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18.01.2026 - 17:08 [ Middle East Eye ]

Syrian army gains ground as Kurdish forces withdraw from key oil field

Government troops drove Kurdish forces from two Aleppo neighbourhoods following clashes last week, and on Saturday announced they had captured an area east of the city, as well as Tabqa, in Raqqa province, on the southwestern bank of the Euphrates.

At dawn on Sunday, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew „from all areas under its control in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside, including the al-Omar and Tanak oil fields“, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Al-Omar is the country‘s largest oil field, and was home to the biggest US base in Syria.

08.01.2026 - 20:59 [ USA Today ]

Minneapolis ICE shooting updates: State denied access to evidence

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said state officials didn‘t have jurisdiction in the case.

Some lawmakers called for the arrest of the officer in the shooting, and the Minneapolis City Council has demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave the city immediately. The Trump administration has asserted that the agent fired in self-defense, but local leaders disagreed.

08.01.2026 - 20:50 [ AP News ]

Live updates: State investigators say they can’t access ICE shooting evidence after FBI takes case

Minnesota’s investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. attorney’s office has prevented it from taking part in the investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.

“The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation,” Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement

07.01.2026 - 18:20 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Nach Krisensitzung zu Grönland: Dänemark bleibt auf Beschwichtigungskurs

Nicht mal eine Tasse Kaffee durften die Abgeordneten vom Auswärtigen Ausschuss des dänischen Parlaments mitnehmen, als sie sich gestern Abend in einem abhörsicheren Raum ohne Fenster trafen. Die Lage ist ernst. Wie soll Dänemark auf die aggressiven Töne aus den USA zu Grönland reagieren?

Nach dem Treffen wird klar: Dänemark versucht es weiter mit Beschwichtigung. Außenminister Lars Lökke Rasmussen betont: „Wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass die vermeintlich sachlichen Argumente, die Präsident Trump anführt, widerlegt werden. Nichts deutet darauf hin, dass viele Amerikaner seine Sicht teilen.“

07.01.2026 - 18:14 [ Reuters ]

European allies working on plan should US move on Greenland

A senior European official said Denmark must lead the effort to coordinate a response, but „the Danes have yet to communicate to their European allies what kind of concrete support they wish to receive,“ the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

21.12.2025 - 16:45 [ PrisonersForPalestine.org ]

Our prisoners are in critical danger

Qesser Zuhrah

Amu Gib

Heba Muraisi

Jon Cink

Teuta Hoxha

Kamran Ahmed

Lewie Chiaramello

21.12.2025 - 16:37 [ theTelegraph.co.uk ]

Palestine Action is worth dying for, says hunger striker

In the telephone interview, he said: “But I’m looking at the bigger picture of perhaps we can relieve oppression abroad and relieve the situations for my codefendants. Yes, I’m scared of passing away. Yes, this may have lifelong implications. But I look at the risk versus reward. I see it as worthwhile.”

He added that he had become a “shell” of himself because he rejects food and drinks only water with salt.

He said his speech has become slurred, he has been getting regular chest pains to the point like he feels he is “getting Tasered” and his body has been shaking. He added that a nurse told him she was concerned that he would not wake up when he went to sleep.

21.12.2025 - 16:32 [ Al Jazeera ]

UK prisoner on 42-day hunger strike says he fears death but will continue

An imprisoned Palestine Action activist who has been on hunger strike for 42 days has said he fears dying but believes the protest is worthwhile, according to an interview with The Sunday Times.

Kamran Ahmed, 28, spoke by telephone from HMP Pentonville in north London, where he is being held on remand. He is one of six Palestine Action activists refusing food while facing charges they deny, linked to alleged break-ins and criminal damage carried out before the group was banned under UK terrorism legislation.

15.12.2025 - 01:26 [ Nation News Barbados ]

US landing military aircraft in Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo – The government of the Dominican Republic has authorised several United States military aircraft to land in the country in the coming days as part of an operational support deployment in the Caribbean.

The aircraft will have temporary permits to operate from restricted areas at San Isidro Air Base and Las Américas International Airport.

15.12.2025 - 01:18 [ CNC3.co.tt ]

US military aircraft to arrive in Dominican Republic for deployment in the Caribbean

(December 13, 2025)

The C-130, in service since 1954, is one of the most successful military transport aircraft in history. Designed for rugged operations during the Cold War, it has been used in conflicts such as Vietnam and Desert Storm, as well as major humanitarian missions in Haiti, during Hurricane Katrina, and in global disaster zones.

The KC-130, introduced in the 1960s, serves as a tanker and logistics aircraft, enabling aerial refueling for fighter jets, helicopters, and drones.

It has supported operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, as well as nighttime special operations and personnel transport.

