Geography Archives: Middle East

The latest is the martyrdom of 31-year-old Thabat Ibrahim Muhammad Salim, a volunteer doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, on 5 January, 2025.

When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.”

Over all, Washington has provided the regime with $310 billion in military and economic aid, which has been regularly adjusted for inflation, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think tank.

Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people.

On December 12, the Biden administration released its National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate. But as Biden speaks of “countering hate,” he continues to expedite the shipment of weapons that are being used to kill Palestinians.

The fall of Syria was a serious strike against the Axis of Resistance, but all is not lost.

An alarming truth revealed by retired U.S. four-star general Wesley Clark.

Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report.

A half-baked report highlights the double standard U.S. officials use for Israel.

Washington quietly doubled the official number of troops present inside Syria at an unspecified point before the fall of Damascus.

After being denounced by German government officials following its February premiere in Berlin, the film has become one of the year’s most acclaimed works.

Maurice Coakley, in an important assessment of capitalist interstate rivalry, analyses the changing and contradictory nature of imperialism and its impact on revolt against the system.

Human Rights Watch has issued a devastating report concluding Israel is committing the crimes of extermination and genocide in Gaza by focusing on one crucial issue: water.

The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?

RAMZY BAROUD explains that with the world already unable or unwilling to confront Israel’s murderous devastation of Gaza, it is likely to seize the opportunity to annex the larger but equally vulnerable West Bank territory.

Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West.

The Israeli military’s destruction of entire Palestinian cities and neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip is a clear manifestation of the genocide Israel has been committing in Gaza for the past 14 months, and a primary tool for its implementation.

Iran is now the key to the world.

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Four Palestinian journalists were killed in separate Israeli attacks within five days amid the ongoing assault in Gaza, with media freedom organizations accusing Israel of committing “war crimes” against journalists there.

This case has been widely highlighted as one of the consequences of the intense Islamophobia whipped up, largely in order to justify the U.S.’ ‘War on Terror’.