Israel faces mounting challenges: a stalled ceasefire in Gaza, rising Hezbollah threats in Lebanon, and a critical security opportunity with Syria.
With ceasefires unraveling on nearly every front, Israel is once again confronting the unstable reality of the Middle East.
Protests in Iran raged Friday night in the Islamic Republic, online videos purported to show, despite a threat from the country’s theocracy to crack down on demonstrators after shutting down the internet and cutting telephone lines off to the world.
At least 65 people have been killed in the protests that began in late December over Iran’s ailing economy and have morphed into the most significant challenge to the government in years.
La Chine a acquis une position dominante dans le secteur des minéraux critiques en Afrique grâce à des investissements à long terme dans les capacités d’extraction et de raffinage, ce qui rend difficile pour les pays africains de progresser dans la chaîne de valeur.
Le sionisme chrétien est devenu un vecteur clé de l’influence israélienne dans les pays du Sud, et l’Afrique du Sud est apparue comme le champ de bataille central.
Autrefois ancré dans la théologie impériale du XIXe siècle, le sionisme chrétien fonctionne aujourd’hui comme un projet politique qui cherche à légitimer le colonialisme israélien à travers des récits religieux. En Afrique du Sud, longtemps bastion de la solidarité entre les Noirs et les Palestiniens, sa propagation rapide et son soutien au lobbying pro-israélien menacent d’éroder le soutien public à la libération de la Palestine.
Volunteers said on Thursday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have transferred dozens of detainees from West Kordofan to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
The RSF is holding more than 19,000 people, including 5,000 civilians, in detention centres in Nyala, which it has designated as the headquarters for its parallel government. Reports indicate several deaths within these facilities due to hunger, torture, and medical neglect.
An internal Hamas assessment suggests the EU’s former top diplomat in the Palestinian territories pursued a personal approach to Gaza that crossed Brussels’ red lines
An internal Hamas document seen by Euractiv suggests that the EU’s former envoy to the Palestinian territories, Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, pursued positions that diverged from official EU policy and were viewed favourably by Hamas leaders in Gaza.
The U.S. is trying to force Lebanon and Syria to normalize with Israel, but neither country sees an advantage in this.
On January 6, the Israeli journalist Barak Ravid published an article at Axios, reporting that the United States had presented Syria and Israel “with a new proposal for a security pact between them that includes establishing a joint economic zone on both sides of the border …” This followed several hours of talks between the sides in Paris the same day, during which the Americans also proposed the establishment of a joint U.S.-Israeli-Syrian “fusion cell” in Amman “to oversee the security situation in Southern Syria and host further talks on demilitarization and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.”
The statement reaffirmed the army’s commitment to being the sole actor responsible for maintaining security in Lebanon, with an emphasis on the area south of the Litani River
Lebanon’s government and army have not made sufficient efforts to disarm Hezbollah, and this is evidenced by the terror group’s efforts, with Iran’s help, to rearm and reestablish its infrastructure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stated on Thursday afternoon.
Manifestațiile de stradă din Iran au ajuns vineri în ziua 13. Mii de oameni au continuat să iasă în stradă, în ciuda amenințărilor. Prințul iranian Reza Pahlavi, fiul exilat al monarhului detronat al Iranului, a făcut apel la protestatari să continue demonstrațiile de stradă încă două nopți și să ocupe centrele orașelor, îndemnând în același timp angajații din sectorul energetic și al transporturilor să înceapă greve la nivel național, informează Iran International.
As environmental crises intensify, environmentally-motivated sabotage and violence (‘eco-tage’ and ‘eco-terrorism’) are likely to play a more prominent role in terrorism discourse. Building on research linking fictional depictions of political violence to public attitudes toward real-world instances, this article examines portrayals of eco-tage and eco-terrorism in influential fiction films from the past five decades.