A masked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla) Thu 06 February 2025: Recent developments in Syria have garnered significant global attention, disrupting the international focus on the crises in Ukraine […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: Now that the Israeli aggression on Gaza has ended, albeit temporarily, the Israelis, after nearly 500 days since the 7 October attack, are still searching for an answer to the historical question of why Hamas carried out this attack. Meanwhile, they are ignoring the fact that the Palestinians broke the barrier […]
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Sun 02 February 2025: And lied about it. There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: As illegal and small-scale mining contaminates rivers and soil, many worry President John Mahama will allow such practices to continue. When activist Oliver Barker Vormawor saw reports in September that Ghana’s water agency would not be able to supply some parts of the country with water due to extreme contamination of […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: It has long been a classic hallmark of a colonial government or authority to groom a disadvantaged minority in a subjugated region to either foster long-term generational divisions or to counter a rival power – a strategy that does, tragically, exploit the real grievances of those groups. A century after the […]
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Thu 30 January 2025: The violence wrought by the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 Movement is often narrowly framed as intended to control eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s resource-rich mining sites. The rebel group launched its most recent offensive in 2021 and currently controls vast territories in the south-east of North Kivu province, surrounding and cutting off the main city of Goma. […]
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Tue 28 January 2025: After nearly three decades of warfare, armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has only intensified. The Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion – which claims to control the main eastern DRC city of Goma since January 26 – has been at the centre of attention in recent years. However, eastern DRC is home to […]
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Mon 27 January 2025: Some are concerned that collective punishment could be a consequence of the tech billionaire’s relentless posts about historic child sex abuse cases. London, United Kingdom – Azmat Khan, a British Pakistani taxi driver, is not usually much of a worrier. But recently, as he drives his cab at night through London’s ice-cold […]
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Sun 26 January 2025: The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of groups that want to establish jihadist states. A jihadist state is a structure that operates under Islamic law, or sharia, and is directed by a single leader, or caliph, who combines political and […]
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Sat 25 January 2025: The people have been fighting for freedom for nearly a century, starting with the 1925 Great Syrian Revolt against colonial rule. The toppling of Bashar al Assad and the regime change in Syria within two weeks of the opposition’s advancements from Idlib and Daraa came as a shock to many. Assad’s […]
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