The Board of Peace and funding for Gaza reconstruction: on whose account ?

Zaha Hassan & Charles H. Johnson Carnegie Endowment  /  March 16, 2026 Stakeholders must demand major restructuring of the Board of Peace and robust oversight and...

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank

Emma Graham-Harrison & Sufian Taha The Guardian  /  March 15, 2026 Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned...

Neocon nightmare: Americans flee Iraq as US embassy is hit and oil ports are...

Juan Cole Informed Comment  /  March 15, 2026 Ann Arbor – On Saturday the US Embassy in Baghdad was hit by a missile. Video shows black...

UK complicit in desecration of international law in Gaza, says Corbyn-led tribunal [plus Corbyn...

Patrick Wintour The Guardian  /  March 15, 2026 Unofficial body co-chaired by ex-Labour leader says Britain failed to meet its duty to seek to prevent a...

Why Donald Trump is losing the war at home

David Smith The Conversation  /  March 15, 2026 No US president in living memory has gone to war with less public support than Donald Trump has...

Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response

Hannah Ellis-Petersen The Guardian  /  March 15, 2026 UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route. Dubai...

Iran wants ‘serious review’ of Gulf ties, denies role in Saudi oil attacks 

Timour Azhari Reuters  /  March 15, 2026 RIYADH – Iran's relations with Gulf states will require a "serious review" in light of the U.S.-Israeli war on...

Lebanon’s existential war with Israel is being fought from within

Mayssoun Sukarieh Mondoweiss  /  March 14, 2026 As Israel plans on occupying southern Lebanon and replicating its Gaza onslaught, Lebanese society remains deeply divided. Israel is...

Longing for my Tehran

Orly Noy The New York Review of Books  /  March 14, 2026 On the Israeli news, I watch as the country whose citizenship I hold devastates...

Iran: of fire and rain

Amir Ahmadi Arian The New York Review of Books  /  March 14, 2026 It was sometime in the afternoon, checking my phone for news from home,...