Families’ committee accuses Palestinian Authority forces of torture in Al-Junaid prison

Middle East Monitor  /  May 8, 2026 A committee representing families of detainees in the occupied West Bank has accused Palestinian Authority security forces of...

Military force has got the US nowhere with Iran – here is what a...

Christopher S Chivvis The Guardian  /  May 8, 2026 Making a deal means the US finding a position that doesn’t threaten the Iranian regime’s survival. The...

US-Iran ceasefire under threat after exchange of strikes in Strait of Hormuz

Nadeem Badshah & Lauren Gambino The Guardian  /  May 8, 2026 Donald Trump says ceasefire remains in place despite strikes, with Iranian TV saying situation is...

Telling the truth about Iran is more dangerous than ever

Maryam Foumani The Guardian  /   May 8, 2026 After months of protest, crackdown and war, on-the-ground reporting is more impossible than it has ever been. These...

Several Venice Biennale pavilions shut in protest over inclusion of Israel

Lanre Bakare The Guardian  /  May 8, 2026 About a dozen pavilions affected, while some artists backed strike by adding Palestine references to their work. Venice –...

Israel’s destructive actions in Lebanon are normalising war without rules

Amra Lee The Conversation  /  May 8, 2026 In late April, Amal Khalil, a 43-year-old Lebanese journalist, was killed in a double-tap Israeli strike in southern...

Trump knows he lost the Iran war, and is now desperate to find a...

Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss  /  May 8, 2026 Recent U.S. moves indicate that Donald Trump has finally recognized the disastrous mistake he made by listening to Benjamin...

Rodent infestation caused by Israel’s destruction of Gaza is now creating a public health...

Tareq S. Hajjaj Mondoweiss  /  May 8, 2026 More than 70,000 infections have been recorded in Gaza this year, as rats bite children as they sleep...

Lebanon says farmland area roughly size of 78,000 football fields destroyed in Israeli offensive

Middle East Monitor  /  May 8, 2026 Lebanon’s Agriculture Ministry said Friday that Israel’s ongoing offensive has damaged more than 56,000 hectares of farmland —...

Trump’s way of war

Mel Gurtov CounterPunch  /  May 8, 2026 Stretching presidential power Donald Trump has made waging war more centered than ever before on presidential prerogative. The same president...