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Israel's war on Gaza

6 months ago

Hamas, Egypt and Qatar pushing for Marwan Barghouti's release in ceasefire deal

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Live - Live: Full Israeli cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire deal to begin Sunday

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'Why aren't you in the Hague?' Blinken's final press briefing descends into chaos

20 hours ago

Trump owns the Gaza ceasefire. But how will he impose it?

8 hours ago

'Bye Genocide Joe': Social media reflects on Biden's legacy on Gaza

9 hours ago

Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resilience prevails in face of Israeli genocidal war

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Israel cannot ignore the Palestinian cause after failing to quash it by force

15 hours ago

Another potential Trump nominee wants US out of Middle East

8 hours ago

Dozens of Columbia University law faculty demand inquiry into professor's 'termination'

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Sudanese attacked in South Sudan after Wad Madani violence

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Israel-Gaza ceasefire: Full text of agreement

2 days ago

Netanyahu 'vows to continue Gaza war' to secure support for ceasefire

14 hours ago

US sanctions on Burhan spark Sudanese condemnation of UAE and Biden

13 hours ago

HTS raids and forced disappearances fuel fear in Syria's Alawi heartlands

20 hours ago

Bulgarian police blocked rescue of Egyptian teenagers who froze to death at border

13 hours ago

Biden and Blinken bow out as embodiments of a genocidal status quo

17 hours ago

Gaza ceasefire: How did a small Gulf monarchy become a brand in mediation?

19 hours ago

Gaza ceasefire: The PA's race to prove itself to Trump as rivals line up

1 day ago

Gaza ceasefire: After 15 months of brutality, Israel has failed on every front

2 days ago

Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi's case exposes the folly of fighting words with brute force

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Why the case of Aafia Siddiqui demands urgent action now

2 days ago

War on Gaza: What will happen after the bombs fall silent?

3 days ago

Grooming gangs: This vile racist campaign puts Muslims in serious danger

4 days ago

Turkey doesn't seek conflict with Israel in Syria. Here's why

6 days ago

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel: The billionaires fomenting a global race war

8 days ago

Dr Abu Safiya symbolised humanity in Gaza. Israel and the West are destroying it

8 days ago

How international NGOs racialise and silence Palestinian civil society

15 days ago

How is Israel antisemitic and why does it attack Jews?

21 days ago

Israel is up to its old 'divide and rule' tricks. Syria's Druze must resist them

28 days ago

How Egypt's new political party will deepen state repression

10 days ago

Tunisia revolution anniversary: Syria gives us hope that one day, we will truly be free

3 days ago

War on Gaza: As Palestinians suffer, liberal Zionists play the victim

4 days ago

After 23 years, Guantanamo remains an omnipresent threat to Muslims

6 days ago

Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Abduction shows the counter-revolution is alive and well

7 days ago

Can Lebanon's new president save his country from the abyss?

7 days ago

France: Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. The racism he inspired lives on

8 days ago

How the Palestinian Authority became Israel's enforcer in the West Bank

9 days ago

Imad was killed in search of food for his kids. How much grief must Gaza families bear?

10 days ago

Syria: Outrage after group paints over 'history and evidence' in prison

1 day ago

Mourning and celebrations online after Gaza ceasefire agreement

2 days ago

'Persecution': Outpouring of anger after 'termination' of pro-Palestine Columbia professor

3 days ago

As Los Angeles wildfires burn, social media points to Israeli-made fires in Gaza

8 days ago

Former NBA star Dwight Howard says 'Free Palestine' tweet nearly got him fired

9 days ago

Fans call for boycott of popular K-drama for 'thinly veiled references' to Israel's war on Gaza

10 days ago

Doctors from around world demand Israel release Kamal Adwan hospital director

17 days ago

'Taqiyya' goes viral: Ex-Muslim Magdeburg market attacker sparks debate

25 days ago

Why the Turkish foreign minister and Syrian leader sipping tea in Damascus became a viral meme

25 days ago

Syria: BBC interview with HTS leader sparks online backlash

28 days ago

CNN launches investigation after Syrian prisoner rescue report faces intense scrutiny

1 month ago

Middle East Eye's picks of the year 2024

23 days ago

From Perfumed with Mint to The Bibi Files: The 10 best Middle Eastern Films of 2024

23 days ago

Trump's incoming envoy raises hopes of a 'free Imran Khan'

24 days ago

Revealed: How Israel's plan to carve up Syria was thwarted by Assad's downfall

28 days ago

Why did online footage of a 'historic' UN panel in Riyadh disappear?

