Informed Comment

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

It is the result of a decades-long erosion of belief in the ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic.

Staff faces risks, cuts, after Israel revoked the licenses of 37 humanitarian organizations for not complying with new registration rules

Andersen said, “I mean, you can’t really fathom that this is actually something that is being said out loud. It just seems too crazy.”

Germany, home to the largest Yazidi diaspora outside Iraq, initially granted protection to those fleeing IS.

Order makes clear that the administration’s ideological deportation policy must stop, Knight Institute says

The thousands of ISIL fighters imprisoned by the Kurds in 14 detention centers had terrorized western and northern Iraq and eastern Syria

the massive ecological destruction brought to Lebanon as a result of the 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel

The U.S. has since intercepted oil tankers as far away as North Atlantic Ocean

The last 12 months have shown that Trump’s party is bent on inflicting vast cruelty while aiming to crush democracy and the rule of law