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Article English IL 2025-09-24 Benny Gantz — “What the World Gets Wrong About Israel” (New York Times op-ed), 24 September 2025
Since Oct. 7, 2023, from my position both in Israel's war cabinet and in the opposition, I have watched how some in the West have misinterpreted Israel's actions in prosecuting its war against Hamas. For Israelis, that day was not another round in a yearslong conflict. It was a strategic rupture — and a reminder of…
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Article English IL 2025-06-13 June 2025 Israel–Iran war (the “12-Day War”; Operation Rising Lion)
On 13 June 2025, Israel launched a large-scale air campaign ("Operation Rising Lion") against Iran, striking nuclear facilities including Natanz, ballistic-missile infrastructure, and senior military commanders; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation was aimed at rolling back Iran's nuclear-weapons…
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Article English SY 2025-01-29 Ahmad al-Sharaa named Syria's transitional president (29 Jan 2025)
On 29 January 2025, Ahmad al-Sharaa was named president of Syria for the transitional period at a conference of the factions that had toppled Bashar al-Assad. He had become the country's de facto leader on 8 December 2024 after the fall of Damascus and was the founder and head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which…
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Article English PS 2025-01-19 Gaza ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal takes effect (19 Jan 2025)
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian factions in Gaza took effect on 19 January 2025, structured in three 42-day phases and mediated by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar. In the first phase Hamas was to release 33 Israeli hostages while Israel released roughly 1,900 Palestinian prisoners, allowed a…
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Article English LB 2025-01-13 Nawaf Salam named Prime Minister-designate of Lebanon (13 Jan 2025)
On 13 January 2025, Nawaf Salam was nominated by 84 of Lebanon's 128 members of parliament, making him prime minister-designate days after Joseph Aoun's election as president. Salam was at the time president of the International Court of Justice, a post he resigned on 14 January 2025 to take up the role. He went on to…
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Article English LB 2025-01-09 Joseph Aoun elected President of Lebanon, ending a two-year vacancy (9 Jan 2025)
On 9 January 2025 Lebanon's parliament elected army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending a roughly two-year vacancy in the post. He secured 99 of 128 votes as a consensus candidate backed by US, French, and Saudi diplomacy. In his inaugural address he pledged to assert the state's monopoly on arms and to pursue…
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Article English SY 2024-12-08 Fall of the Assad regime — opposition forces take Damascus; Bashar al-Assad flees to Russia (8 December 2024)
On 8 December 2024, opposition forces led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured Damascus, ending more than five decades of Assad-family rule in Syria. President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, and the Russian foreign ministry confirmed he had left after resigning; he was granted asylum in Russia. The offensive had…
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Article English LB 2024-11-27 Israel–Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect, ending the 2024 war (27 Nov 2024)
A US-brokered cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah took effect at 04:00 local time on 27 November 2024, ending more than a year of cross-border fighting that had escalated into open war. The agreement set a 60-day initial period during which Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon and…
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Article English PS 2024-10-16 Hamas Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar killed by Israeli forces in Rafah (16 Oct 2024)
Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and chairman of its political bureau, was killed on 16 October 2024 during an encounter with Israeli soldiers in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military announced his likely death on 17 October and confirmed it via dental records,…
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Article English TN 2024-10-06 Kais Saied re-elected President of Tunisia in a low-turnout vote (6 Oct 2024)
Incumbent Kais Saied won re-election in Tunisia's presidential election held on 6 October 2024 with about 90.7 percent of the vote. Official turnout was roughly 28.8 percent, the lowest of any national vote since the 2011 revolution. The contest was marked by the disqualification or imprisonment of several would-be…
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Article English LB 2024-09-27 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs (27 Sep 2024)
Hassan Nasrallah, who had led Hezbollah since 1992, was killed on 27 September 2024 in an Israeli airstrike on the group's headquarters in the Dahiyeh area south of Beirut while leadership were meeting there. Hezbollah confirmed his death on 28 September 2024, saying he had 'joined his fellow martyrs.' A senior…
