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Preliminary reports suggest that a stabbing operation occurred in the Old City of occupied al-Quds, resulting in the injury of an Israeli settler, while the Palestinian who carried out the attack managed to withdraw

Israeli media: Police are investigating suspicions of criminal offenses by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara

Al Mayadeen's correspondent: Three Palestinians killed in al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas in the northern West Bank, and Israeli forces are withholding their bodies

Al Mayadeen's correspondent: Venezuela announces it will hold parliamentary, legislative and governorship elections on May 25

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Paris: French authorities have banned sit-ins in Paris demanding the release of activist Georges Abdallah

Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson Abu Obeida: The captives were alive before their places of detention were deliberately bombed by the [Israeli] occupation's aircraft

Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson Abu Obeida: The bodies of the Bibas family and the body of captive Oded Lifshitz will be handed over tomorrow

Al Mayadeen's sources: The second front stresses adherence to the national borders of the Syrian state while preserving the rights of the Kurdish component

Al Mayadeen's sources: There are two Kurdish fronts in SDF, one of which wants the armed confrontation to continue until it reaches "Syrian Kurdistan"

Al Mayadeen's sources: There are signs of disagreements between two wings of the Kurdish component in the SDF

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

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

As the escalations across the West Bank increase and Netanyahu continues to flout the ceasefire with Hezbollah in South Lebanon, forcing the...

Samuel Geddes
19 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

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

There's now talk of Trump making a grand state visit to the UK, but perhaps Mr. Starmer should consider cashing in his chips from this brief transatlantic bromance while their stock is still high. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab el-Hajj)

News from Nowhere: Trumped Again

Alex Roberts
3 Feb 2025

Settlements not only economically strangulate the Palestinian economy, but are now being enabled politically to eliminate Palestinians as Trump panders to the inbuilt ethos of Zionist supremacy. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab el-Hajj)

Trump greenlights murder, plundering and genocide with his settlement move

Hamzah Rifaat
2 Feb 2025

With anti-Palestinian hatred having become one of the most visible expressions of Islamophobia since "Israel" began the war on Gaza, Abunimah’s arrest should come as no surprise. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab El-Hajj)

Ali Abunimah’s arrest is a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by Palestine advocacy

Timo Al-Farooq
1 Feb 2025