07.12.2025 - 20:53 [ Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel ]

Post-7 October: A New Wave of Anti-Palestinian Israeli Laws

This report builds on Adalah’s position paper of 23 October 2024, which reviewed key bills at advanced stages of the legislative process, many of which were later enacted into law. The information contained in this report and the position paper also join Adalah’s online Discriminatory Laws Database in documenting about 100 Israeli laws that directly or indirectly discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

The laws examined in this report span multiple themes and violate numerous fundamental rights, including freedom of expression (FoE), protest, and thought; the right to citizenship and legal status; the rights to family life, equality, social benefits, and equality in the allocation of state resources; principles of criminal justice; and prisoners’ rights. While these violations are legitimized by the hostile public and political climate fueled by the war, their roots lie deep in Israel’s constitutional and political culture, which is based on the principle of Jewish ethno-national supremacy. These laws reinforce and entrench the ongoing pattern in Israeli law of creating and consolidating separate legal systems for Palestinians and Jews.

Notably, the trends identified in this report do not represent a fundamental shift in the state’s approach toward Palestinians. Even before the war, Adalah noted in its January 2023 position paper, which analyzed the current government’s guiding principles and coalition agreements, that the principles underpinning Israel’s system are based on Jewish ethno-national supremacy throughout all territory under its control. The government explicitly declared in its guiding principles, “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right over all areas of the Land of Israel.” These statements were not unprecedented but rather a direct continuation of the logic underlying the Jewish Nation-State Law, passed by the Knesset on 19 July 2018, and of the constitutional framework established since the state’s founding, reflected in its explicit ethno-national identity as a “Jewish and democratic” state. However, the crimes committed by Hamas and other armed groups in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 have been—and continue to be—used by Israeli authorities to justify intensifying these trends and further consolidating a regime of ethno-national supremacy on an even larger scale.

07.12.2025 - 20:36 [ +972 Magazine ]

Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war

For over two years, Israeli public life has been shrouded in a heavy, disorienting fog. There has been an unending churn of crises, conflicts, and anxieties at home and abroad: the shock of the Hamas attack of October 7 and Israel’s genocidal campaign of revenge on Gaza, the fight to bring back the hostages and against the state’s vilification of their families, the reckless confrontations with Iran. Together, these have left Israeli society suspended in a collective stupor, obscuring the depth of the abyss into which we are rapidly descending.

But the same cannot be said of our parliamentarians. As a disturbing new report by the Haifa-based legal center Adalah shows, they have used the chaos of the past two years to advance more than 30 new laws entrenching apartheid and Jewish supremacy — joining Adalah’s existing list of now more than 100 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens.

One of the report’s central findings is a sweeping assault on freedom of expression, thought, and protest across a wide array of arenas. It includes laws prohibiting the publication of content that includes “denial of the events of October 7,” as determined by the Knesset, and restricting broadcasts of critical media outlets that “harm state security.”

02.12.2025 - 21:47 [ NovaraMedia.com ]

Second Palestine Action Prisoner Hospitalised

(November 28, 2025)

Hoxha is one of the ‘Filton 24’ – 24 people currently held on remand in connection with an action at an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, Gloucestershire, in August 2024. She has been imprisoned without trial since November 2024.

This is Hoxha’s second hunger strike, after previously refusing food starting in August this year. She told Novara Media in September that she was being “punished retrospectively” for the proscription of Palestine Action under UK terror law.

Hoxha was moved to HMP Peterborough from HMP Bronzefield on the day that MPs decided to ban Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act, and said that her treatment had worsened after the proscription. The English Literature graduate described being “called a terrorist” and “told that I’m part of a terrorist group” by prison staff, along with having her mail withheld and her job in the prison library taken away.

20.11.2025 - 19:29 [ New York Times ]

U.S.-Russian Peace Plan Would Force Ukraine to Cede Land and Cut Army

(November 19, 2025)

A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal.

The 28-point proposal, drafted without Ukrainian involvement, reflects the maximalist demands the Kremlin has made throughout the war, which Ukraine has long denounced as amounting to capitulation.

18.11.2025 - 15:17 [ United Nations ]

UN Security Council authorizes temporary international force for Gaza

The resolution also welcomes the establishment of a Board of Peace (BoP) “as a transitional administration” in Gaza that will coordinate reconstruction efforts.

It authorizes the BoP to establish a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza “to deploy under unified command acceptable to the BoP”.

Countries will contribute personnel to the force “in close consultation and cooperation” with Egypt and Israel.

