Iran is quietly turning Hormuz into a political checkpoint
Iran is no longer using the Strait of Hormuz only as a crisis weapon. Tehran is trying to turn the waterway into a lasting source of political and economic...
May 27, 2026
Iran is no longer using the Strait of Hormuz only as a crisis weapon. Tehran is trying to turn the waterway into a lasting source of political and economic...
May 27, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Statistics said on Tuesday that the total number of pilgrims during the 1447 AH Hajj season reached 1,707,301. The authority said 1,546,655 pilgrims arrived...
May 27, 2026
Iran’s Tasnim news agency on Tuesday reported that Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf discussed in Qatar how Iran could obtain $12 billion as a first step in an...
May 27, 2026
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we discuss Mouin Rabbani’s Gaza Apocalypse, a real-time account of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the decades of policy, international complicity and...
May 27, 2026
Family sources in the Gaza Strip said Mohammed Ali Ouda, known as Abu Omar and described as the new commander of Hamas’ armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed along...
May 27, 2026
A limited number of Palestinians performed on Wednesday Eid al-Adha prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, amid tight Israeli restrictions. The Israeli army...
May 27, 2026
Tabriz International Airport in northwestern Iran is set to reopen on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the country’s Civil Aviation Organization announced, Anadolu reports. “Tabriz Airport, which was attacked during the recent...
May 27, 2026
According to the Israeli occupation, the target of the assassination was Mohammed Awda, reportedly part of the new leadership within the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of...
May 27, 2026
The courtyards surrounding Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday – the first day of the four-day Eid al-Adha holiday – were packed with Muslim worshipers performing Eid prayers, Anadolu reports....
May 27, 2026
At least 31 people were killed and 40 injured in Israeli airstrikes Tuesday in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, Anadolu reports. The strikes targeted the towns of...
