Why are ties between Azerbaijan and Russia fraying?

By Mansur Mirovalev In 2001, a man was stabbed to death near a lakeside restaurant in Yekaterinburg, an urban centre in Russia’s Ural Mountains region. With his dying breath, he whispered the names of his alleged killers to the police, local media claimed. The man and his presumed murderers were ethnic Azeris, Turkic-speaking Muslims whose […]

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No painkillers to treat Gaza children for ‘extremely painful injuries’

Hospitals in Gaza are “completely overwhelmed; there’s not enough beds; there’s not enough staff to treat them; patients are on the floor”, Hannah Grace Pan, a paediatric nurse volunteer from the UK, tells Al Jazeera. She said many patients and small children are being treated for “extremely painful, explosive injuries and burns with no pain […]

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Intercepted Iranian communications downplay damage from US attack, Washington Post reports

Intercepted Iranian communications downplayed the extent of damage caused by US strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing four people familiar with classified intelligence circulating within the US government. A source, who declined to be named, confirmed that account to Reuters but said there were serious questions about whether the […]

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Norwegian pension fund divests from companies selling to Israeli military

By Yarno Ritzen Norway’s largest pension fund, KLP, has said that it will no longer do business with two companies that sell equipment to the Israeli military because the equipment is possibly being used in the war in Gaza. The two companies are the Oshkosh Corporation, a United States company mostly focused on trucks and […]

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From Iraq to Iran: the US quest for Israeli military dominance – and its fallout

By Tom Hussain As Israeli jets and American bombers streaked across Iranian skies earlier this month, the world watched a familiar game plan unfold – one that had its origins in secret meetings, veiled ambitions and the relentless logic of regional dominance that has haunted the Middle East for generations. The process began decades earlier, in […]

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