18.11.2025 - 15:08 [ TRTWorld.com ]

Full Text of US-Backed Gaza Resolution Approved by UN Security Council

Resolution 2803 (2025)

Adopted by the Security Council at its 10046th meeting, on 17 November 2025

The Security Council,

Welcoming the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict of 29 September 2025 (“Comprehensive Plan”), and applauding the states that have signed, accepted, or endorsed it, and further welcoming the historic Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity of 13 October 2025 and the constructive role played by the United States of America, the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Republic of Türkiye, in having facilitated the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,

Determining that the situation in the Gaza Strip threatens the regional peace and the security of neighboring states and noting prior relevant Security Council resolutions relating to the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question,

1. Endorses the Comprehensive Plan, acknowledges the parties have accepted it, and calls on all parties to implement it in its entirety, including maintenance of the ceasefire, in good faith and without delay;

2. Welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace (BoP) as a transitional administration with international legal personality that will set the framework, and coordinate funding, for the redevelopment of Gaza pursuant to the Comprehensive Plan, and in a manner consistent with relevant international legal principles, until such time as the Palestinian Authority (PA) has satisfactorily completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French Proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. After the PA reform program is faithfully carried out and Gaza redevelopment has advanced, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence;

3. Underscores the importance of the full resumption of humanitarian aid in cooperation with the BoP into the Gaza Strip in a manner consistent with relevant international legal principles and through cooperating organizations, including the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Red Crescent, and ensuring such aid is used solely for peaceful uses and not diverted by armed groups;

4. Authorizes Member States participating in the BoP and the BoP to: (A) enter into such arrangements as may be necessary to achieve the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan, including those addressing privileges and immunities of personnel of the force established in paragraph 7 below; and (B) establish operational entities with, as necessary, international legal personality and transactional authorities for the performance of its functions, including: (1) the implementation of a transitional governance administration, including the supervising and supporting of a Palestinian technocratic, apolitical committee of competent Palestinians from the Strip, as championed by the Arab League, which shall be responsible for day-to-day operations of Gaza’s civil service and administration; (2) the reconstruction of Gaza and of economic recovery programs; (3) the coordination and supporting of and delivery of public services and humanitarian assistance in Gaza; (4) any measures to facilitate the movement of persons in and out of Gaza, in a manner consistent with the Comprehensive Plan; and (5) any such additional tasks as may be necessary to support and implement the Comprehensive Plan;

5. Understands that the operational entities referred to in paragraph 4 above will operate under the transitional authority and oversight of the BoP and are to be funded through voluntary contributions from donors and BoP funding vehicles and governments;

6. Calls upon the World Bank and other financial institutions to facilitate and provide financial resources to support the reconstruction and development of Gaza , including through the establishment of a dedicated trust fund for this purpose and governed by donors;

7. Authorizes Member States working with the BoP and the BoP to establish a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza to deploy under unified command acceptable to the BoP, with forces contributed by participating States, in close consultation and cooperation with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel, and to use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate consistent with international law, including international humanitarian law. The ISF shall work with Israel and Egypt, without prejudice to their existing agreements, along with the newly trained and vetted Palestinian police force, to help secure border areas; stabilize the security environment in Gaza by ensuring the process of demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, including the destruction and prevention of rebuilding of the military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, as well as the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups; protect civilians, including humanitarian operations; train and provide support to the vetted Palestinian police forces; coordinate with relevant States to secure humanitarian corridors; and undertake such additional tasks as may be necessary in support of the Comprehensive Plan. As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will withdraw from the Gaza Strip based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization that will be agreed between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the United States, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat. The ISF shall, (A) assist the BoP in monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire in Gaza, and enter into such arrangements as may be necessary to achieve the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan; and (B) operate under the strategic guidance of the BoP and will be funded through voluntary contributions from donors and BoP funding vehicles and governments;

8. Decides the BoP and international civil and security presences authorized by this resolution shall remain authorized until Dec. 31, 2027, subject to further action by the Council, and any further reauthorization of the ISF be in full cooperation and coordination with Egypt and Israel and other Member States continuing to work with the ISF;

9. Calls upon Member States and international organizations to work with the BoP to identify opportunities to contribute personnel, equipment, and financial resources to its operating entities and the ISF, to provide technical assistance to its operating entities and the ISF, and to give full recognition to its acts and documents;

10. Requests the BoP provide a written report on progress related to the above to the UN Security Council every six months;

11. Decides to remain seized of the matter.

17.11.2025 - 23:25 [ Al Jazeera ]

Security Council adopts US resolution on Gaza stabilisation force

The Security Council has just voted in favour of the resolution.

The vote tally was as follows: 13 votes in favour, zero against and two abstentions, including Russia.

A reminder that this resolution contains language that outlines a potential future path to Palestinian statehood.

11.11.2025 - 23:45 [ Trinidad Express ]

Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike group arrives in US Southcom, nearing the Caribbean

The largest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Gerald R. Ford has now arrived in the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility, closing a weeks long journey across the Atlantic ocean amid the US’ military buildup and ongoing boat strikes in Caribbean waters.

