by Mohammad Shamandafar* (from Amman)
“This year Ramadan meant only sadness and shame.” A few days before the end of Eid al Fitr, which concludes the most important holiday for Muslims, R. is disappointed and angry. “Rather than spending on...
by Alice Pistolesi
“We are facing a geyser, the area is boiling and we can only hope that the worst will not happen.” This is how Alberto Bradanini, a former diplomat, summarizes the current situation in the Middle East; among...
By Jonathan Freedland * - The Guardian, OtherNews
Six months after the attacks of 7 October, and it’s time to count again the losses. They begin with the dead, with the 1,200 Israelis killed on that day and the estimated...
by Kateryna Mishchenko
On April 8, Italian police arrested a citizen of Tajikistan at Fiumicino Airport, a suburb of Rome, home to Italy’s largest international airport. He arrived in the Italian capital from Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The Tajikistan native...
Qatar’s broadcast Al Jazeera has condemned the new Israeli law that could block its journalistic activities in Israel, saying the “lies” spread by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endanger the safety of the network’s journalists around the world. “The Israeli...
by Anna Violante
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday 25 March calling for an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and the “urgent need to increase the flow...
by Anna Violante
“If we want peace, we must prepare for war,” wrote European Council President Charles Michel in his press release of 19 March, referring to the need to increase European military aid to Ukraine, and he soon outlined...
by Ambra Visentin
Over the past five years, European countries have almost doubled their arms imports and their dependence on US suppliers is at an all-time high. At the same time, the volume of arms transfers in the world has...
by Antonio Michele Storto
“We will wipe out Terroristan”: The long-awaited announcement has been circulating for weeks, and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has officially pledged to “permanently eliminate” the long-standing threat posed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrillas....
by Luciano Bertozzi
“I’m trying to influence Israeli society by refusing to take part in the occupation and the massacre that is going on in Gaza. I mean that it is not in my name. I am expressing my solidarity...
