Avi Ohayon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Mia Durham On October 27th, Israelis will have their first national election since the Hamas-led terrorist attack on the state on October 7, 2023. It is also the first time that the Knesset has completed a full four-year term... Continue Reading →
LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Allie Heiniger On September 10, 2026, Algeria severed diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accusing Abu Dhabi of repeated “provocative or hostile” actions. Algeria expelled the Emirati ambassador and closed its airspace to UAE-registered aircraft, though it temporarily exempted commercial flights. The UAE responded... Continue Reading →
File:Red Sea 37.95521E 21.41271N.jpg. (2026, February 19). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved September 28, 2026, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Red_Sea_37.95521E_21.41271N.jpg&oldid=1168454132. By Mia Durham In February of 2026, the United States and Israel led a joint attack against Iran, sending much of the world's attention to the critical economic chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz, which has been closed since the... Continue Reading →
Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Mia Durham On February 28th, the United States and Israel conducted coordinated airstrikes on Iran. President Trump claimed that the goals of the operation were to encourage the removal of the authoritarian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regime, to remove all of Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities, and... Continue Reading →
Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Noah Eubanks On March 4, a U.S. attack boat torpedoed and sank Tehran’s 1,500‑ton Moudge‑class frigate IRIS Dena about 40 nautical miles off Sri Lanka’s southern coast, killing 84 Iranian sailors and injuring 32, with many more missing. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called it... Continue Reading →
By Suha Abrahim The US is planning to establish a military presence at a Damascus airbase to enable security agreements between Israel and Syria. Mediated by the US, the base is expected to make up a demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria. The US already has troop presence in eastern Syria to back the Syrian Democratic... Continue Reading →
By Suha Abrahim On November 11th, Iraqis are heading to the polls again since the last 2021 election. Voter turnout is expected to be at its lowest since post 2003. Turnout is expected to range from forty to twenty-five percent. The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission has accepted 7,768 candidates to run for parliament, including 5,520 men... Continue Reading →
By Suha Abrahim On Tuesday night, the Knesset voted on two separate bills, one to annex the Maale Adumim settlement and to apply Israeli sovereignty to all illegally occupied West Bank settlements. Both bills passed the preliminary reading, the former 32-9 and the latter 25-24. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party boycotted the votes, with the only supporter from... Continue Reading →
By Suha Abrahim The announcement of Trump's 20-point peace plan is said to end Israel’s war in Gaza immediately. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the peace plan but was still awaiting a response from Hamas at the time. Hamas, eventually responding late Friday, announced it was ready to release the remaining hostages as long as... Continue Reading →
By Suha Abrahim Twenty-Four hours after the strike in Doha, capital of Qatar, Israel carried out strikes in Sanaa the capital of Yemen and al-Jawf governate. Yemen’s ministry of health confirmed that thirty-five people have been killed and 131 injured. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated these strikes were in response to a drone strike by the Houthis earlier... Continue Reading →