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Article English JO 2024-09-10 Islamic Action Front becomes the largest bloc in Jordan's parliamentary election (10 Sep 2024)
In Jordan's general election held on 10 September 2024, the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, won 31 of the 138 seats in the House of Representatives, more than any other party. It was the party's strongest result since 1989, with observers linking the gains to its stance on…
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Article English PS 2024-07-31 Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran (31 Jul 2024)
Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas's political bureau, was assassinated in Tehran in the early hours of 31 July 2024 while staying at an IRGC-run guesthouse. He had travelled to Iran to attend the inauguration of newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian the previous day. A bodyguard was also killed. Haniyeh had…
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Article English KW 2024-05-10 Kuwait's Emir Mishal dissolves the National Assembly and suspends parts of the constitution for up to four years (10 May 2024)
On 10 May 2024, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah issued a decree dissolving the National Assembly and suspending several articles of the constitution for a period of up to four years. He said the step was intended to allow a comprehensive review of the democratic process, citing chronic deadlock…
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Article English PS 2023-10-07 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel — 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' (7 October 2023)
On 7 October 2023, Hamas led a surprise attack from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel — which it named 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' — together with other Palestinian armed groups. About 1,200 people were killed in Israel, the deadliest single day in the country's history, and roughly 250 people were taken hostage into…
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Article Arabic SY 2023-05-07 Arab League readmits Syria; Assad attends the Jeddah summit, 7 May 2023
Syria's participation in the Arab League had been suspended in November 2011 over the Assad government's violent crackdown on the country's pro-democracy uprising. On 7 May 2023, meeting in an extraordinary session in Cairo, Arab League foreign ministers adopted decision no. 8914 resuming the participation of Syrian…
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Article English SD 2023-04-15 Sudan war erupts — the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces clash in Khartoum (15 April 2023)
On 15 April 2023, heavy fighting erupted in Khartoum and at military sites nationwide, including the city's airport and the Merowe air base, between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) commanded by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by his deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo,…
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Article English SA 2023-03-10 China-brokered Saudi–Iran agreement to restore diplomatic relations (Beijing), 10 March 2023
On 10 March 2023, after four days of talks in Beijing hosted and mediated by China, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced an agreement to restore diplomatic relations that had been severed for more than seven years. The two governments agreed to reopen their embassies and missions within a period not exceeding two months…
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Article English SD 2021-10-25 Sudan: al-Burhan seizes power in the 25 October 2021 coup, dissolving the transitional government
On 25 October 2021, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan's Sovereign Council, declared a nationwide state of emergency, dissolved the Sovereign Council and the civilian-led transitional cabinet, and detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and several ministers, ending the power-sharing transition established…
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Article English IL 2020-09-15 Abraham Accords signed at the White House — Israel normalizes with the UAE and Bahrain, 15 September 2020
On 15 September 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the US-brokered Abraham Accords at a White House ceremony hosted by President Donald Trump, alongside UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani. The UAE and Bahrain became the…
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Article Arabic IQ 2020-07-20 Ammar al-Hakim — “Historic Opportunity to Build a Strong Iraqi State” (Asharq al-Awsat op-ed), 20 July 2020 (English translation of Arabic)
The conflict of the state and non-state in Iraq began when fundamental changes were introduced to its system of rule. […] We can either have a state or a non-state. It is from this point that a state can begin to take shape and grow. A state based on institutions is the foundation of the Mihrab Martyr's political…
