(Photo:Khalid Mohammed/AP) The outcome of Iraq’s parliamentary election in November revealed extremely poor results for parties and coalitions associated with the largely secular 2019 Tishreen movement. While some factions chose to boycott... Read more »
Identity is not fixed. It shifts depending on who is looking and what they expect to see. Ari’el Stachel’s “Other” asks what happens when the world names you faster than you can... Read more »
Shafaq News The arrival of Mark Savaya as US President Donald Trump’s envoy to Iraq has added a new and increasingly visible layer to the debate over the future of armed influence... Read more »
Archives declassified by President Javier Milei this year contain an entire volume dedicated to tracking SS physician Josef Mengele – the Auschwitz “Angel of Death” – as he lived openly in Argentina,... Read more »
2025-12-01T05:58:56+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Iraq’s first national census in almost forty years has delivered a stark demographic verdict: a country adding people faster than it expands... Read more »
Nearly five months after Operation Rising Lion, the severity of the threat Israel poses to the Iranian regime has become deeply internalized. Despite the war’s short duration, it rattled the Islamic Republic... Read more »
Four foreign pro-Palestinian activists — three Italians and one Canadian — were injured Sunday, one of them seriously, in a settler attack near Jericho, the Palestinian Authority’s WAFA news agency reported. Medical... Read more »
Yom HaPlitim, meaning “Day of the Refugees,” is the Israeli national day honoring the 850,000+ Jewish refugees who were expelled from or forced to flee Arab and Muslim majority countries and Iran... Read more »
Shafaq News For more than six decades, popes have walked into the Middle East’s most volatile landscapes, choosing war-torn cities, occupied territories, and fragile states as the front lines of their diplomatic... Read more »
Shafaq News The Middle East is once again on edge, and Iraq finds itself uncomfortably positioned between Iran and Israel as the two regional powers trade unusually sharp warnings. Israeli Defense Minister... Read more »