Middle Orient

Royal Air Force surveillance flights towards Gaza keep taking place when hostages are released. The Royal Air Force (RAF) has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all five days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards the strip on the other …

Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians. With the allied victory and collapse of the Ottoman empire in world war one, Britain occupied Palestine which it ruled until 1948. This was formalised by the newly created League of …

Speaking to The National in Munich, Iraq’s top diplomat says changing regional dynamics require greater co-ordination between nations Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein expects that a military confrontation with ISIS will become necessary, and that the international community is increasingly recognising the need to act as the extremist group continues …

U.S. President Donald Trump recently called the Gaza Strip a “demolition site,” and said the Palestinians would be evacuated to Jordan and Egypt, where they would be “thrilled” to live. The U.S. would then take possession of Gaza (“We’ll own it’), and would develop it, creating “thousands of jobs,” making …

Jordan has previous experience in dealing with US President Donald Trump, during his first administration, which showed his tendency to liquidate the Palestinian cause, regardless of considering the constants of the Palestinian cause and the principles of US foreign policy towards it. Given the difficult changing reality that the Gaza …

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Sunday expressed the need to maintain foreign troops in Iraq, Syria amid the evolving events in the region and the potential resurgence of the Islamic State (ISIS). Speaking to reporters at the conclusion of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), Barzani stated that Erbil “views …

Ce qui paraît invraisemblable c’est que tous ces experts, politiciens, larbins, scribouilleurs et parlementaires déchirent leur chemise sur les tombes des dizaines de milliers de gazaouis ensevelis sous les décombres par les hordes sionistes-nazis. Ce qui paraît invraisemblable c’est qu’aucun de ces commentateurs stipendiés par les médias mainstream n’ait percé …

Dans le Washington d’aujourd’hui, qui respire l’acrimonie partisane, les démocrates et les républicains sont au moins d’accord sur ce point : Israël a le droit d’exister. Ce droit a été affirmé par le président républicain de la Chambre des représentants, Mike Johnson, et son antagoniste démocrate, le chef de la …

Iran and Russia have sent “positive indications” to the new government in Damascus but there remains an “open wound” over their support for the previous regime, Syria’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Moscow and Tehran provided key military and political support to Bashar Assad after an uprising against the former …

Analysis: Trump’s vision for Gaza bolsters Netanyahu politically, normalises ethnic cleansing, and emboldens Israel to derail the ceasefire and return to war. US President Donald Trump’s remarks on Gaza, in which he has repeatedly voiced plans to “take over” the Palestinian territory, displace its residents to other countries, and turn …