Désarmement des factions irakiennes : Un Niet sur toute la ligne

Plusieurs factions irakiennes ont affirmé leur rejet de toute discussion concernant le monopole des armes avant l’obtention de la pleine souveraineté et le retrait de toutes les forces étrangères d’Irak. Elles ont souligné que la position de la Résistance islamique en Irak demeure ferme quant à son refus de rendre les armes et sa détermination à ne pas y renoncer.

HumAngle2025RoundUp: HumAngle’s Top 10 Atypical Stories in 2025

  1. The Making and Unmaking of Abubakar Shekau

Abubakar Shekau, a founding leader of the Boko Haram terror group, killed himself with a suicide vest four years ago at his base in Sambisa, during an attack by ISWAP, an offshoot of his group. Through archived materials and interviews with over ten individuals, including former associates, friends, bodyguards, and captives of Shekau, HumAngle’s Editor-in-Chief, Ahmad Salkida, penned what is arguably the most in-depth exposé into the life of the terror leader.

Shin Bet detains Russian foreign worker for spying for Iran, taking photos of infrastructure

Vitaly Zvyagnitsev, a 30-year-old Russian citizen who arrived in Israel with a foreign worker permit, was arrested in early December 2025 on suspicion of maintaining contact with Iranian operatives.

A Russian citizen was arrested for sending pictures of ports, ships, and infrastructure in Israel to Iranian intelligence elements, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and MALMAB (Director of Security of the Defense Establishment) announced on Friday.

‘Openly announcing apartheid’: Israel advances East Jerusalem settlement plan

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says move aimed at ‘burying’ idea of Palestinian state

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has advanced plans to build a settlement in the E1 area surrounding East Jerusalem and derail the creation of a Palestinian state.

The minister said on Thursday he would approve tenders for more than 3,000 housing units, effectively splitting the occupied West Bank in two.

Settlement expansion in occupied West Bank at highest since 2017, UN report says

The expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is at its highest level since at least 2017, when the UN began tracking the data.

In 2025, “plans for nearly 47,390 housing units were advanced, approved, or tendered, compared with some 26,170 in 2024″, said the report, according to a report by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, seen by AFP.

Israel’s security cabinet approves 19 more settlements in occupied West Bank

Israel’s security cabinet has approved 19 more settlements in the occupied West Bank, bringing the number granted permission the past three years to 69.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler himself, revealed the latest proposal had been passed after pushing it through the cabinet. Mr Smotrich openly says the new settlements will prevent a Palestinian state from establishing itself, something critics also decry. The 19 include two from which Israel withdrew in 2005.

The Great Betrayal: The Colonisation of Bharat by India

It is a long, tongue-twister of a name for a government scheme – ‘Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin)’. It is even more torturous to read if you are not a Hindi speaker.

This is the name of the new scheme, which will replace the two decade old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MNREGA. Claimed to be an improvement over its predecessor, it is in fact a calculated dilution of the most critical lifeline for India’s rural poor