For decades, Iran has targeted and killed Americans and US allies. Its proxies took hostages. It attacked ships in the Gulf of Oman. Now, America is responding.
US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US had begun major combat operations against Iran yesterday was different from his comments in the past about Tehran.
Young people in Palestine are accused of being ignorant of their past. But the truth may be that they are more aware of their present than anyone else.
Palestinian youth are a foreign country; they do things differently there—not because they reject politics, but because the political institutions around them no longer function. But the implications for diplomacy and politics have not sunk in, especially regarding the structures that have upheld Palestinian political life over many decades but are now in severe decay.
This report is part of MEMRI’s repository of contemporary and historical foundational documents of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement.
The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an arm of the Qatari regime for disseminating extremist Islamist, anti-Western and antisemitic ideology,[1] maintains close ties with the terrorist organization Hamas, in line with Qatar’s decades-long policy of supporting terrorist organizations around the world. Both the IUMS and Hamas are closely affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), whose branches in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan were designated by the U.S. as terrorist on January 13, 2026, with a similar designation being considered by the E.U.[2]
A comprehensive, forward-looking strategy for the South Caucasus that also factors in the potential of Central Asia is critical to help the South Caucasus strengthen its competitiveness, diversify its economic relations, and move beyond its traditional path dependencies. One key step would be to establish a regional cooperation framework that leverages the industrial potential of countries such as Uzbekistan by linking them more closely with EU technology and Turkey’s commercialization capacity. This would make envisaged connectivity projects meaningful and truly transformative. At the same time, smaller South Caucasus economies could benefit from targeted sectoral transformation in areas such as cultural exchanges, ecotourism, and IT, which offer opportunities for inclusive job creation.
L’Amérique est-elle un pays indépendant ou un État fantoche d’Israël ?
Comment les nations sont détruites
La fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ne marqua que le début de la destruction de l’Allemagne. Les Américains prirent le contrôle du système éducatif allemand. Ce contrôle leur permit de définir les programmes et de rédiger les manuels scolaires. Cette mainmise américaine sur l’éducation fut utilisée pour culpabiliser les Allemands d’être Allemands. On leur enseigna que le Troisième Reich était un crime contre l’humanité rendu possible par le nationalisme allemand. Chaque aspect du Troisième Reich devint indéfendable. Toute forme de nationalisme allemand fut suspectée d’être une résurgence du nazisme.
“Look at our times a handful of imposter clerics
Having no notion of reason and science
Having no notion of what man is about
Desperate like donkeys in search of fodder
All they care about is eating and fornicating
Have cast aside notions of shame and honor
They seek nothing but loot and plunder
Alien they are to rules of faith.”
— Sanai, 11th century Persian poet, from a samizdat distributed in the “holy” city of Qom, the bastion of Iranian clergy, February 20, 2026, the 40th day of the deaths of thousands of protesters across Iran.
A bruising, nearly three-hour exchange between conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has ignited political backlash across the Middle East and exposed deep fractures within the American right over Israel, religion, and US foreign policy. Filmed at Ben-Gurion Airport, the wide-ranging interview mixed theology, Gaza war ethics, espionage controversies, and sensational allegations—some of which Carlson later retracted.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched an ambitious diplomatic offensive aimed at unifying the Sunni world under Ankara’s leadership. The objective is not merely reconciliation with former rivals. It is the construction of a Sunni diplomatic and strategic “wall,” or “noose,” around Israel, replacing the Iranian “Shi’ite crescent” with a new configuration of Sunni power.
The leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said in a speech on the occasion of World Mother Language Day that “the Republican Decree on the recognition of the Kurdish language as a national language in Syria is an achievement and a big and positive step, but it is not enough.”
On Saturday, February 22, the Islamic State claimed the death of three members of the Syrian Defense Ministry in northeastern Syria, two days after it claimed responsibility for another attack in Deir ez-Zor province.