Border cops who killed unarmed terror suspects after surrender say they feared harm

The Border Police officers who are under investigation over the fatal shooting on Thursday of two unarmed Palestinian terror suspects in the West Bank’s Jenin, after the latter had surrendered and exited... Read more »

Trump ties Saudi F-35 deal to normalization with Israel

The meeting between Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ended before the cameras with sweeping statements. Trump defended the crown prince when asked by reporters and said Saudi Arabia was his... Read more »

Surge in tribal clashes forces thousands to flee Maysan

2025-11-29T23:09:14+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Tribal conflicts and an expanding drug trade have pushed Maysan Province into one of its most severe security crises in years, forcing... Read more »

Breaking the 9-to-5: Freelancing becomes Iraq’s Gen Z new safety net

2025-11-29T18:18:47+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Rising prices and stagnant wages are pushing a growing number of young Iraqis away from traditional jobs and into freelance work —... Read more »

Legendary British playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died at age 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents... Read more »

Jeremy Corbyn’s troubled new far left party gathers to pick name and leader

Veteran British socialist Jeremy Corbyn called for his new political party to “come together” as he opened its inaugural conference Saturday, as it seeks to move on from a messy launch and... Read more »

Baghdad revisits premiership lineup amid shifts inside ruling bloc

2025-11-29T13:40:20+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad One week after Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court dissolved parliament and reduced the government to caretaker status, the battle over who... Read more »

What the 1945 JNF map reveals about the Israel partition plan

There is a common narrative that shows up in classrooms, on social media, and in graphic “partition maps”  that Jews illegally moved into Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine as outsiders, seized land... Read more »

Arabic Handwriting: A cultural legacy unraveling in the digital age

Shafaq News Once a defining marker of identity and scholarship across the Arab world, Arabic handwriting is now in steady decline. Teachers from Baghdad to Amman and Cairo say they increasingly struggle... Read more »

Lone Star of David: How a short-lived plan saw persecuted European Jews reroot in Texas

When author Rachel Cockerell started a nonfiction book project about her late Jewish grandmother in the UK, the last thing she suspected her research would turn up was a long-forgotten great-grandfather’s involvement... Read more »