28 days ago

In shattered Yarmouk, the Palestinians of Syria mourn their 'paradise' lost to war

30 days ago

Syrians live among bones after years of Tadamon killings

27 days ago

Syrian commander on Israeli frontline says invasion will go no further

1 month ago

UK gave Israeli army chief special immunity on secret trip where he met attorney general

1 month ago

A tour of Assad's homes with the Syrians who stormed them

1 month ago

Queen Elizabeth 'refused to allow Israeli officials inside Buckingham Palace'

1 month ago

What's next for Turkey in Syria?

1 month ago

In search of a coherent Labour policy on Gaza

12 days ago

Is it a fake? The mystery of the last Ottoman caliph's secret plan

1 month ago

The Message: How Palestine changed Ta-Nehisi Coates's view of justice

1 month ago

Francesca Albanese: ICC should seek more arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

1 month ago

How the Axis of Resistance is shaping the Middle East

3 months ago

Google backed Israel's military. Now its workers are in revolt

3 months ago

How the war on Gaza exposed Israeli and western fascism

4 months ago

You can't arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying?

4 months ago

How Israeli genocide in Gaza exposed the West's liberal delusion

4 months ago

Revealed: Why there is an abandoned Ottoman tomb in remote India

5 months ago

Starmer's fingerprints - not just the Tories' - are all over Britain's race riots

5 months ago

How Netanyahu's Washington visit paved the way for regional war

5 months ago

Hamas approves Israeli list of captives to be freed as part of Gaza ceasefire deal

11 days ago

An Israeli army dog mauled a pregnant Palestinian woman. Then she lost the baby

11 days ago

Israeli media publishes guide for holidaying soldiers on how to avoid arrest

11 days ago

Neonatal doctor Thabat Saleem killed by Israel in central Gaza strike

11 days ago

Israeli soldier flees Brazil amid investigation into Gaza war crimes

12 days ago

'Look at us with mercy': Palestinians plead for help as storms uproot Gaza tents

17 days ago

'Creating chaos': Israeli bombing in 'safe zone' kills Gaza police chief

15 days ago

Israel ignores WHO appeals and attacks another hospital in northern Gaza

15 days ago

Syrian diaspora seeks closure as Assad's removal offers a chance to rebuild

14 days ago

Turkey to establish strategic defence ties and military cooperation with Syria

15 days ago

Disinformation stokes Alawi unease as Assad loyalists pursued in Syria

22 days ago

Egypt: Sisi fears a popular uprising after the fall of Assad in Syria

23 days ago

Syria's 300 percent customs duty hike angers Turkish businesses

16 hours ago

Israelis and Iranians cannot fly to Syria, says Turkish Airlines

1 day ago

Turkey offers military aid to Syria for counterterrorism during unprecedented Ankara visit

2 days ago

'Children cannot stay depressed': Beirut Christians mark dampened Christmas after Israel war

24 days ago

Lebanon's Syrian refugees turn their eyes to home after fall of Assad

28 days ago

Israeli forces begin withdrawal from southern Lebanon

1 month ago

Qana residents recall Israel's history of massacres in their hometown

1 month ago

Israel violating Lebanon ceasefire agreement with dozens of strikes on south

1 month ago

How the Lebanon ceasefire may show who now wields real power in Israel

1 month ago

Why Iranian conservatives are against the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

1 month ago

What is next for Hezbollah in Lebanon?

1 month ago

Over eight million in Sudan on brink of famine, says UN-backed analysis

24 days ago

Sudan army air strike kills over 100 in North Darfur market

1 month ago

The smugglers and miners running gold on the Egypt-Sudan border

2 months ago

French weapons used in Sudan in violation of UN embargo, Amnesty says

2 months ago

UN Security Council discusses troop deployment in Sudan as violence escalates

2 months ago

Donald Trump and Sudan: What can we expect from the next US presidency?

