Russia says terrorists, White Helmets plotting chemical attack in Idlib to blame Damascus

The file photo shows members of the White Helmets group in Aleppo, northern Syria. (AFP) The Russian Defense Ministry warns that militants from the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group with the help of the West-backed White Helmets group are planning to stage yet another false flag chemical...

South African dockworkers refuse to unload Israeli ship in solidarity with Palestinians

A member of the South African Student Congress (SASCO) holds a poster reflecting the face of the late Palestinian political leader, Yasser Arafat, during their protest in solidarity with Palestine outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on May 20, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Dockworkers in the South African...

Resistance groups: Palestinian victory redrew balance of power

A Palestinian child and a family member join others as people celebrate in the street following a ceasefire announced by Israel with the two main Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza City, on May 21, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Resistance groups in the region have hailed the historic victory of Palestinians...

Putin threatens to ‘knock out teeth’ of Russia’s adversaries

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 26, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against any foreign attempts to challenge the territorial integrity of Russia, threatening that the countries seeking to do so would have their...

Israel couldn’t commit war crimes against Palestinians without US patronage, says scholar

An elderly Palestinian woman reacts in front of her home, damaged by Israeli bombardment, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on May 20, 2021. (Photo by AFP) A political commentator says Israeli authorities could not commit various war crimes and acts of aggression against Palestinians, particularly...

Palestinians celebrate victory, Israelis mourn ’embarrassing’ ceasefire

People take to the streets to celebrate following a ceasefire unilaterally declared by Israel and accepted by Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City early on May 21, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Palestinians in East Jerusalem al-Quds, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip celebrated victory against Israel,...

‘Lot of work to be done’: Lavrov says Russia ready to kickstart dialog on strategic stability, other issues after meeting Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meet on the sidelines of the Arctic Council Ministerial summit, in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 19, 2021. © Reuters / Saul Loeb Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he felt that his US counterpart Antony Blinken...

Hamas: We declare victory, Netanyahu suffered a great defeat

Mousa Abu Marzouq, Hamas’ deputy leader Hamas declares victory in its now-10-day-long struggle against the Israeli regime’s huge escalation targeting the Gaza Strip, calling the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the big loser of the confrontation. Since last Monday, the regime has unconscionably...

Calls grow for Israel to end bloodshed as death toll rises in Gaza

Members of the Palestinian Abu Dayer family cry at the al-Shifa hospital after the death of family members in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on May 17, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Calls are growing worldwide for Israel to end its bloody military aggression on the Gaza Strip as more Palestinians fall victim...

52 Israeli jets bomb Gaza overnight; Palestinian resistance fires 50 rockets

A drone image shows the ruins of buildings that were destroyed in Israeli air strikes. (Photo by Reuters) The Israeli military says its warplanes carried out 122 strikes on Gaza overnight, as the regime continues its bombardment of the besieged enclave, targeting residential buildings in total disregard...

Colombian commandos assassinate ex-FARC rebel in Venezuela: Dissident group

Colombian national and former rebel Jesus Santrich gestures during a news conference in Bogota, Colombia, on November 16, 2017. (Photo by Reuters) Colombian commandos have allegedly assassinated a former commander of the now-disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Venezuela. Seuxis...

52 Israeli jets bomb Gaza overnight; Palestinian resistance fires 50 rockets

A drone image shows the ruins of buildings that were destroyed in Israeli air strikes. (Photo by Reuters) The Israeli military says its warplanes carried out 122 strikes on Gaza overnight, as the regime continues its bombardment of the besieged enclave, targeting residential buildings in total disregard...

China says US threatening peace in Taiwan Strait

This is a file photo of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur. China says the United States threatens the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, shortly after the US military sent yet another warship to the sensitive waterway. The US Navy confirmed that the Arleigh Burke-class...

Palestinian resistance groups launch fresh retaliatory attacks on Israel

Rockets are launched towards Israel from Gaza City by the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, on May 18, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Palestinian resistance groups have launched a fresh round of retaliatory attacks on the occupied territories as the Israeli regime continues with a deadly onslaught against...

Antisemitism stunt gets more attention from British politicians than killings in besieged Gaza

British Politicians have come out in force to condemn anti-Semitism after a video online appeared to show people shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a car in London but have been reluctant to condemn the Israeli onslaught against the people of Gaza. Four people have been arrested after police investigated...

EU foreign ministers fail to agree on Israeli bombardment

EU foreign affairs ministers have failed to reach conclusions regarding Israel’s escalating violence against the Palestinian people. This, as rights groups are calling on the bloc to impose sanctions against Israel. It was billed as an emergency meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers to discuss the...

