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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.…
When Humor Masks Hate: Syrian Students’ Messages Reveal Systematic Dehumanization
The messages, which have been verified and documented by human rights monitors, demonstrate a calculated pattern of reducing vulnerable populations…
US Arrests HTS Security Chief After Attack on American Troops in Syria
US forces have detained a senior security official from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and transferred him to their base at…
Unseen Faces of a War: The Enduring Scars of Bosnia’s Children
The Bosnian War, ignited by Serbian expansionism and modeled after historical European genocides, saw children as its first and final…
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Trump’s Venezuela Intervention Raises Questions of Legality and Colonial Oil Grab
In a dramatic escalation that has drawn widespread international condemnation, President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following a large-scale US military strike on Caracas. The operation, which involved extracting a sitting head of state from his own country, has raised fundamental questions about international law,…
Global Intelligence Services Implicated in Iran’s Recent Unrest
Iranian security and intelligence sources have disclosed details regarding what they describe as coordinated foreign intelligence operations aimed at amplifying recent civil disturbances across Iran. According to statements from Iranian officials and security-linked media outlets, intelligence services from numerous countries have been monitoring and allegedly intervening in Iran's internal affairs.…
Trump’s Hollow Victory in Venezuela
Months of military posturing, judicial accusations, oil tanker seizures, and psychological operations by the United States against Venezuela ultimately culminated in a military assault and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. However, the reaction from the power structure in Caracas has demonstrated that contrary to Trump's narrative, neither surrender nor…
Porcine Existence: The Decay of Human Dignity in the Age of Legitimized Barbarism
When the BBC proudly broadcasts the "capture" of Venezuela's legitimate president as breaking news, we witness more than journalistic bias—we observe the linguistic machinery of empire converting kidnapping into law enforcement, terrorism into justice, and barbarism into civilization. This Orwellian inversion of language and morality defines our era's "porcine existence":…
The Sykes-Picot Agreement: A Century of Division
How a secret colonial treaty engineered the fragmentation of the Middle East and continues to shape regional conflicts today he Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 stands as one of the most consequential secret treaties in modern history, fundamentally reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. Named after British diplomat Mark…
Syria: Deadly Crackdown on Alawite Protests Demanding Federalism
HTS security forces kill at least three as thousands demonstrate across coastal and central regions following mosque attack in Homs ecember 28, 2025 — Thousands of Alawites took to the streets across Syria's coastal and central regions on Saturday, demanding federalism and self-governance in response to escalating violence against their…
Terror Attack on Homs Mosque Claims Nine Lives, Including 10-Year-Old Child
Explosion at Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib Mosque marks latest assault on Syria's religious minorities under Turkish-backed militant rule OMS, SYRIA — A terrorist bombing at the Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib Mosque in Wadi al-Dhahab, Homs, killed nine civilians and wounded at least 15 others on December 26, 2025,…
Saudi Arabia Issues Ultimatum to UAE Over Yemen Conflict
In an unprecedented escalation of tensions between former allies, Saudi Arabia has demanded that the United Arab Emirates withdraw all military forces from Yemen within 24 hours, marking a dramatic rupture in the coalition that has waged war in Yemen since 2015. The crisis emerged following violent clashes between Saudi-backed…
Declassified 2008 Documents Expose Bush-Putin Talks on Iran Nuclear Program
Declassified Documents Reveal 2008 Bush-Putin Discussions on Iran's Nuclear Program: Another Chapter in Extraregional Interference ashington/Moscow – Recently declassified U.S. documents from 2008 have exposed detailed conversations between then-President George W. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding Iran's nuclear program, offering new evidence of…
When Humor Masks Hate: Syrian Students’ Messages Reveal Systematic Dehumanization
The messages, which have been verified and documented by human rights monitors, demonstrate a calculated pattern of reducing vulnerable populations to disposable commodities. ocumented communications among medical students at the University of Damascus have revealed disturbing content in which the forced displacement of Druze civilians was discussed, with participants proposing…
