[escalation] US strikes more than 90 Iranian military targets on Kharg Island, CENTCOM says

Reuters  /  March 14, 2026 United ​States forces executed a ‌large-scale precision strike on Kharg Island in Iran on ​Friday night, the ​U.S. Central Command...

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...

Israeli strike in south Lebanon kills 17 medical staff

Heba Nasser Middle East Eye  /  March 14, 2026 Attack on health centre killed doctors, nurses and paramedics. An Israeli strike killed 17 medical staff in a...

How Israel used the war in Gaza to accelerate Jewish settlements in the West...

Isaac Chotiner The New Yorker  /  March 14, 2026 The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way. In the past several years,...

Mind boggling’ corruption: Kushner seeks $5 billion from foreign governments for his firm

Elizabeth Preza AlterNet  /  March 14, 2026 President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is trying to raise more than $5 billion from foreign governments for his...

Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies

William Christou The Guardian  /  March 14, 2026 Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon. Al-Nimiriya – For...

Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf oil reprisals for Kharg would crash the world economy

Juan Cole Informed Comment  /  March 14, 2026 Ann Arbor – President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to destroy Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island...

In the shadow of war, Jewish settler violence against Palestinians intensifies – action needed...

Adam Coogle Human Rights Watch  /  March 13, 2026 While many Israelis are taking shelter from missile and drone attacks, armed settlers in the West Bank...

How Arab regimes bet on genocidal Israel and lost

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  March 13, 2026 Since the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran on 28 February, the Iranian people...

As hell rains down on Iran, Western media turns its head 

Kamin Mohammadi Truthdig  /  March 13, 2026 Every morning, I see images that I have spent my 47 years of exile from Iran dreading; smoke rising...