Middle East

On May 27, in the south Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, an Israeli drone strike killed two civilians exiting from the Salah Ghandour Hospital, near the city centre. The strike injured eight other [...]

In April 2024, Columbia University’s President, Minouche Shafik, was invited by the U.S. Congress to participate in a McCarthyite witch-hunt against pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia [...]

Alexander Mercouris of The Duran joined me today for a lively discussion about the extraordinary events of this past Monday. On May 20, Iran announced the death of its President and Foreign [...]

Yesterday, after seven months of Israeli genocide, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, finally announced that he would seek arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime [...]

Today, Iran’s government announced that its President, Ebrahim Raisi, and its Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, had died in a helicopter crash. The crash occurred in northwest [...]

From outside Israel’s Embassy in Athens, I reported yesterday on the violent suppression of anti-genocide protests by Greece’s police. Occupation at the University of Athens On May [...]

As Israeli forces launched a ‘limited’ ground incursion into Rafah, I had the opportunity to speak to former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. Although he once worked with and was [...]

For the past six months, the U.S. government and its Western allies have resorted increasingly to brutal repression to silence critics of Israel’s genocidal regime. At the same time, [...]

Today, a justice of the Quebec Superior Court rejected an application by two pro-Israel students of McGill University for an injunction barring pro-Palestinian groups from protesting peacefully [...]

Today, after Guinea-Bissau’s strong-man acceded to Israel’s request that it withdraw its flag from two of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s vessels, organizers of the Freedom Flotilla [...]