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The geopolitical stakes of Damascus's support for the resistance According to Israel, Syria is the key weapons transportation hub for the Resistance – and has simultaneously withdrawn from the Axis to save itself. By Mohamed Nader Al-Omari
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Pro-Palestine protester shuts down reporter's question about October 7 with a perfect answer.
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Palestinian flag flown from the Tower of Pisa in Italy.
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BREAKING | Netanyahu gave the orders to wipe out an entire neighborhood in southern Beirut from the UN headquarters in New York.
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Friends of Palestinian content creator Medo (Mohammad) Halimy reported on social media that the 19-year-old has succumbed to his wounds after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza left him in a coma. Halimy made videos documenting his daily life during the genocide and was determined to
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"I've been martyred, right?" After 9 months of detainment in Israeli prisons – better described as torture centers – 37 year old Moaziz Abayad was released in shocking condition, revealing the inhumane conditions imposed on Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli occupation. His
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New footage from October 7 shows Israeli tank firing at settler homes in Kibbutz Be'eri
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Israeli delegation expelled from the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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WATCH an explosive device detonate on an Israeli settler who tries to remove a Palestinian flag from a settlement northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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BREAKING | World Food Programme temporarily suspends activities throughout Gaza after one of its vehicles was hit by at least 10 bullets.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: "Earlier this evening, we exercised self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, targeting solely military & security sites in charge of genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. We did so after exercising tremendous restraint for almost two
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"Do your 'Free Palestine,' do all your crying ... We will destroy you!" Israeli Channel 14 host Shai Golden says, adding that Israel is prepared to "fight with the United States and the whole world too."
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Breaking News: Iran announces the completion of the first transport of Russian goods to India through the International North-South Corridor (INSTC)
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“You murderer, get out of here!” Syrian Druze residents of the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights expel Israeli Finance Minister and other members of the Likud (Netanyahu’s party) from the funeral of the 12 youths who were killed after a missile fell on a
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Taliban successfully eradicates poppy cultivation
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🇾🇪 BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces claims the unprecendented drone strike on Tel Aviv near US embassy office, which resulted in one death – using new drone called 'Yafa' that bypasses Israeli systems – and declares the city unsafe from this moment on.
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New footage of a US military convoy smuggling stolen oil out of Raqqah, Syria. The US army has been consistently looting the country's oil and smuggling it into their Iraq bases. Washington steals over 80 percent of Syria's oil output per day MORE
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Israel claims that the baby crib presented to Elon Musk during his visit to the kibbutzim in the Gaza Envelope was "caught in the middle of a Hamas attack with a child inside." After analyzing the footage, the Turkish Communications Center for Combating Disinformation determined
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The origins of some of today's Israeli officials and diplomats.
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The Associated Press has published footage of a Ukrainian unit commander wearing an ISIS patch in the Donetsk region.
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The US military and its Kurdish allies steal 80% of Syria’s daily oil production and smuggle it into Iraq for distribution. Here's how they do it: MORE
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EXECUTED IN COLD BLOOD | Horrifying footage aired by Al-Jazeera shows the Israeli army's cold blooded execution of two unarmed Palestinians on Al-Rashid Street, Gaza City, trying to head further north. Despite the fact that they were unarmed, waving flags and raising their hands
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In a display of power, Yemeni army walks over US and Israel's flags
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BREAKING | An Israeli settler was killed in a resistance operation after trying to enter Qalqilya, where just yesterday, Israeli special forces assassinated 2 Palestinians after infiltrating the market area. The local resistance opened fire on the settler and then set his
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BREAKING: Yemeni Armed Forces announces that it will prevent the passage of ships heading to Israel of any nationality, if food and medicine do not enter the Gaza Strip.
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Israel army killed its own ‘civilians’ during Hamas operation, says survivor In a now censored interview broadcast by Israeli state radio and translated by Electronic Intifada, Israeli settler and survivor of the resistance’s offensive Yasmin Porat said that Israeli forces shot
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Speaking with Haaretz, Israeli reserve pilot Col. Nof Erez describes Israeli army's response to Oct. 7 as "MASS HANNIBAL." The Hannibal Directive orders the army to kill their own to prevent them being taken captive.
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Iraq bans US dollar transactions in latest move towards ‘de-dollarization’
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Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 27 November that the Israeli army dismissed two officers – one of them a commander – for withdrawing from the battlefield after being ambushed by dozens of Palestinian resistance fighters. The report noted that half of the soldiers
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BREAKING | 8 Israeli soldiers burned to death after the resistance in Gaza targeted and destroyed their troop carrier 'Namer' with an ATGM, according to Israeli media.
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The US refuses to withdraw its troops from Iraq and insists on retaining total control over Iraqi oil revenues. This is how the Americans humiliate Iraq every single day. @snarwani Watch on YouTube:
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BREAKING | Drone strike reported near the US consulate in Tel Aviv.
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Syria intends to join BRICS, SCO
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Times have changed.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani announces an air and land bridge to transport aid and facilitate fuel delivery to Lebanon.
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#OnThisDay in 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell lied to the UN Security Council about Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction' to make a case for the US invasion. His unfounded claims and assertions resulted in the loss of over 1,000,000 Iraqi lives.
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BREAKING | US-UK warplanes bomb the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
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Israel implemented 'mass Hannibal' directive on 7 October: Israeli pilot Col. Nof Erez says the Israeli military likely killed its own civilians in multiple instances on 7 October to prevent them being taken back to Gaza as captives of Hamas
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Hezbollah field source to Al-Mayadeen: More than 80 Israeli officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and approximately 5 Merkava tanks destroyed in the battles on the front lines in southern Lebanon today.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has said he "will not ask for forgiveness" over his country's 132-year-long colonization of Algeria and its role in the war of independence, which saw French troops kill approximately 1.5 million Algerians.
