Category: 3. Middle East

United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have solidified a strategy of “maximum pressure” against Iran, targeting the country’s vital oil exports to China, even as deep rifts emerge regarding the…

The Syrian Army has taken over the Al-Shaddadi military base in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria, following coordination with the US, the Defense Ministry said Sunday, Anadolu reports.

The army assumed…

The start of this year’s Berlin Film Festival was marked by a row over how far film should venture into politics but for prominent French-Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass, “everything we do is a political act”.

Abbass is starring in two films being…

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli strikes killed at least 12 people since dawn on Sunday, while a military official said the attacks were in response to ceasefire violations.

Despite a US-brokered truce that entered its second…

A lone gunman in Montenegro kills 13 people. In Sweden, gun homicides surge, becoming the highest in Western Europe. The link: Balkan…

In recent months, artificial intelligence has been in the news for the wrong reasons: use of deepfakes to scam people, AI systems used to manipulate cyberattacks, and chatbots encouraging suicides, among others.

Experts are already warning against…

Limits to pardon powers

But there are limits to presidential clemency, and already, Trump has brushed against them.

In December, Trump announced that he would pardon Tina Peters, a former county clerk in Colorado who supported Trump’s false claims…

The Israeli army is set to conduct a drill on Sunday near the occupied West Bank, amid escalating regional tensions with Iran, Anadolu reports.

A military statement said the exercise will be held in…