Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has enlisted virulently anti-Muslim British far-right activist Tommy Robinson to endorse his party’s upcoming election campaign. Chikli last week described Syria as “Gaza on steroids” and predicted that it would be the site of Israel’s next war, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu separately called Britain the “Islamic Republic of Britain”—a…
The US-based Palestine Chronicle has republished a wholly false Hezbollah-linked claim that Iran “foiled” a planned Syrian invasion of Lebanon, despite Syria’s documented refusal to intervene. The story fits a fourteen-year pattern in which the Chronicle and other nominally left-wing Western media repackaged Assadist, Iranian and Russian misinformation also promoted by the far right: Syrian…
What an exemplary trial. And what a bitter aftertaste it threatens to leave behind. At the beginning of June, the Vienna Regional Court sentenced two henchmen of the Syrian Assad dictatorship who had fled to Austria to eight years in prison each. A panel of lay judges found a former general of the General Intelligence Service and a former police commander guilty of being responsible for the brutal…
US Central Command today announced the launch of Task Force Falcon Strike, the first planned multinational attack-drone force integrating one-way weapons in the air, on the sea and underwater. The Middle East-specific initiative was unveiled only 16 days after CENTCOM announced Task Force Talon Synapse, a separate US–UAE military-AI partnership for intelligence support, infrastructure protection…
A Washington Post article published today claims Syria must prove it can be trusted by the US, citing vaguely defined “Islamists” in its military and an Israeli security centre’s report on one religious school network. The article conflates Islamists, foreign fighters, extremists and jihadists; omits Washington’s approval of the transparent integration of thousands of foreign fighters; and treats…
A new investigation has revealed that representatives of the influential MAGA-aligned far-right Heritage Foundation have been lobbying European politicians to support restructuring Bosnia and Herzegovina along ethno-religious lines. Heritage promotes dividing the country into three increasingly autonomous Serb, Croat and Bosniak entities while depicting Bosniaks simply as “Muslims” and presenting…
Syria has strongly condemned Colombia’s recognition of Israeli 'sovereignty' over the occupied Syrian Golan, while UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Claudio Cordone said the decision “directly contravenes international law”. Colombia is only the second country after the United States to recognise Israel’s annexation, which UN Security Council Resolution 497 declared “null and void and without…
Syrian refugee Samer Jouha has been hailed as a hero after jumping into the River Avon in Evesham, England, to save 80-year-old Wendy Snell from drowning on Saturday, August 1. Samer, who fled Syria with his family in 2011 and found safety in Britain seven years ago, acted immediately after seeing Wendy in the water. “This is what our culture teaches us – if anyone needs help, you do your best to…
Syria has announced a landmark agreement to restructure Russia’s presence on the Syrian coast, placing civilian facilities at Hmeimim Airport and Tartus Port’s fourth commercial berth under Syrian state administration. Russia’s military bases will be converted into joint Syrian-Russian training centres, with the changes due to take effect within three months following approximately 18 months of…
A former senior Israeli security official has mocked the new Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan—but his comments also revealed Israel’s deeper concern about the emerging alliance. Professor Jacob Nagel, a former acting national security adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu and former head of Israel’s National Security Council, dismissed Saudi Arabia as a “paper…