Trump used a primetime address to double down on sweeping claims of military success, while threatening to push Iran “back to the Stone Age” and dismissing concerns over its nuclear stockpile.

Saharan dust and a powerful storm swept Greece, disrupting flights, halting ferries, and flooding homes east of Athens and along the coast. Crete, Santorini and Rhodes were lashed by strong winds under red skies. At least one person was killed near Athens.

A US visa policy requiring deposits of up to $15,000 per person is placing the 2026 World Cup out of reach for many Algerian fans, with costs equivalent to several years of income.

In France’s 2026 local elections, colonial-era racial anxieties were used to undermine political representation & frame wins as threats, writes Amel Boubekeur:

Trapped between a new Israeli military barrier and expanding settlements, Palestinian farmers in the Jordan Valley are being forced to flee their homes:

As Israeli strikes on Lebanon intensify, thousands of Syrians are fleeing back to Syria, returning to ruined homes and facing harsh crises after years in exile:

Under the decision, any memoranda of understanding or agreements with international organisations now require prior approval from the Syrian foreign ministry:

About half of all Iran's ballistic missiles launched at Israel in this conflict have carried cluster warheads, turning one missile into dozens:

As the conflict between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other escalates, its effects are increasingly being felt across the besieged enclave:

The much-hyped national address delivered a familiar mix of contradictions that showed a US president increasingly detached from reality:

Under a US "Visa Deposit Pilot Programme" applied to 50 countries, citizens of the listed nations must post between $5,000 and $15,000 as a visa deposit:

And Arabs and Persians are the extremist lunatics?

Munther Isaac, a Palestinian pastor, describes this performance by Franklin Graham, an American evangelical, as "court religion".

In the 1960s, the UK forcibly expelled the Chagossian people from Diego Garcia to make way for a UK-US military base. Today, the island has caught our attention because Iran may be targeting it with ballistic missiles. Yet the island’s indigenous inhabitants still petition for their right to return.

Israeli settlers are increasingly using a tactic known as “fencing” to seize Palestinian land across the occupied West Bank, enclosing plots without formal confiscation orders and gradually expanding control.

An artist sent “A Message in Red,” standing outside the Norwegian Parliament dressed all in red with a hanger around her neck to protest Israel’s death penalty law against Palestinian prisoners.

The White House continues to hold prayer services that pedal Christian fundamentalist narratives. This time, evangelist Franklin Graham said that President Donald Trump, like the biblical figure Esther, was “raised up” by God to save the Jews from “these Islamic lunatics.”

Progress in implementing the Gaza ceasefire deal is also largely contingent on de-escalation with Iran and renewed high-level diplomacy, analysts said:

'Fencing' has become common among Israeli settlers in the West Bank to arbitrarily extend control over Palestinian land at minimal cost:

This seems to be a new policy, goes hand in hand with execution of prisoners. Israel at some point will internalize this violence and practice it against its own citizens.

Last week, Jawad Abu Nasser was kidnapped by Israeli forces last week, and tortured in front of his father to force a confession. Speaking exclusively to The New Arab, his mother Waad shares the harrowing account of Jawad's ordeal and the devastating changes in his health: youtu.be/3TGa1GxAqI8?...

The leaders of Britain's largest pro-Palestine movement were found guilty of all charges over a march on 18 January last year:

Canada condemns Israel's "illegal invasion" of Lebanon as a violation of territorial sovereignty, Prime Minister Mark Carney has said. Using stronger language than his government has to date, Carney also called for a ceasefire to end the worsening conflict as Israeli troops move deeper into Lebanon

In the Syrian capital, the sale of alcohol has become a flashpoint for wider discussions about regulation, social norms, and the limits of state power:

Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham, two leading pro-Palestine activists in the UK, have been found guilty of public order offences in a case that campaigners and observers say raises serious concerns about the policing of protest rights:

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa visited Germany and the UK this week, speaking in London about the future of the country amid the US-Israel war on Iran:

Book Club: Azmi Bishara charts how prolonged conflict, sectarian divisions, and political chaos created fertile ground for the Islamic State group's rise:

Israeli plans for “security buffer zones” in the West Bank is already being felt in Palestinian daily life. It's unfolding through land confiscation & the uprooting of trees, particularly olive trees, a vital source of income for many Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, is among the towns most affected:

In a move that could turn the regional conflagration into an inferno, the Houthis in Yemen have entered the Iran war by resuming missile & drone attacks against Israel and threatening to close the vital Bab el-Mandeb Strait Here's what this could mean for the region🔗 www.newarab.com/analysis/hou...

