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Al Mayadeen correspondent: An Israeli raid on the town of Qusaya in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon, on the border with Syria.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent: The town of Ainatha in South Lebanon is preparing to bid farewell shortly to 35 of its youths who were martyred on the path to al-Quds in a mass funeral

Iran's Tasnim News Agency: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Iran next Tuesday to discuss the Syrian file

Al Mayadeen's correspondent: The Shadow Units vehicles transporting the Israeli prisoners have arrived at the handover location in Rafah

Al Mayadeen's correspondent: The process of handing over the Israeli captives is taking place today for the first time in the city of Rafah, just a stone's throw away from the Israeli army

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem: The reconstruction of Gaza must be carried out through national consensus, and we will not allow any external force to interfere in this matter

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem: The [Israeli] occupation has not delivered the lists of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for release today

US Secretary of State: We will present a draft resolution on settling the conflict in Ukraine to the UN General Assembly on February 24

Occupied Palestine: Prisoners' Media Office: 445 prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were arrested after October 7, 2023 will be released Today.

Occupied Palestine: Prisoners' Media Office: 50 prisoners sentenced to life will be released today as part of the first phase of the exchange deal with the Israeli occupation.

Their beef with Dattani? His proximity to Palestine advocacy, for which he is accused of being an antisemite, an “Islamic extremist” (Levant) and a supporter of terrorism. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Ali al-Hadi Shmeis)

Canada’s former human rights chief is pushing back against accusations of antisemitism

Timo Al-Farooq
21 Feb 2025

If Gazans can be allowed to return to homes which no longer exist in the northern Strip, why should returning to the sites of their own, or their elders’ original displacement be an impossibility? (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)

Refugees’ return to northern Gaza sets blueprint for return to '48 territories

Samuel Geddes
19 Feb 2025

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the revolutionary who fought for the oppressed

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the revolutionary who fought for the oppressed

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is a revolutionary who, until his last breath, fought to liberate the oppressed who fought for freedom, for justice, and...

Fra Hughes
Today

In Memory of Sayyed Nasrallah: A Mountain of Resistance

In Memory of Sayyed Nasrallah: A Mountain of Resistance

Hanna Eid
21 Feb 2025

If a resistance front opens inside Jordan, it could be the beginning of the end for the Zionist regime. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Ali Al-Hadi Shmeis)

With US Or Against US? America’s ultimatum to Arab leaders

Robert Inlakesh
18 Feb 2025

News from Nowhere: The New Europeans

News from Nowhere: The New Europeans

Alex Roberts
17 Feb 2025

Geopolitical competition and strategic interests in Gaza

Geopolitical competition and strategic interests in Gaza

Ashkan Mombeini
14 Feb 2025

What these think tanks desire from Trump’s administration is for it to adopt a Henry Kissinger-esque view of America first policy towards West Asia. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)

Neocon think tanks persuading Trump to stomp down on West Asia

Hassan Fakih
13 Feb 2025

Imperialism exists, and it will continue to generate pain and death everywhere, to destroy the environment, to wage wars, and to sow poverty everywhere. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)

Trump and his distant predecessor

Atilio A. Boron
12 Feb 2025

Trump’s new Middle East Envoy, Ortagus, one-upped Rice in her statements hailing the Israeli war and siege on Lebanon from the Lebanese Presidential palace in Baabda. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)

What dirty tricks will the US resort to as its patience – and ceasefire time – runs out in Lebanon?

Julia Kassem
9 Feb 2025

Merz's unprecedented move to join forces with the AfD can only be seen as being meant to desensitise voters to the first post-WWII far-right participation in government. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab El-Hajj)

Germany and the antifascist firewall that never was

Timo Al-Farooq
7 Feb 2025

How Netanyahu continues to pursue 'redrawing the map'

How Netanyahu continues to pursue 'redrawing the map'

Robert Inlakesh
5 Feb 2025