Tensions escalate between Israel and Iran as both sides experience hacking attacks, whilst Tehran blames Israeli Mossad for killing two Iranians with a roadside bomb in Damascus. Last Wednesday a twin-bomb attack was carried out in occupied Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and injuring at least 14 others. The attack brought back memories of the early Read More...
Israel’s escalating presence inside the occupied West Bank is leading to even greater violence. Within one day the body of an Israeli soldier was taken hostage, as bomb attacks struck Jerusalem. Tel Aviv now weighs a tough response, but at what cost? On Tuesday night Israeli occupation forces accompanied a small group of extremist Israeli Read More...
After firing a series of strikes against Kurdish armed groups in both Syria and Iraq, Turkish President, Recep Tayip Erdogan, has threatened a ground invasion into north-eastern Syria. The strikes have been painted as a response to a terrorist attack in central Istanbul, but what else factors into this decision? On Sunday, the Turkish military Read More...
The Qatar 2022 World Cup has been the target of much controversy in recent months, with Western nations making things political. Whilst it was once the standard to bar politics in sport, it is now fine to include political messaging, except if your message violates Western government guidelines. Despite FIFA, UEFA and the IOC’s explicit Read More...
US President Joe Biden told a crowd of his supporters that he would “free Iran”, a claim that the White house was quick to backtrack on. Yet, despite Washington’s denialism, is a regime change war against Iran on the US agenda? Since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September, after she was detained Read More...
Drone strikes were launched against a convoy of trucks, carrying fuel, along the Syria-Iraq border this Wednesday morning, reportedly causing up to 25 deaths. Despite the possible implications of the attack, it has gone largely underreported in Western media. A fuel convoy, consisting of around 22 trucks, came under attack from Israeli drone strikes this Read More...
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is now poised to form the next Israeli government, after defeating his main opponents Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid in Tel Aviv’s fifth election in only three years. However, the longest serving Israeli Prime Minister has come out at the expense of putting himself at the mercy of fanatical ultra-nationalists that may Read More...
Despite the attempts of the Israeli military to put down Palestinian armed resistance by force, armed attacks against Israeli settlers and soldiers are rapidly increasing. A trend of new armed groups announcing themselves throughout the West Bank has led to policies of collective punishment (a flagrant war crime) against entire Palestinian populations inside cities and Read More...
Lebanon and Israel have concluded a maritime-border demarcation agreement, granting Lebanon the right to explore and extract natural gas from the Qana field prospect to its coast. The agreement may have averted not only a Lebanon-Israel war, but also tells us a lot about the strategic thinking of Lebanese Hezbollah and how it achieved granting Read More...
Moscow’s highly effective usage of Iranian drone technology in Ukraine has sparked a fierce backlash from Washington and its NATO allies. However, the criticism of Tehran for supplying drones, and in the future possibly ballistic missiles to Russia, reflects astounding Western hypocrisy. Calls for everything from a probe into Iranian drone usage in Ukraine to Read More...
