Category: 1. Palestine

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

A federal judge has ordered the release of Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, held for over three months in ICE custody over his pro-Palestine activism.

Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old Columbia University graduate and prominent pro-Palestinian activist, was released from US immigration detention on Friday, more than three months after plainclothes ICE…

Sitting in northern Europe, I shouldn’t care about the New York mayoral race.

Yet, despite all that is happening in the world, the contentious Democratic primary for the 2025 New York City mayoral election has found its way into conversations around me – and onto my social media feed.

This attention isn’t just another example of the New York-centric worldview famously skewered in Saul Steinberg’s 1976 New Yorker cover, View of the World from 9th Avenue. A genuine political struggle…

Trump has repeatedly said he averted a nuclear war, saved millions of lives – and grumbled that he got no credit for it.

Pakistan says it would recommend United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, an accolade that he has said he craves.

In May, a surprise announcement by Trump of a ceasefire brought an abrupt end to a four-day conflict between nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan.

Trump has since repeatedly said that he averted a nuclear war, saved millions of lives…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

As Israeli strikes hit nuclear sites in Tehran and Isfahan, Iran launches a sweeping crackdown on alleged Mossad-linked operatives, deepening the most direct conflict between the two countries in decades.

Explosions were heard in Tehran on Saturday following Israeli strikes, while Iranian media reported that an Israeli attack on a nuclear facility in Isfahan province was successfully repelled. Explosions were…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Iranian drone and missile strikes triggered fires, sirens, and building collapses across central and southern Israel, with multiple impact sites reported amid ongoing interception efforts.

Rescue teams are searching for individuals trapped beneath the rubble of a residential building in Beit She’an, following a drone strike attributed to…

Gilan, Iran – The prospect of war seemed to creep nearer to reality with each passing day, but perhaps few of the millions who have been forced to abandon their homes across Iran in the past week – including myself – could have known this new reality would impose itself so harshly or abruptly.

The first explosions jolted people awake in Tehran shortly after 3am on June 13, when a large number of Israeli fighter jets and drones attacked dozens of areas across the country, and…

Islamabad (Quds News Network)- Pakistan has officially nominated US President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his role in easing tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi earlier this year.

In a statement released Friday, the office of Pakistan’s Prime Minister praised Trump’s intervention during the May 2025 military standoff with India. The statement said Trump’s diplomacy helped prevent a “wider conflict between two nuclear-armed states” that could…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Trump is facing mounting pressure from both MAGA allies and GOP hawks as he delays a decision on military action against Iran, The Washington Post reported.

US President Donald Trump is facing mounting pressure over his stance on Iran, as competing voices within his inner circle, party, and foreign policy sphere push him toward drastically different paths, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

In the…

Here are the key events on day 1,213 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Saturday, June 21:

Fighting

• Drones and missiles launched by Russia overnight have damaged energy infrastructure in central Ukraine’s Kremenchuk district in Poltava, said local military authorities.
• One person was injured in the attack, according to Volodymyr Kohut, the region’s military governor, who did not provide further details on the extent of the damage.
• Russia had targeted the…