[Lebanon] Digging up the dead

Selma Dabbagh London Review of Books  /  March 27, 2026 More than a million people have been displaced by Israel’s invasion and bombardment of Lebanon, many...

Blink and miss: Trump’s tactic of threats first and U-turn later is proving stale...

Eduardo Porter The Guardian  /  March 27, 2026 President’s move, dubbed Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to have soured as he loses hold on situation in...

Does the tail wag the dog ? – how both sides are missing the...

Jonathan Cook jonathancook.substack.com  /  March 27, 2026 Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures...

‘Nothing is normal’: diary of Iranian president’s son reflects hopes and fears of ordinary...

Patrick Wintour The Guardian  /  March 27, 2026 Yousef Pezeshkian’s daily social media posts reveal no state secrets, but expose questions dominating Iranian society. An Iranian keeping...

Israeli opposition leader [Yair Lapid] rails against ‘multi-front war without strategy’

AJ Staff Al-Jazeera  /  March 27, 2026 Yair Lapid says military ‘is stretched to the limit and beyond’ as Israeli forces wage attacks on Iran and...

Trump delays threatened ‘energy plant destruction’ [a war crime] in Iran until April 6

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams  /  March 26, 2026 The US president faces pressure to fully retract his “deeply irresponsible threats of acts that would unleash catastrophic...

Netanyahu claims that victory over Iran would bring peace to Israel – he should...

Dahlia Scheindlin The Guardian  /  March 26, 2026 As Israelis grow weary of sheltering from missile attacks, their prime minister is using the war to distract...

Iran was always going to close the Strait of Hormuz

Jonathan Este The Conversation  /  March 26, 2026 The five-day deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz handed to Iran by Donald Trump on Monday expires...

Fears of imminent ground invasion surge as Trump weighs ‘final blow’ options against Iran

Jake Johnson Common Dreams  /  March 26, 2026 “Looking to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a similar invasion of Iran, given its population size, would...

Trump says Iran asked him to be next Supreme Leader [sic] but he refused

TNA Staff The New Arab  /  March 26, 2026 Donald Trump has made a series of ludicrous claims during the Iran war, but this may be...