Category: 1. Palestine

Residential buildings among structures targeted in paramilitary attack on city of el-Fasher, activists say.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have again attacked el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region of Sudan, killing more than 30 people, an activist group has said.

The attack by the RSF and allied militias is the latest deadly offensive on the area, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the war-torn region.

The Resistance Committees in el-Fasher said…

Salfit (Quds News Network)- Israeli soldiers stormed a home in the town of Kafr Al-Dik, west of Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank, before dawn on Monday. They came looking for former detainee Ahmed Abdul Karim Al-Dik.

But when they couldn’t find him, they took his 12-year-old son, also named Ahmed. The boy was born while his father was held in Israeli jails.

Israeli oldiers blindfolded and handcuffed the young child. They then took a photo of him in that condition and sent…

By Junaid S. Ahmad

Across campuses, mosques, and social platforms, a new generation is asking dangerous questions: Why must our foreign policy serve imperial interests? Why is our media allergic to speaking the truth about the occupation?

The generals in Islamabad—ever resplendent in starched uniforms and an exaggerated sense of self-importance—are once again casting furtive glances toward Tel Aviv. Their…

“Israel has enjoyed impunity in its conduct toward Palestinian people for over seven decades, and we believe that the time has come for this to stop.”

The failure to stop Israel’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip has exposed the shortcomings of international legal mechanisms and renewed urgent calls to reform the United Nations, the former South African foreign minister Naledi Pandor…

Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke and irreversible heart failure, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli has said in a death certificate.

The certificate released on Monday for the 88-year-old pontiff said the pope had fallen into a coma before his death earlier in the day.

Pope Francis had suffered various ailments during his 12-year papacy, with severe complications in recent weeks following a bout of double pneumonia for which he spent 38 days at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.

The Vatican also…

The United States military is ramping up its presence in Japan, Guam and Hawaii as tensions with China grow over Taiwan. A new documentary reveals how this buildup is affecting local communities. In a region that is also a staging ground for potential conflict, how are some residents pushing back?