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Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
Arab World

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Israel launched an attack on Doha in September 2025, Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit. […]

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

10/03/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

10/03/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Palestinians fear their land will be taken by rising Israeli right

Palestinians fear their land will be taken by rising Israeli right

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians are increasingly anxious for the future and are hesitant on a return to negotiations with Israel in the wake of the […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Yemen: Saudi-Led Airstrikes Take Civilian Toll

Yemen: Saudi-Led Airstrikes Take Civilian Toll

Human Rights Watch | – (Beirut) – The Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Arab countries that conducted airstrikes in Yemen on March 26 and 27, 2015, […]

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al-Qaeda
A Game-Changer in Syrian War?  al-Qaeda-led Factions take Idlib

A Game-Changer in Syrian War? al-Qaeda-led Factions take Idlib

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The provincial capital Idlib, a city of 165,000 in the old days and administrative center of the northwestern […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
ISIL, Yemen, Syria:  Drought, Climate Change and new Wars

ISIL, Yemen, Syria: Drought, Climate Change and new Wars

By David Reed | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – Natural resource scarcity poses a far broader challenge to prosperity and national security than traditional military […]

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Apartheid
French Firm Pulls Out of Jerusalem Cable Car Project

French Firm Pulls Out of Jerusalem Cable Car Project

by IMEMC News | – France-based utility giant Suez Environnement said Wednesday that, because of political sensitivities, it has decided not to take part in […]

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Climate Change
Antarctic Ice Melting Faster than Ever in "Unstoppable Decline"

Antarctic Ice Melting Faster than Ever in “Unstoppable Decline”

By Laurence Padman, Fernando Paolo and Helen Amanda Fricker | (The Conversation) Ask people what they know about Antarctica and they usually mention cold, snow […]

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Houthi
Who Has A Stake In Yemen Fight?

Who Has A Stake In Yemen Fight?

By Michael Scollon | (RFE/RL) – Yemen is at the center of a proxy war between regional heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia. It's the source […]

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Lebanon's Shiite Hizbullah slams Saudi attack on Yemen

Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbullah slams Saudi attack on Yemen

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hizbullah, Lebanese Shiite party-militia, weighed in on Friday on the Saudi intervention in […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Will Indiana 'Religious Freedom' Law permit anti-Gay Discrimination?

Will Indiana ‘Religious Freedom’ Law permit anti-Gay Discrimination?

Jackie Koppell and Jo Ankier | (TheLipTV) “Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a religious freedom bill into law amid pressure from opponents who argue that […]

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