “Twelve-Day War” that transpired last June still linger in the Situation Room. For...
When Reza Pahlavi spoke on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference this week, he did not simply criticise the Islamic Republic. He urged...
Germany’s complicity in the boundless cruelty of the genocide in Gaza, its unconditional support for the ongoing Nakba in the West Bank and occupied...
A report that an Indonesian citizen is serving in the Israeli military demands a firm response from Jakarta. If the report is correct, the government...
Most analyses of potential US escalation against Iran in the Gulf remain confined to deterrence logic and regional balances of power. The debate often...