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- by Marwa ATürkiye provided naval training to cadets from the Libyan Naval Academy as part of ongoing cooperation between the two countries, the National Turkish Defense Ministry said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. In a post shared on US social media company X, the ministry said naval frigate TCG Orucreis, deployed with the Turkish Maritime Task Group, conducted port-based and at-sea training programs under the coordination of the Joint Training Center Command in the […]
- by MIA senior official from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Tuesday condemned Israel’s raid on the agency’s East Jerusalem compound, calling it a “blatant disregard” of Israel’s obligations as a UN member state, Anadolu reports. Speaking to Anadolu, UNRWA Senior Communications Manager Jonathan Fowler said Israeli police and municipal officials forced their way into the agency’s premises early Monday morning, cutting all communications. “They brought in trucks and forklifts, […]
- by MIIt has been over two years since Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s claim of Ethiopian “natural rights” to the Red Sea. Has Ethiopia eschewed what Tafi Mhaka, in a 14 November 2023 piece, dubbed as Ethiopian imperial ambitions? Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party would counter it never had such ambitions in the first place. They, instead, accuse Egypt, as done recently by Ethiopia’s ambassador to Somalia, Suleiman Dedefo, in an article […]
- by MIFor decades, Gaza has been viewed primarily through the language of hard power: siege, bombardment, occupation, and overwhelming military asymmetry. Yet in the aftermath of mass destruction, another form of power quietly takes centre stage. This is the power that operates through reconstruction, humanitarian aid, and post-war governance. In today’s Gaza, soft power no longer softens conflict. It hardens into an architecture that shapes dependency, legitimacy, and political fate long […]
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- by MIA former Israeli military commander said Tuesday that the majority of hostages were killed in army fire in the northern Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports. “Israeli fire killed most of the hostages (captives) in Jabalia due to intelligence gaps,” Nitzan Alon, a former Israeli negotiator, told the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. Alon said many of the hostages, who arrived in Gaza alive, died in Israeli strikes targeting buildings where they had been held. […]
- by MISyria and Saudi Arabia signed a number of agreements in the oil and gas sectors on Tuesday, according to local media, Anadolu reports. The state-owned Syrian Petroleum Company inked four deals with Saudi companies at the headquarters of the Energy Ministry in the capital Damascus, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). The deals cover “technical support services and the development of oil and gas fields in Syria,” the […]
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- by MIIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has earmarked 2.7 billion shekels (about $843 million) over the next five years to expand illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, in what local media described as a form of “de facto annexation.” The daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday that the funds, designated for building new settlements, opening access roads, strengthening security and formalizing land records, represent an unprecedented allocation. A central component […]
- by MIAn Israeli media investigation has revealed a sharp and unprecedented rise in the number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli custody since National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir took office. According to the Israeli news website Walla, 110 Palestinian “security detainees” died between January 2023 and June 2025, most of them in hospitals after being transferred from prisons and detention facilities. The report noted that the figure is the […]
- by MISudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday it had taken control of the strategic Heglig oilfield in the South Kordofan province, Reuters reported. Heglig, which lies along Sudan’s southern border, houses the main processing facility for South Sudanese oil, which makes up much of the revenue for South Sudan’s government. Government forces and workers at the Heglig oil field withdrew from the area on Sunday to avoid clashes […]
- by MIAround 600 former senior officials from Israel’s security and intelligence services have issued a stark warning to Defence Minister Yisrael Katz, describing the rapid rise in settler violence in the occupied West Bank as a “strategic threat” to Israel’s security. In a letter released on Monday under the banner of the “Commanders for Israel’s Security” movement, the signatories urged Katz to take immediate action to curb what they termed “Jewish […]