In September 2025, The Sea (El mar), the story of a Palestinian boy who crosses checkpoints in an attempt to reach Tel Aviv and see the Mediterranean for the first time, became
What does it mean when a soldier describes his own life not as a sequence of postings, but as an unbroken continuity between home, border, and operational responsibility? This question sits beneath
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A high-level Iranian delegation has arrived in Islamabad for direct negotiations with the United States, opening the talks with an emotional display of school belongings linked to children killed in reported airstrikes
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The finest military modern thinker, Maj Gen. J.F.C. Fuller, stated that the true object of war is not victory but the peace that follows the conflict. By that standard, the Trump-Netanyahu war
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The glaring differences between the United States and Iran notwithstanding, the talks beginning in Islamabad tomorrow have a fairly good chance of being a success. There is too much at stake, and
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Does witnessing suffering make you more moral? Can a life surrounded by brilliance teach you justice, or does real understanding only come from seeing the world at its worst? For Tom Gross,
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Despite predictions of its collapse, the Islamic Republic of Iran has withstood one of the most intense assaults in its recent history. Even after losing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and
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Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has issued a stark warning that Israel is actively seeking to derail any prospects for peace between the United States and
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It is highly unlikely, unfortunately, that the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan will endure. This is due to two principal impediments. First, Israel is adamantly opposed to a cessation of the bombing
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I sat glued to my screen through the long, tense night of April 8, 2026, in Peshawar, watching history unfold in real time. The world held its breath as a U.S. deadline
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The streets of south Tel Aviv still carry the visible scars of war. Shattered glass litters sidewalks, broken shutters hang from aging buildings, and entire sections of neighborhoods remain damaged after a
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, marking a dramatic reversal just hours after issuing a stark ultimatum to Tehran. The deal
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On a warm Saturday evening in central Tel Aviv, the sound of whistles and jeers carried across Habima Square as hundreds gathered to protest Israel’s ongoing war with Iran. Placards reading “Stop
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“We were the first city invaded on 22 September 1980 by Saddam’s army,” Dr Reza John Vedadi recalled of Khorramshahr, his birthplace, highlighting the formative impact of war and displacement on his
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The war between the United States, Israel and Iran is increasingly being defined not only by strategic targets and military objectives, but by the complex and often obscured reality of civilian harm.
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According to the recent report, the outgoing Mossad Director David Barnea gave a pre-operation assessment to Israeli top leadership that high-grade offensive operations in Iran could potentially topple the regime. However, it
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