“Interestingly, that their [Druze] location in the Golan Heights presents, if you like, a strategic interest for Israel.
Category: 3. Middle East
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Israel uses Druze community to justify “interfering in Syria”
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AI-generated image of Trump as pope is the latest White House controversy | Donald Trump
NewsFeed US President Donald Trump is facing backlash for publishing an AI-generated image of himself as the pope, just weeks after the death of Pope Francis. The Trump administration has been criticised before for provocative social media posts…
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Syrian gov’t reaches deal with Druze community, as Israel steps up attacks | Syria’s War
NewsFeed Israel has repeatedly bombed Syria it says to protect the Druze minority from violence by pro-government forces, a stance the Syrian Druze community rejects. Syrian forces have reached an agreement with Druze leaders to improve security,…
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UN’s Francesca Albanese defiant amid Israeli pressure and Gaza catastrophe | Gaza
UN special rapporteur discusses pressure to cancel her role, threats of arrest in Germany, and ongoing Gaza catastrophe.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, talks to Al Jazeera following…
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Israeli soldiers, settlers harass Palestinian activist featured in BBC film | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Israeli soldiers and settlers have harassed a Palestinian activist featured in a recent BBC documentary that has received praise for shedding light on the plight of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
As the world’s attention has been fixed…
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‘Starbase’: Residents of Texas site home to Musk’s SpaceX back city status | Elon Musk News
Overwhelming majority of people who voted to turn base into municipality are employees of Elon Musk’s space company.
A community in the southern US state of Texas that is home to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be renamed Starbase…
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MSF hospital bombing kills seven people in South Sudan | Sudan war
NewsFeed At least seven people were killed and 20 injured after a Doctors Without Borders hospital was bombed in Old Fangak, South Sudan. MSF condemned the attack as ‘a clear violation of international humanitarian law’ as fears grow of a…
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What led to Mike Waltz’s ouster as Trump’s national security adviser? | Donald Trump News
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Mike Waltz as national security adviser (NSA), a key policy-shaping role, and tapped Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take over the role in the interim.
Trump announced that he was…
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No, Trump is not a fascist. He is a hypercapitalist and just as dangerous | Politics
Since taking office in January, United States President Donald Trump has undertaken policy after policy that has shocked Americans and the world. From launching an immigration crackdown and persecuting legal residents sympathetic to the…
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Trump faces backlash after posting AI image dressed as pope | Donald Trump News
Cardinals will gather on May 7 in a conclave in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope.
United States President Donald Trump has faced backlash, including from Catholics, after he posted an artificial intelligence-generated photo…
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