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If talks go well, the death machines will fall silent in West Asia, or at least Gaza, on Sunday. The US and Qatar have reportedly brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war. It’s been a long wait for the misery to end. The killings began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas…
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If talks go well, the death machines will fall silent in West Asia, or at least Gaza, on Sunday. The US and Qatar have reportedly brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war. It’s been a long wait for the misery to end. The killings began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas…
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(The following is an excerpt from Stanly Johny’s ‘Original Sin: Israel, Palestine and the Revenge of Old West Asia’, being published with the permission of HarperCollins India. Based on his multiple reporting visits to the region and dozens of interviews, Johny traces the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.) After the Hamas attack, Israel launched a…
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Damascus has fallen. Once again. One of the oldest cities in the world has fallen. To rise again from its rubble, heralding a new order. In its rise and fall, Damascus has lessons for all civilisations, all rebels, and all regimes. It was in July 2012 that rebels penetrated Damascus, hitherto considered inviolable. Both the…
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Palestinians warm by the fire in the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: Saudi Arabia hosted a summit of leaders from Arab and Islamic countries last week to discuss the Palestine question. The summit demanded…
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In an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine in October 2023, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan wrote, “…Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades… The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank, but in the face of serious frictions, we have…
The Israeli army issued fresh evacuation orders in Beirut’s southern suburbs last evening, after which a series of loud blasts were heard in the area near the airport. Hezbollah is also engaged in ongoing clashes with Israeli troops in the Lebanon border area during ground raids. It said in a statement that Israeli soldiers tried…
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Indian nationals are advised to avoid all non-essential travel to Iran, MEA said. (Representational) New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs expressed deep concern over the escalating tensions in West Asia, involving Israel, Iran, and Lebanon, and asserted that “it is important that this conflict doesn’t take a wider regional dimension.” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal…
Israel broadens the war in Gaza with an air attack on Lebanon, is the crisis in West Asia about to escalate? And as the one year mark since the October 7 terror attacks approaches, PM Modi meets the Palestinian President. Has India’s position shifted at all? This is High-Level week at the UN, and the…
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Watch: What’s Hezbollah, and why is the militia permanently at war with Israel? Fuad Shukr, the ‘ghost’ commander of Hezbollah, was killed on July 31 in an Israeli strike in Beirut. Shukr was the seniormost Hezbollah commander killed by Israel in the 10-month long war. Hezbollah had vowed to avenge Shukr’s death. In the early…
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