TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - The diplomatic channel between Tehran and Washington, fragile at the best of times, has devolved into a vortex of accusation, contradiction, and what Iranian officials are calling…
JERUSALEM: Israeli Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound Under Heavy Police Protection.
JERUSALEM — Under a pale morning sky in occupied East Jerusalem, a column of Israeli settlers filed through the Mughrabi Gate on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, their path cleared and…
WEST BANK: FEAR BECAME UNBEARABLE: How Sexual Violence Is Being Weaponised To Empty The West Bank.
OCCUPIED WEST BANK — For generations, Palestinian families in the rugged hills of the Jordan Valley and South Hebron have endured the grinding, everyday realities of military occupation: the checkpoints,…
IRAN: The IRGC Seizes Two Israeli Ships In The Strait Of Hormuz Signal Escalating Maritime Confrontation Amid Fragile US-Iran Ceasefire.
TEHRAN, IRAN - Tensions in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors have sharply escalated after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy seized two commercial vessels and reportedly…
LEBANON: Catholic Leadership Council Condemns Israeli Soldier’s Desecration Of Jesus Statue In Lebanon.
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — On a quiet Saturday afternoon in Debel, a Christian village nestled among the hills of southern Lebanon just kilometres from the Israeli border, an Israeli soldier raised a…
IRAN: The Touska Incident: Anatomy Of A Maritime Confrontation That Brought US–Iran To The Brink.
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN/ISLAMABAD — On the afternoon of Sunday, April 19, 2026, the Iranian-flagged container vessel Touska was steaming through the northern Arabian Sea toward the port of Bandar Abbas.
ISRAEL-SYRIA:The Golan Gambit: How Israel Is Cementing A Permanent Occupation, And Daring The World To Object.
KATZRIN, OCCUPIED SYRIAN GOLAN — On a crisp morning in mid-April 2026, Yehuda Dua, head of the Katzrin Local Council, stood before a gathering of Israeli officials and local residents…
WEST BANK: A Generation Criminalised – 350 Palestinian Students Imprisoned As Legal Crackdown Deepens.
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK, April 16, 2026 — On the eve of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education issued a stark declaration: approximately 350 students are…
RUSSIA: Russia, Iran, And The Fracturing Nuclear Order: Lavrov’s Doctrine And The Deepening Global Divide.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has once again placed Moscow at the centre of a rapidly escalating geopolitical confrontation, forcefully defending Iran’s “inalienable right” to uranium enrichment while…
PAKISTAN: The Islamabad Mirage: Inside The High-Stakes US-Iran Mediation That Barely Averts World War.
ISLAMABAD, TEHRAN - In the opulent corridors of Islamabad’s Serena Hotel, shielded from the cacophony of a world teetering on the edge, history was being written, or rather, painstakingly drafted…