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Michelle Bolsonaro, wife of losing candidate and former president Jair Bolsonaro, showed up to the polling booth in an Israel t-shirt. On the other hand, Brazil's new President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has been seen sporting the Palestinian Kuffiyeh on several occasions.
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How Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival New evidence points to Israeli security forces, not Hamas, for causing the most fatalities at the music festival. By @WVanwagenen
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Israeli media, not Egypt, has revealed the identity of the border officer who infiltrated south of Israel and killed 3 Israeli soldiers on the morning of 3 June.
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BREAKING: The Israeli army bombs Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank after storming it and clashing with Palestinian resistance.
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BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces release scenes blowing up the Greek-flagged 'Sounion' in the Red Sea for violating the ban on sailing to Israeli ports.
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New footage from 26 September showing a US convoy, roughly 2 kilometers long, looting Syrian oil near Qamishli, moving east towards the Semalka border crossing and heading for Iraqi Kurdistan.
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The former Palestinian prisoner Wafa Jarrar has died from wounds she sustained during her arrest and detention at the hands of Israeli forces. Jarrar was arrested from her home during the Israeli military’s invasion of the Jenin camp on 21 May. She sustained severe injuries
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BREAKING | The downing of yet another US MQ-9 drone by the Yemeni Armed Forces in Marib.
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Meanwhile, in West Asia...
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Saudi Aramco signed a $12.2 billion agreement with China to build an oil refinery
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Imran Khan acquitted in 'cipher case' A Pakistani court has overturned a 10-year sentence against former PM Imran Khan for allegedly “leaking official secrets” in the so-called Cypher Case. This pertains to a diplomatic cable Khan made public in 2022 that showed the US State
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BREAKING | Heavy exchange of fire ongoing on the border between Hezbollah and Israel after Hezbollah targeted and destroyed an Israeli military vehicle, resulting in one death and 6 injuries. Hezbollah then re-targeted the site in order to obstruct Israel's evacuation of
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BREAKING | The Gaza Government Media Office announces that it has received information about several children being among those executed at Al-Shifa Medical Complex. This comes following reports that the Israeli army executed at least 50 civilians in cold blood and kidnapped
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Israeli media reveals: 50 year old Yevgeni Perder from Belarus, who previously served as a sniper in the Israeli military reserve forces, was the man killed in the Yemeni Armed Forces' unprecendented drone strike on Tel Aviv.
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BREAKING | Hebrew Channel 12: Head of the Shin Bet says Israel is holding 21,000 Palestinian prisoners, a number much higher than the previously reported number of around 9,088.
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BREAKING: Israeli settlers flee southern Israel as Gaza resistance fighters invade the settlements.
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THE US NOW WANTS A 'DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION' FOR YEMEN: US Special Envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, said on Wednesday that the US is seeking a diplomatic solution for the Yemeni Armed Forces' blockade of the Red Sea. This takes a turn from current US policy that has sought to solve
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Map of African countries that have signed military agreements with Russia
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Putin assured Erdogan that Russia would be able to provide grain for free on the condition that it is delivered to underdeveloped countries in Africa. MORE
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BREAKING | footage of an impact in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv.
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Meta has permanently banned The Cradle on Instagram and Facebook for covering West Asia fearlessly, with nuance and accuracy. We view this as a blatant attack on free speech and journalism. The Cradle will continue its reporting mission, unimpeded. Follow us on X, Telegram,
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BREAKING | Hezbollah fires missiles towards central Israel. Hebrew media: Around 2 million Israelis went into shelters.
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Malaysia | Video of Mossad agents arrested in Malaysia MORE
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According to Israeli media, an "unusual" incident in the Gaza Strip has led to many casualties in the army. Footage of military helicopters landing at hospitals following the incident in Gaza is circulating on social media. Israeli media reports that 5 helicopters carrying
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Israeli media falsely quoted former Israeli captive Noa Argamani as saying that Hamas beat her all over body and cut her hair while she was in captivity, during a meeting with G7 embassy representatives in Tokyo. She later took to social media to clarify: “They didn’t beat
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Saudi Major General Ahmed Al-Debais bids farewell to the Iranian charges d'affaires Hassan Zarangar after a meeting at Jeddah's King Abdullah Airbase.
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BREAKING: Israel launches airstrikes on the outskirts of Damascus
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Despite the World Food Programme's coordination with Israel in Gaza, and that its vehicle was marked and cleared by Israeli authorities, it was directly hit by Israeli gunfire as it was moving towards an Israeli army checkpoint.
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#OnThisDay US soldiers aboard an apache helicopter murdered a group of Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, including two Reuters journalists, Namir and Saeed.
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Saudi Arabia welcomes naval security alliance with Iran
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Land of the Free.
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China, Palestinian Authority announce ‘strategic partnership’
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WATCH | Two Qassam Brigades fighters target an Israeli Merkava tank with two 'guerilla action' explosive devices at zero distance, in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah.
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WATCH | Hezbollah targets Israel's Iron Dome in Ramot Naftali military base.
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Israeli army strips Palestinians naked on the streets of Gaza. Photos and videos circulating in Israeli media show captured Gazans without clothes being held/transported by the military.
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Today, a US convoy of 148 vehicles smuggled 80 tankers of stolen oil from Syria into Iraq.
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BREAKING NEWS: Arab League readmits Syrian government after 11 year absence
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Israeli drone pilots targeted own settlements, bases, civilians on 7 October: Report
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An 'exceptional' resistance operation in the occupied West Bank this morning by Mujahid Barakat Mansour, a retired soldier in the Palestinian President's Guard. One man, up against the Israeli army — who needed an Apache helicopter to stop him.
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