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Article English EG 2020-01-23 Ayman Nour — “Egypt's choice is clear: Democracy – or chaos under Sisi” (Middle East Eye op-ed), 23 January 2020
On 25 January, Egyptians will celebrate the ninth anniversary of the revolution. […] Nine years on, Egypt has become one of the most repressive regimes in the world. Popular anger has reached a turning point, as evidenced by recent protests. […] with more than 60,000 political prisoners, including more than 300 on…
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Article English IL 2019-09-22 Ayman Odeh — 'We Are Ending Netanyahu's Grip on Israel' (The New York Times op-ed, 22 September 2019)
JERUSALEM — The Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel have chosen to reject Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his politics of fear and hate, and the inequality and division he advanced for the past decade. Last summer, Mr. Netanyahu declared that Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up a fifth of the…
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Article English SD 2019-04-11 Military ousts Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir after mass protests, 11 April 2019
Protests that began in December 2018 over rising bread prices and a collapsing economy widened into a nationwide movement demanding the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled Sudan for 30 years. On 6 April 2019 demonstrators began a mass sit-in outside the army's general command headquarters in…
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Article English SA 2018-10-02 Killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, 2 October 2018
Jamal Khashoggi — a Washington Post columnist and prominent Saudi critic — was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by a team of Saudi agents. Saudi Arabia initially denied any knowledge of his fate, then acknowledged he had died inside the consulate, describing it as the…
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Article Hebrew IL 2017-09-07 Bezalel Smotrich — 'Israel's Decisive Plan' (Hashiloach, 2017; English translation of Hebrew original)
The "two-state" model has led Israel to a dead end. It has brought a sense of despair of ending the conflict, and a turn to "managing" it as a cruel and eternal decree of fate. The alternative to this is a new readiness of Israeli society to win the conflict, rather than merely managing it—a victory founded on the…
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Article Hebrew IL 2017-09-01 תוכנית ההכרעה: המפתח לשלום נמצא בימין (The Decisive Plan) — Bezalel Smotrich's programmatic essay (the Religious Zionist Party line)
מודל "שתי המדינות" הביא את ישראל למבוי סתום: ייאוש מאפשרויות סיום הסכסוך ופנייה ל"ניהול" שלו כגזרת-גורל אכזרית ונצחית. האלטרנטיבה תלויה בנכונות של החברה הישראלית להגיע להכרעה במקום לנהל את הסכסוךהכרעה שעיקרה ההבנה שאין מקום בארץ ישראל לשתי תנועות לאומיות סותרות. את הזהות הלאומית אין לנו יומרה למחוק או לשנות; אבל את…
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Article English IQ 2013-04-28 Tier 2 State of Law-led (Maliki) government's press-freedom record: the Communications and Media Commission's 28 Apr 2013 suspension of 10 satellite channels (incl. Al Jazeera), targeting opposition/pro-Sunni outlets after their Hawija-raid coverage — HRW found no legal basis (arbitrary). Documented by Human Rights Watch (30 Apr 2013); corroborated by CPJ.
The official Communications and Media Commission suspended the licenses on April 28, 2013, amid spiraling violence and anti-government demonstrations in Sunni-majority provinces. The license suspensions targeted exclusively opposition stations while leaving others like state-run al-Iraqiya channel free to continue…
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Article Arabic TN 2012-03-26 Tier 2 Ennahda's March 2012 decision to retain Article 1 of the 1959 constitution unchanged (rejecting sharia as a source of legislation in the new constitution), with leader Rached Ghannouchi framing it as "a victory for the democratic Muslim state" — Al-Masry Al-Youm, reporting the decision announced Mon 26 Mar 2012 (article 29 Mar 2012).
كانت حركة النهضة الإسلامية التي تقود الحكومة في تونس، أعلنت الإثنين أنها قررت الاحتفاظ بالفصل الأول من الدستور السابق كما ورد دون تغيير. نفى زعيم حركة النهضة التونسية راشد الغنوشي، أن يكون قرار الحركة الاحتفاظ بالفصل الأول من الدستور السابق دون تغيير، والذي ينص على أن «تونس دولة حرة، مستقلة، ذات سيادة، الإسلام دينها…
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Article English PS 2002-01-16 Marwan Barghouti — "Want Security? End the Occupation" (Washington Post op-ed, 2002)
The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. Israelis must abandon the myth that it is possible to have peace and occupation at the same time, that peaceful coexistence is possible between slave and master. The lack of Israeli security…
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Article English PS 1993-09-13 Oslo Accords — Israel-PLO mutual recognition & the Declaration of Principles (September 1993)
In an exchange of letters dated 9 September 1993, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that "The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security," accepted UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and declared that "the PLO renounces the use of…