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Young Christian Man Shot Dead in Targeted Attack in Mahardah, Syria
MAHARDAH, HAMA COUNTRYSIDE, SYRIA – A 21-year-old man was shot and killed in a targeted attack in Mahardah city, Hama countryside, on January 31, 2026, in what appears to be a premeditated assassination linked to threats he had been receiving for two years. Elie Simon Elias Najjar Takla was killed by masked assailants who had been waiting for the vehicle…
Will the War Everyone Is Talking About Actually Begin?
The simultaneous use of military threats, ambiguous messaging, and a war of narratives suggests that the United States is neither on the brink of war with Iran nor ready for an agreement. Washington is deliberately keeping the region in a state of suspension in order to keep its options open without paying the political cost of making a definitive decision.…
Why Palestinians Carried Out the October 7 Operation
Maryam Yousefi Sadr Analyzes the Gaza Siege (Palestine), White Phosphorus Allegations, and International War Crimes Claims
Why Is Tel Aviv Pursuing the Annulment of the Oslo Accords?
Israel's push to formally revoke the 1993 Oslo Agreement signals not a new policy, but the open acknowledgment of one…
Why Do Warships Arrive with Smiles?
The deployment of warships is less a prelude to conflict and more a bargaining tool to impose maximum demands at…
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Inside the MEK’s Cult of Control
A new report sheds light on a disturbing pattern of “destructive mind control” within the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK/PMOI) — an exiled opposition group long accused of cult-like behavior and internal coercion. Drawing on the testimony of former member Ehsan Bidi, the findings reveal systematic psychological manipulation, family…
On The Historical Legacy of Pan-Turkism
On November 22, 2025, the Organization of Turkic States held the first meeting of Supreme Audit Institutions, opening another page in cooperation between the countries of the Pacific Region. If you open the official website of this structure, you will notice a certain vagueness of goals. Various initiatives are veiled by a…
Iryna, Charlie Kirk, And the Rivers of Blood
In 1968, a symbolic date marking the decline of our civilization, British MP Enoch Powell gave a speech that cost him his political career. It is known as the “rivers of blood” speech, as he prophesied that mass immigration would lead to violent clashes. Here we are: the rivers are…
Beauty Has Become Fashionable Ugliness
We live in ugliness and brutality. Beauty has become fashionable ugliness. The phrase is by Jean Cau, written half a century ago at the dawn of degradation in a brilliant essay that is misunderstood despite (or because of) its value, The Stables of the West. Cau, author of The Knight,…
Stupid Artificial Intelligence?
Millions of words have already been written about the digital technological revolution and the phenomenon of Artificial Intelligence. Many more will be written, including those on the growing development of so-called LLMs, large language models used by Generative Artificial Intelligence (AGI), trained on huge amounts of textual data to understand,…
Climate Variability and the Dawn of Agriculture: New Insights from the Zagros Mountains
A Stalagmite Record Reveals How Environmental Instability Shaped Early Neolithic Communities in the Fertile Crescent The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region stretching from the Nile Valley through the Levant to Mesopotamia, holds a unique place in human history as the birthplace of agriculture and civilization. Yet despite its significance, scientists…
From Terrorist to Partner: The Dangerous Rehabilitation of HTS
In a world where counter-terrorism cooperation is essential to international security, the recent rehabilitation of designated terrorist leaders by Western powers reveals a troubling pattern. This analysis examines how the removal of Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammed al-Jolani) from terrorist sanctions lists exemplifies a dangerous instrumentalization of terrorism for geopolitical ends—a…