On April 23, 2025, Jordan has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, its most prominent opposition group, following the discovery of members’ involvement in a sabotage plot aimed at Jordanian authorities.
Interior Minister Mazin Fraya declared a complete ban on the group’s activities, stating that anyone promoting its ideology would face legal consequences.[1]
On April 16, 2025, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Grand Mufti of Libya, Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani, condemned Arab countries like Egypt, Morocco, and the UAE for welcoming Israeli soldiers on leave for Passover as tourists, in a video posted on X. In the video, Al-Ghariani called on Muslims in Egypt and Morocco to kill Israeli soldiers vacationing in these countries during the holiday. He claimed that Israeli soldiers are “blood-shedding murderers” and not civilian tourists.
In-depth: From Beirut’s razed downtown to reconstructing its southern suburbs, war in Lebanon has long served as a pretext for elite-led urban transformation.
Lebanon, reeling from a war that inflicted an estimated $5.1 billion in economic losses, now faces the daunting task of reconstruction.
Syria’s government has spent the past few months putting much diplomatic energy into strengthening its relationships with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members.
The leadership in Damascus sees the oil- and gas-rich Gulf Arab states as extremely important to Syria’s future. The high-profile visits paid by President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Qatar since early January are evidence of this.
Les awakes contre les wokes.
Allez, un petit dernier. Demain, j’arrête Satan. Pour ma défense, c’est lui qui est venu me chercher. Quand je l’ai vu arriver dans Les Survivantes il y a bientôt un an, je me suis dit : ça y est, la panique satanique débarque chez nous. Ayant étudié de près ce phénomène quand il est apparu aux États-Unis dans les années 1990, et la controverse des «faux souvenirs» qui s’en est suivie, et étant fasciné par les hypothèses «métapsychiques» qu’il suggère sur la porosité de l’esprit humain, je me suis senti responsable d’apporter un éclairage critique. (Voir ici, ici et ici mes trois articles sur ce film).
UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson, known for his anti-immigration stance, has been sentenced to 18 months for contempt of court following false allegations against Syrian refugee Jamal Hijazi, defying a 2021 injunction prohibiting further defamatory statements. Meanwhile, in Qamishli, Syria, large rallies led by the Democratic Union Party protested Turkish attacks on Kurdish-held areas, denouncing the strikes as an occupation. Additionally, an Iraqi militia group claimed responsibility for an alleged drone attack on the US al-Tanf base, though the Pentagon dismissed these reports. In other developments, SDF commander Mazloum Abdi denied SDF involvement in an Ankara attack attributed to the PKK, challenging Turkish airstrikes that have targeted vital Kurdish infrastructure. Lastly, a Times of Israel post by an anonymous Syrian author revealed an unlikely admiration for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or “Abu Yair,” as some Syrians in Idlib celebrated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s death in an Israeli airstrike—a stark shift for those who once viewed Israel solely through an adversarial lens.
In February 2025, US President Donald Trump designated a series of cartels as Specially Designated Global Terrorists and Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), including Tren de Aragua (TdA) and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), among others.
Previously, the US Treasury Department sanctioned MS-13 as a Transnational Criminal Organization under Executive Order 13581. The Trump administration similarly designated Foxtrot, which has been used by Iranian intelligence, under the same authority last month.
«Loin de ne concerner que le peuple palestinien, l’avenir de notre monde se joue en partie importante en Palestine … (car) l’hégémonie occidentale est confrontée à une série de résistances qui menacent la poursuite de son pillage du monde sur lequel est bâti son modèle économique». ~ Saïd Bouamama
Impressionnant par son grand format, par la qualité du papier, de la typographie, du graphisme, cet ouvrage de Saïd Bouamama, fruit d’années de recherches, doté de références exhaustives en plusieurs langues, extrêmement bien écrit et surtout non-idéologique sur l’essentiel, se trouve à être parmi les rares productions actuelles en Europe occidentale qui soient – du point de vue de Mendelssohn du moins – indispensable.