The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most critical geopolitical chokepoints. Nearly one-fifth of global oil trade, about 21 million barrels, passes through per day.

Together with other prominent Palestinian prisoners, Khandakji came to represent a combative cultural and intellectual front, forging an anti-colonial counter-knowledge from within the prisons that transcended its walls.

The United Arab Emirates has recently suffered its first clear defeat in a direct power contest with Saudi Arabia in eastern Yemen.

These assaults form part of a broader deterioration in detention conditions, which prisoners say continue to worsen.

Few comprehensive studies have been conducted of the humanitarian toll that sanctions, especially those vastly strengthened through the US-imposed Caesar Act, have taken on the Syrian people amid an already devastating war.

Over 10,000 soldiers are currently receiving mental health treatment, while 3,769 have been officially recognized as suffering from PTSD.

Too late and not good enough is likely the way Macron’s diplomacy will be remembered, should it ever be remembered, regarding the urgency of the situation in Gaza confronted with the first genocide of the 21st century.

Collapsing infrastructure, shortages of medicine and supplies, dwindling qualified staff, and the closure of medical facilities are pushing Syria’s healthcare system to the brink.

The rising execution rate is linked to the regime’s effort to suppress dissent ahead of full normalization with Israel.

US envoy Thomas Barrack stated that “Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is the perfect place. We have to bolster it. We have to enhance it. We have to give it resources.”