The New Arab visited the Gaza home of Palestinian toddler Jawad Abu Nasser following his release from Israeli detention after he was kidnaped and tortured last week. His mother Waad shares the harrowing account of Jawad's ordeal and the devastating changes in his personality and health since:

Bosnia & Herzegovina's U21 football team refused to shake hands with their Israeli counterparts ahead of a UEFA U21 qualifier, in a rare on-field protest before kickoff. The gesture quickly drew attention online, amid heightened tensions over Israel’s political expression in international sport:

Syrians took to the streets in Daraa and other cities, condemning Israel’s death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners.

Criticism is not limited to the families of the deceased. Some UNRWA employees were dismissed or suspended during the war, leaving many feeling betrayed:

Israel frames its wars as strength, but US dependence & the ongoing occupation of Palestine undermine its claim to true regional power, argues Rami Nasrallah:

From domestic power bargaining to the fragile balancing act with Iran and the US, Iraq will face a set of relationships fundamentally altered by the war:

British pro-Palestinian activists Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham have just been found guilty of public order offences, in what has been described as a chilling measure towards pro-Palestine activism in the UK. Both are now on conditional charge, with Jamal on 18 months and Nineham on 12 months

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made a rare public appearance in Tehran last night, joining crowds during national celebrations The two officials were seen moving through demonstrators without visible heavy security, interacting with people and taking selfies

Protesters gathered in central Amsterdam yesterday to block key routes between Central Station and Dam Square, one of the city’s main arteries, in protest of Israel’s death sentences for Palestinians:

Despite overwhelming firepower and relentless bombing, Israel's ground invasion of southern Lebanon is being slowed by Hezbollah's strategy of attrition:

Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, with 62 members of the Knesset voting in favour. Critics say it reflects a broader political shift, warning it could deepen accusations of discrimination and mark a new stage in Israel’s apartheid:

This, sadistic, cop, Valentina Mantz, you see here, assaulting a protester during the anti-executions protest in front of the Knesset, is under investigation by the police.

“I’m told that Trump has recently stated that he would like to end the war,’’ the pope told reporters as he left the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo yesterday. Pope Leo XIV also urged all world leaders to return to dialogue so that “peace, especially at Easter, might reign in our hearts.’’

A video circulating on social media shows policewomen allegedly assaulting an elderly woman protesting the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Jerusalem.

Iraq has secured their place at the 2026 World Cup finals with a 2-1 win over Bolivia in their Intercontinental play-off final on Tuesday. The marks only second time in history that Iraq has made it to the world’s biggest football tournament. The last time Iraq played in a World Cup was in 1986.

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These Palestinian toddlers, once evacuated as premature babies during the Israeli attack on Gaza’s hospitals in 2023, are finally reunited with their families after two years.

The French government is scrambling to end Lebanon’s second war in two years, amid mounting human and material costs and the looming threat of an expanded Israeli invasion. But France's audacious plan for peace confronts the limits of its own influence 🔗 www.newarab.com/analysis/can...

In Cairo’s historic City of the Dead, a centuries-old necropolis becomes the setting for a rare women-led Sufi Sema ceremony. While women have historically participated in these practices, their presence in public cultural venues remains uncommon:

After waging a war that’s shaken global oil supplies, Trump is now pressuring allies to fall in line - criticising the UK and France while floating the idea that other countries should pay the cost of war.

"Sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war and a systematic means of controlling civilians, in violation of international humanitarian law," Doctors Without Borders said in a new report.