President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy…
UC Berkeley scholars warn that “With plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate monitoring agencies and even…
The Israeli parliament on Monday passed legislation declaring the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, authorized by the UN General Assembly in 1949, to…
The limited strikes on Iran carried out by Israeli fighter-jets early on Saturday morning Tehran time above all demonstrated the constraints under…
Earlier this month the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory issued a report demanding that Israel, in the words…
At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: the Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving…
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Al Jazeera Arabic reports that the Israeli occupation army committed yet another massacre on Monday evening, targeting a tent encampment of internally displaced…
Although the United Nations has not officially declared a famine in Gaza, people living there are in no doubt about it. The New…
Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf, The Lancet calculate that 186,000 or more people have been killed by the Israeli total war on…
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