Mass displacement, settler violence, and Israeli military killings have surged across the West Bank, driven by an unbridled campaign to seize Palestinian land
West Bank – In Burqin, a hillside village overlooking Jenin in the northern West Bank, the Abdullah family mourns a heavy loss.
The Lebanese Army announced the arrest of nine Lebanese nationals and 35 Syrians in the districts of Akkar, Tripoli, Batroun, Baalbek, and Hermel, on charges of “committing various crimes, including opening fire, possessing weapons, using drugs, smuggling people, and illegal roaming.”
The US news website Axios reported on Sunday, January 4, 2026, that senior Syrian and Israeli officials will meet in Paris on Monday.
Axios cited an Israeli official and another source familiar with the matter as saying the meeting will address resuming negotiations over the security agreement between the two sides.
Failure to air footage of Israeli soldiers executing unarmed Palestinians shows the corporation’s true bias
When it was revealed in November 2025 that a BBC programme edited a section of Donald Trump’s speech on 6 January 2021 to reinforce the idea that the freshly deposed president was calling on his supporters to take violent action at the US Capitol, both the director general and head of news resigned and the corporation immediately apologised for its behaviour.
The British government has a new policy promoting weapons exports to Syria, whose regime is led by former Al-Qaeda operatives
The UK government has issued new guidance to businesses outlining “opportunities” to export British arms to the country.
Palestinians stranded by newly drawn boundary question when they can return home
Despite the declared end of the war on the Gaza Strip under the agreement signed in October 2025, thousands of Palestinians continue to live in a state of forced displacement.
Le sionisme s’est toujours appuyé sur des mythes, des distorsions et des mensonges pour conserver le soutien du public occidental. Ces inepties sionistes ont maintenu des générations de sionistes juifs et de sympathisants non juifs de ce projet raciste dans une totale désinformation.
The Damascus government factions declared Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh military zones, triggering heavy fighting, civilian casualties, mass displacement, and strong reactions from Kurdish leaders and rights groups.
The Damascus government factions on Wednesday declared the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh in Aleppo a closed military zone, ordering the shutdown of all entry and exit routes and triggering renewed fighting, civilian displacement, and sharp reactions from Kurdish authorities and human rights monitors.
Units of the Syrian army have surrounded the Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh in Aleppo, marking the latest escalation after a series of clashes between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which control 30 percent of Syrian territory, and the Asayish, the SDF-affiliated internal security force.
Russia’s apparent fast-tracking of plans to establish a military hub in Libya could worsen that country’s protracted conflict.
For Russia, as for Iran, last month’s fall of the 54-year-old Assad dynasty in Syria was a major geo-strategic setback. Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s sudden defeat threatened Russia’s important military presence in the eastern Mediterranean.