10.11.2025 - 18:07 [ Fox News ]

Senate Democrats cave, open path to reopening government

Several Senate Democrats crossed the aisle despite getting no guaranteed deal on Obamacare subsidies

10.11.2025 - 18:04 [ New York Times ]

8 Senators Break Ranks With Democrats and Advance G.O.P. Plan to End Shutdown

The compromise still needs to win approval in the Senate, pass the G.O.P.-controlled House and be signed by President Trump to bring the shutdown to an end.

Here are the eight senators — none of whom face re-election in 2026, and two of whom are retiring at the end of their terms — who broke ranks:

08.11.2025 - 22:28 [ StarAdvertiser.com ]

U.S. supercarrier to reach Caribbean next week amid military buildup

The U.S. Navy’s newest and most powerful aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, is expected to reach the Caribbean early next week, marking a dramatic escalation in the American military buildup near Venezuela amid growing speculation over possible U.S. strikes against Nicolás Maduro’s regime.

08.11.2025 - 19:56 [ Associated Press ]

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though residents in some states already have received the funds.

03.11.2025 - 19:53 [ theIndependent.co.uk ]

Wife of British journalist arrested by ICE fears for his health after ‘medical emergency’ in custody

Sami Hamdi was arrested by agents at San Francisco International Airport on October 26 as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown. Mr Hamdi, a 35-year-old father of three and an outspoken critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, was on a speaking tour of the US when he was held.

His wife, Soumaya Hamdi, told The Independent Monday that her husband’s health had deteriorated while in detention.

30.10.2025 - 14:34 [ Times of India ]

Cognitive confusion: Donald Trump refers to dementia screening as ‚very hard‘ IQ test

(October 29, 2025)

– The MoCA is a 10-to-15-minute cognitive screening tool designed to detect early signs of dementia or cognitive impairment. It assesses memory, attention, language, visuospatial skills and orientation.
– Neurologist Ziad Nasreddine, who developed the MoCA, has stated clearly: “There are no studies showing that this test is correlated to IQ tests. The purpose of it was not to determine persons who have a low IQ level.”
– Media analysis confirms that while Trump bragged about passing an “IQ test,” experts and documents show the exam used was a dementia screening, not an IQ or intelligence test.

30.10.2025 - 14:17 [ NewRepublic.com ]

Transcript: Trump’s Crazed Rant Over Cognitive Test Shows His Decline

(October 28, 2025)

President Donald Trump (voiceover): We have JD, obviously. The vice president, who’s great. I think Marco is great. I think … I’m not sure if anybody would run against those two. I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable. I really do. I believe that. I would—I would, I would love to do it. I have the best numbers ever. It’s very terrible. I have my best numbers. If you read it … am I not ruling it out? You’ll have to tell me. All I can tell you is that we have a a great group of people, which they don’t. They have Jasmine Crockett, a low-IQ person. They have AOC’s low-IQ. You give her an IQ test. Have her pass the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. I took—those are really hard. They’re really aptitude tests, I guess in a certain way. But, they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine—the first couple of questions are easy, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.

30.10.2025 - 14:13 [ TOI Bharat / Youtube ]

WATCH: Trump Mistakes India With Iran While Claiming Tariffs Stopped Nuclear War With Pakistan

(October 15, 2025)

US President Donald Trump once again found himself at the receiving end of trolls after he mistakenly confused India with Iran, calling the latter a nuclear power. Speaking to reporters at the White House in Washington, the 79-year-old said tariffs helped him prevent a ‚nuclear war‘ between Pakistan and Iran. „Tariffs are a very important tool for our defence, for our national security. If we don‘t have tariffs, we‘re not going to have national security,” Trump said. He claimed he was negotiating a trade deal with Iran, with Pakistan also in line. Trump said he warned both countries of a 200% tariff, and within 24 hours, the war stopped. He credited his actions with saving millions of lives.

30.10.2025 - 14:10 [ RBC.ua ]

Trump claims he stopped ‚Cambodia-Armenia war,‘ mistakenly mixing up Azerbaijan

(September 21, 2025)

The US President is not for the first time mistaken in his speeches. Thus, he named the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy the President of Russia. At a briefing, the American leader at first several times mentioned Zelenskyy correctly, but then accidentally stated that he is the President of Russia.

Earlier during his election speech, Trump named Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán „the leader of Turkey,“ confusing him with the current President of this country, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

21.10.2025 - 11:59 [ Japan Today ]

Diet elects Sanae Takaichi as Japan‘s first female prime minister

The LDP‘s alliance with the Osaka-based rightwing Japan Innovation Party, or Ishin no Kai, ensured her premiership because the opposition is not united. Takaichi‘s untested alliance is still short of a majority in both houses of parliament and will need to court other opposition groups to pass any legislation — a risk that could make her government unstable and short-lived.

The two parties signed a coalition agreement on policies underscoring Takaichi’s hawkish and nationalistic views.