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January 19, 2026

Security case shakes Israel with night arrests and highly secret investigation

Tension hit several Haredi-majority cities in Israel on Sunday night following a series of arrests carried out by special forces. Young men and religious school students were detained on...

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January 19, 2026

How to protest correctly: Notes from Iran, warnings from Pakistan

The West is very proud of its eyesight. Satellites blink. Algorithms scrape. Journalists retweet. Intelligence agencies inhale metadata like oxygen. We are assured—ritually — that nothing escapes the gaze....

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January 19, 2026

Syria opens investigation into reports of massacres by SDF in Hasakah

Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday evening that it has opened investigations to verify reports of mass killing in Hasakah province in the north-east, which is under the control...

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January 19, 2026

UNRWA in Lebanon removes Palestine from a geography textbook, claiming to promote “critical thinking”

The content of a sixth-grade geography textbook used in UNRWA schools in Lebanon was discovered late, despite teaching having started in October 2025. In this controversial textbook, UNRWA removed...

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January 19, 2026

Tehran falters while Riyadh rewrites regional stability

The Middle East is once again speaking in the language of pressure, grief and unfinished power. Iran’s streets, its nuclear sites and its diplomacy have all fractured at the...

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January 19, 2026

Tony Blair distances himself from $1bn fee for Trump-led Peace Board membership

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has distanced himself from a proposal that would require countries to pay a $1 billion fee to obtain permanent membership of a peace...

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January 19, 2026

Epstein: When the life of an asset becomes expendable (Part 3)

This is the third and final article in a series examining Jeffery Epstein’s impunity and eventual demise. In the first, I argued that Epstein was not a rogue predator,...

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January 19, 2026

Saudi Arabia welcomes ceasefire agreement and SDF integration into Syrian state

Saudi Arabia has issued a statement welcoming the ceasefire agreement and the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with all their civilian and military institutions, into the Syrian...

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January 19, 2026

The American paradox: A nation simultaneously ascending and descending

The United States is a paradox that defies the typical categories of power analysis. Is the United States an empire on the brink of decline, or is it still...

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January 18, 2026

Attack on supreme leader would be declaration of war against Iranian nation: President

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that any attack targeting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would amount to a declaration of war against Iran, Anadolu reports. “An attack...

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