2 months ago

UN probe finds evidence of large-scale sexual violence by RSF in Sudan

2 months ago

RSF kills scores of civilians in Sudan's Gezira after commander defects to army

2 months ago

Stashes of Emirati weapons found in Sudan's Wad Madani: Report

5 days ago

Sudanese army says it captured key RSF-held capital of al-Jazira state

6 days ago

What you need to know about the Gaza ceasefire deal

2 days ago

The Arab Interior Ministers Council: What is it and why are there human rights concerns?

7 days ago

US sanctions on Syria: How they work and what they mean

15 days ago

What is Sednaya? Inside Bashar al-Assad's prison of torture and fear

1 month ago

Did the US fund the Syrian rebels that toppled Assad?

1 month ago

The Syrian National Army: Rebels, thugs or Turkish proxies?

1 month ago

What does Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham believe in?

1 month ago

What are Shaheen drones, the new rebel weapon in Syria's skies?

1 month ago

The Seed of the Sacred Fig: Tense Iranian portrayal of a family torn apart by Mahsa Amini protests

2 days ago

Fabricating Homeland Security: How India was sold the dream to become 'more like Israel'

4 days ago

How medieval Muslim migrants helped build Europe's castles, churches and monasteries

7 days ago

Maus author Art Spiegelman to collaborate with Joe Sacco on Gaza comic

12 days ago

How a 7 October video game highlighted the gaming world's uneasy relationship with Islam

16 days ago

The Bibi Files: A liberal Zionist effort to blame Netanyahu for Israel's woes

19 days ago

'If I must die': An anthology of a stubborn, brilliant life in Gaza

28 days ago

The Bibi Files: The truth Netanyahu doesn't want you to see

29 days ago

Bristol Palestine Film Festival finds reconciliation after last year's cancellations

1 month ago

Made in Gaza: From Ground Zero gives voice to filmmakers trapped in war zone

1 month ago

How Hollywood failed to change Trump's America and what Arab artists must now do

1 month ago

From cassettes to streaming: Moroccan classics are getting a new life online

2 months ago

Seven Pavilions of Love: London exhibition celebrates Nizami and the Persian miniature

2 months ago

Salt Journals: Tunisian women describe their country's legacy of political imprisonment

2 months ago

The Village Next to Paradise: Mo Harawe on his landmark Somali film and Cannes debut

2 months ago

Gaza's cultural and religious heritage lies in ruins after a year of attacks by Israel

3 months ago

Palestinian grief and Lebanon's ghosts of war cast a shadow on Locarno 2024

3 months ago

Dar al-Fata al-Arabi: A look at the first Arab publishing house dedicated to children

4 months ago

Masameer: How a zany YouTube cartoon captured the pulse of a changing Saudi Arabia

4 months ago

The Muslim senator who took on Australia's government

3 days ago

Palestinians must audition for 'our own humanity'

20 days ago

The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad's nightmare

1 month ago

Trump's intrusive demons and Israel's 'enlightened cause'

2 months ago

Americans 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism

2 months ago

Jill Stein: 'The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves'

2 months ago

Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism

2 months ago

'He was sent by God': Talking to Trump supporters about Israel

2 months ago

The untold history of the Israeli Defence Forces

2 months ago

Dahiyeh Doctrine: Why Israel lost the 2006 Lebanon War

3 months ago

Can Arab-Americans sway the 2024 US election?

4 months ago

How Elon Musk turned X into a far-right haven

2 months ago

'If you're an Arab journalist, you're political': Western media & Gaza | Hind Hassan

7 days ago

Syria's disappeared: One woman's fight to find her father | Wafa Mustafa

21 days ago

Assad dynasty: How one family brutally ruled Syria for 54 years | Joshua Landis

28 days ago

How AIPAC unseated US congressman Jamaal Bowman over Israel

1 month ago

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Gaza genocide, witnessing Israel's apartheid & the US elections

2 months ago

Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon: How the pro-Israel lobby influences US policy | Stephen Walt

2 months ago

Elon Musk, UK far right, and Islamophobia: Why Humza Yousaf is sounding the alarm

3 months ago

How America's Gaza policy failed | Matt Duss

3 months ago

How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

4 days ago

What exactly happened in Syria's 13-year civil war

15 days ago

Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

2 months ago

Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

3 months ago

Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

3 months ago

Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

4 months ago

Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

6 months ago

Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

6 months ago

Op-Ed video: Who is the real threat to British democracy?

3 days ago

Op-Ed video: 'It's not complex, it's simple. What's happening in Gaza is morally wrong'

3 days ago