33 dead, dozens missing as cyclone batters Covid-stricken India

A motorist rides past a damaged car at a street in Mumbai on May 18, 2021, after Cyclone Tauktae hit the west coast of India with powerful winds. (Photo by AFP) At least 33 people died and more than 90 were missing on Tuesday after a monster cyclone slammed India, compounding the country’s woes as...

Gaza coronavirus testing & vaccinations disrupted after main lab damaged in Israeli strikes, health officials say

Smoke rises from a building after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, May 15, 2021. © Reuters / Suhaib Salem Gaza’s primary Covid-19 testing and vaccination site was taken offline after it was struck in an Israeli air raid, Palestinian health officials said, warning that Tel Aviv’s bombing campaign...

Israeli military fires shells at southern Lebanon

Israeli soldiers fire a 155-mm self-propelled howitzer toward the Gaza Strip from a position near the Palestinian enclave, on May 17, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Israel has fired artillery shells at Lebanon, after rockets were fired from the country toward the occupied Palestinian territories. The Israeli...

Amid protests Pakistan wants OIC’s decisive steps to stop Israel’s aggression

In a rare show of unity, the opposition parties and government joined hands in Pakistan’s Parliament to pass a unanimous resolution over what it said unending war crimes against unarmed Palestinians by Israel. The Parliament called on 57-member block of Muslim countries. The Organization of Islamic...

Seven Israeli officers injured in car-ramming attack in Sheikh Jarrah +VIDEO

Israeli forces inspect on May 16, 2021 the spot where a car-ramming attack wounded several military officers, in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem al-Quds. (Photo by AFP) Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian in Sheikh Jarrah after a car-ramming attack in the flashpoint Jerusalem...

Hamas fires rockets at Ashkelon, Be’er Sheva after deadliest night of Israeli raids on Gaza

Rockets are fired from Gaza towards Israeli-occupied territories early on May 16, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Hamas’ military wing says it has fired rockets at the Ashkelon and Be’er Sheva areas after the deadliest night of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since the beginning of relentless attacks...

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather outside Austrian Chancellery

Hundreds of Austrian protesters gather outside the office of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, expressing their anger at the government’s decision to take Israel’s side as it continues its deadly bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip. Protesters were not given legal permission for a large demonstration,...

Italian port workers refuse to load arms shipment destined for Israel

Dock workers from the Italian base union of USB operating at the port of Livorno, in northern Tuscany, have planned to refuse to load a shipment of arms after discovering the load was headed to Israel. The shipment included explosives and precision-guided munitions destined for the port city of Ashdod,...

China: US choking criticism of Israel at UNSC

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi China’s foreign minister blasts the United States for choking any criticism of the Israeli regime’s barbarity against the Palestinians at the United Nations Security Council. Regrettably, simply because of the obstruction of one country, the Security Council hasn’t...

Bin Zayed’s remarks attest to UAE’s complicity in Israeli aggression against Palestinians: PFLP

Palestinians evacuate a wounded girl from the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza City’s Rimal residential district on May 16, 2021, following massive Israeli bombardment on the Hamas-controlled enclave. (Photo by AFP) The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has strongly condemned...

Myanmar junta pounds town with airstrikes, artillery to crush anti-coup fighters

Protesters hold banners and placards during a rally in Yangon, Myanmar, on May 11, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Myanmar’s military has launched a battle against anti-coup armed fighters in the country’s northwest as part of attempts to quell widespread protests that erupted after the junta seized power...

UK Health Secretary says Indian variant of Covid-19 could ‘spread like wildfire among the unvaccinated’

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock holds a news conference at 10 Downing Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain March 17, 2021. © REUTERS / Hannah McKay UK Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock has warned that the new Indian variant...

UK Labour Party’s Ex-Head Calls Current Leadership ’Weak’ Over Poor Election Results

Former leader of the United Kingdom’s main opposition party Jeremy Corbyn slammed the current Labour leadership as being weak following the party’s record low election performance. The loss was enormous last week. And the loss was also to third parties such as the Green party of disillusioned Labour...

Hamas vows to target Israel with more rockets after Gaza tower razed to ground

Gaza tower housing AP, Al Jazeera is seen during a missile strike in Gaza city, May 15, 2021. (Photo by Reuters) Hamas’ military wing has vowed to continue to fire rockets at central Israeli-occupied territories after the Israeli military destroyed Al Jalaa tower in Gaza, which housed a number of...