The stream of high-level US officials arriving in the region underscores the importance US President Donald Trump places on advancing the plan. Israel must now navigate a delicate balancing act: on one... Read more »
Shafaq News – Erbil Renas H. Salim (pseudonym), a Yazidi teacher in Duhok, often reminds her pupils that “languages are bridges you can walk across,” a lesson vividly illustrated last Nowruz when... Read more »
Israel’s parliament has voted to give preliminary approval to a bill to impose Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, in a move tantamount to annexation of the Palestinian territory, which would... Read more »
“Contacts between Israel and Saudi Arabia regarding normalization have never ceased, though the process remains gradual and deliberate.” This assessment comes from Dr. Nirit Ofir, a Middle East expert and lecturer at... Read more »
Shafaq News – Baghdad Just twenty days before Iraq’s parliamentary elections, National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji landed in Tehran leading a high-ranking delegation on a visit that combined diplomacy, security coordination, and... Read more »
“Imagine,” American Rabbi Marc Schneier remarked, “that the spiritual center of Islam were to normalize with the spiritual center of Judaism – how that would resonate throughout the Islamic world.” This describes... Read more »
Over 130 countries across the world have placed limits on international and foreign-funded NGOs, as donor fatigue and shifting geopolitical priorities take hold, global funding is reallocated with INGOs and major UN... Read more »
Arie Zalmanowicz, 86, one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz who was taken alive but killed in Hamas captivity, was brought back Monday to Israel together with Staff Sergeant Major (res.)... Read more »
JTA — A children’s museum housed on a US military base canceled a planned storytime reading celebrating the life of a pioneering 19th-century female Jewish cyclist earlier this year, after the book... Read more »
Shafaq News A single sentence by US President Donald Trump during a summit on Gaza in Sharm El-Sheikh unexpectedly shifted the focus to Iraq: “Iraq is a country full of oil… but... Read more »