‘Raising 10 red flags’: is Israel’s army exhausted ?

Simon Speakman Cordall Al-Jazeera  /  March 27, 2026 After years of regional forever wars, Israel’s chief of staff warns the army is on the brink of...

From the rooftops of Tehran

Anonymous New York Review of Books  /  March 27, 2026 For the author’s safety, the translator’s name has also been kept anonymous. We in Iran own our...

Israel’s campaign to sever southern Lebanon in a new ‘buffer zone’

Maya Gebeily, Catherine Cartier, Prasanta Kumar Dutta & Mariano Zafra Reuters  /  March 27, 2026 Israeli airstrikes and ground operations over the last month have largely cut off southern Lebanon...

Saudi Arabia urging US to ramp up Iran attacks, intelligence source confirms

Julian Borger & Aram Roston The Guardian  /  March 27, 2026 Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is said to view US-Israeli war as ‘historic opportunity’ to...

Iran’s black rain is latest grim example of weather in war zones

David Hambling The Guardian  /  March 27, 2026 Strikes on oil facilities burned thousands of tons of stored fuel, producing a pall of toxic smoke. Black rain...

Amid Iran war, Israeli army backs far-right annexation of Palestinian West Bank

Scott Prosterman Informed Comment  /  March 27, 2026 Oakland, Ca. – In the West Bank of Israeli Occupied Palestine, far-far right settlers have formed paramilitary groups...

Ground troops in Iran: an idiotic idea for an idiotic war

Branko Marcetic Jacobin  /  March 27, 2026 Donald Trump is weighing whether to make the Iran War even more of a disaster by sending in ground...

‘My heart is breaking’: Lebanese family grieve daughter killed by Israeli bomb

William Christou & Abbas Abdelkarim The Guardian  /  March 27, 2026 Narjis, one of 121 children killed in Lebanon this month, wanted to be a doctor...

Iraq mourns its dead after worst strike against its army since the start of...

Natalia Sancha El Pais  /  March 27, 2026 The crossfire between the US and Tehran against pro- and anti-Iranian militias on Iraqi soil threatens to escalate...

A bizarre diplomatic showdown tests the Lebanese government’s waning authority

Alex Rowell New Lines Magazine  /  March 27, 2026 What happens if a government orders the expulsion of a foreign state’s ambassador, but the ambassador doesn’t...