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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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Damascus University Medical Students Documented Glorifying ISIS in Online Discourse
Medical Students at Damascus University Glorify ISIS and Explicitly Call for Its Return as a Tool of Repression and Extermination ocumented communications circulating among medical students at Damascus University have revealed discourse involving the explicit glorification of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and open advocacy for the…
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 al-Tanf, amid conflicting statements from the group regarding an attack on American personnel in Palmyra. ccording to sources, American forces apprehended the head of security studies for HTS's Badiyah sector…
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 victims. MENA Mag is now publishing some of these rarely seen or previously unpublished images for the first time. The current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains like smoldering embers…
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…
